Out of curiosity, why did you decide to not take their advice? You had a rehearsal with Michelle Visage and Dulcé Sloan, where you practiced several jokes that they shot down but that you decided to keep in your final routine anyway.
But I think the bottom three all had similar critiques, so when it came down to the lip-sync, it was like, "Okay we're all three in the bottom and Ru's just going to make a decision." That's just what I was going with. Maybe that's just my humor, maybe I couldn't really think of anything that was going to that next level. I think it was Ross who said were just observations. Go for that." But I hate in a roast when things are too cutthroat, so maybe I was just thinking a little bit too nice. With roasts, they say, "Go for the low-blows. I think that I am comedic when it comes to improv and doing stuff in-the-moment, but writing down a joke? That is a whole other demon, that is a whole other thing to do. In your own words, what happened this week that ultimately led to your elimination? In the end, the beloved DeJa was sent packing.Īhead of her elimination, NYLON hopped on a Zoom call with DeJa Skye to talk about being too nice to roast, the difference between “writing down a joke” and being funny “in-the-moment,” why she didn’t take the advice given to her by mentors Michelle Visage and Dulcé Sloan, whether the Snatch Game was really that bad (and which two queens were slightly better than the rest), and why she wants to be in the World of Wonder franchise for as long as she can.
Though she certainly put up a valiant fight, her performance of Olivia Rodrigo’s “good 4 u” didn’t stand a chance against Daya, who seemed to get the song in a way her competitors didn’t. This week, after being tasked with delivering a standup routine in a Ross Matthews Roast, the queen found her jokes landing on mostly deaf ears, and she landed in the bottom for a three-way lip-sync against her original opponent Daya Betty and the season’s other Lip-Sync Assassin Jorgeous. In subsequent challenges, DeJa failed to impress. Unfortunately, her goodwill started to give out after her long-awaited win. From there, she settled into her own, finding her footing as she consistently landed near or at the top, even if a true win eluded her until the season’s highly-anticipated Snatch Game, when her energetic impersonation of Lil Jon had RuPaul and all her fellow competitors in stitches. RuPaul’s acknowledgement of DeJa’s lip-sync prowess definitely seemed to inspire the queen. Such was the case for season 14’s DeJa Skye, a Fresno, California queen who avoided the “first-queen-out” curse by delivering an infectious, emotional rendition of Alicia Keys’ “Fallin’” that gave her the edge over fellow contestant Daya Betty. But sometimes, it can all be worth it if it ends with RuPaul telling you that you just might be the season's Lip-Sync Assassin. No one wants to land in the bottom on the first episode of a season of RuPaul’s Drag Race.
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