Hjönk :
Technically, Silky has never done a Lip Sync Lalaparuza. All Stars 6 featured a gauntlet style tournament called the RuDemption Lip Sync Smackdown. All Stars 4 featured the first ever Lip Sync Lalaparuza, and then they appear again on seasons 14-18 and All Stars 7 and 9. Every other season that has a similar lip sync tournament calls it by a different name, and those which appear in the finale of a season are typically called a “Lip Sync Smackdown for the Crown,” which is actually what they’re called on All Stars 10 and 11. That being said, I have a hard time finding differences between the Lalaparuza and the Smack Down for the Crown other than the time of the appearances within the season, their overarching purposes, and the number of competitors within each tournament. Actually, I find that the most unconvential of these tournaments are those featured in All Stars 4 and All Stars 6. The Lalaparuza in All Stars 4 isn’t even really a tournament, as each previously eliminated queen battles a currently competing queen to reenter the competition and eliminate the queen against whom they competed. All Stars 6 is a gauntlet or king of the hill style tournament in which the lowest ranking queens compete one on one with the winner moving on to the next round until only one queen remains. These are fundamentally different from the other lip sync tournaments featured on the show which, regardless of title, are all bracket style. All Stars 10-11 and season 18 also technically differentiate from the typical format, as All Stars 10 is a seeded bracket and All Stars 11 and season 18 are ranked brackets.
If you ask me, the first bracket-style lip sync tournament, and also the “reason they are popular” is the Lip Sync Smackdown for the Crown in season 9, as it’s the first ever bracket-style lip sync tournament regardless of its name. It’s also the most groundbreaking and famous, not only because it is the inception of the format but because of the impact that Sasha Velour’s performances had.
2026-07-25 19:24:03