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Drag Race and elsewhere that a good drag queen has to be able to do it all, still not appreciate the loads of talent involved.“I think a lot of queens try to answer this,” Monét continues. “Is it the gay thing? Why is it that folks do not value the immense talents and contributions that drag queens have made to the industry? I don’t understand why they don’t see the value and how fucking incredible it is.”While frequently expressing her gratitude for the opportunities her talents as a drag performer have earned her, especially since co-winning Drag Race All Stars Season 4, Monét also spoke of her frustration that drag queens often are not being appreciated for the artists they are.Particularly in the music arena, which is packed with Drag Race alums pumping out club tracks, perceptions appear to be extremely limited in what kind of music the market wants from drag queens.
But Monét — whose first album, the EP Unapologetically, dabbled in dance and disco, with flourishes of her classically-trained operatic range — is hoping to shift perceptions with her latest, a straight-up R&B album, Grey Rainbow, Volume 1.Recorded entirely with producer Mr. International, the project reunited Monét with her Unapologetically songwriting collaborators Eritza Laues and Cannon Mapp to craft songs built around her life in love and lust.
“The three of us, we wrote and did all these songs and melodies together,” Monét explains. “Just the three of us, and International gave us all the tracks.”And in the process, Monét, who’s definitely no stranger to recording — she and bestie Bob the Drag Queen have recorded countless eps of their popular pod Sibling Rivalry — discovered a whole new love for recording.“Our process was just so dope,” she
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The Hollywood Reporter, she considered it, thinking: “‘Well this is something I can tell my grandchildren about.'”“Obviously she told them anyway.”Per the review, the documentary then cuts to von Furstenberg’s “grown granddaughter saying that turning those two down at the height of their fame was a ‘really epic’ move.”Von Furstenberg’s documentary premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 5. It debuts on Hulu June 25.In it, the Belgian fashion designer talks about splitting from husband Prince Egon von Furstenberg of Germany in 1983 after 14 years of marriage.“Divorce for me was freedom,” she says in the doc, per THR.Von Furstenberg also looks back on partying at the iconic New York City nightclub Studio 54 when she became single.“I was with Warren Beatty and Ryan O’Neal on the same weekend,” she recalls.
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Michaela Zee “Fallen Idols” delves into the accusations and controversies surrounding Backstreet Boys member Nick Carter and late pop singer Aaron Carter. The Investigation Discovery docuseries introduces three women who claim they were sexually assaulted by Nick: Melissa Schuman, a singer best known for being a member of the girl group Dream; Ashley Repp, a former friend of Nick’s sister Angel; and Shannon “Shay” Ruth, who was the first woman to file a sexual assault lawsuit against him in December 2022. The four-part docuseries also provides insight into the Carter family — consisting of parents Robert and Jane and children Nick, Leslie, Angel, Bobbie Jean and Aaron — which was plagued with a series of tragedies: Leslie died at age 25 from a drug overdose in 2012; in 2022, Aaron drowned at age 34 under the effects of alprazolam, a generic form of Xanax, and inhaling difluoroethane; and Bobbie Jean died from a drug overdose at age 41 in 2023.
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