RuPaul "You Better Work /Supermodel" on Arsenio
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This camera quality is better than the camera quality on season 1 of drag race x
Goooooorl hahahahhaha
Shaaaaadeeee
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hahahahha just for facts!
And season 2 ... and 3 .... and probably 4 and 5
Arsenio Hall deserves so much respect for advocating this in 1993.
He's a 90s Icon
Facts! And these white gays tried to call him homophobic.
🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
Honey... Ed Sullivan put a drag queen on singing live in 1970
Thanks for the bare minimum Arsenio Hall!
legs for century
Ruru Charles legs for the Gods you mean!😉
Great legs AND a great giggle!!🤩
Yes the legs are something. But I was worried all the time because of this dress.
The gay clubs went absolutely mad over this in 1993
Ooooh yes they sure did. I remember seeing Mama Ru perform live at Studio One in West Hollywood.
Saw her in Orlando back then. Her hair nearly touched the ceiling!
Reminds me of the Brass Connection in Seattle. Unfortunately it is now a 7 story apartment building! 😢😢
Yes it got tiresome after about a month
I met her in 1992 when she was promoting this song in DC
It blows my mind this is from 1993. The gay community dont give Ru enough credit. Not with all these young gays watching drag race and thinking that's all she's done.
agreed
And they have the nerve to call her rude and transphobic and everything else. Kids these days don't do their homework.
@@deshaunx776 I mean make transphobic comments and you'll get called transphobic. Simple.
its a different time honey these young gays today are just living for what now its not a bad thing its just reality
@@askiavance3281 It isn't that simple. Ignorant of modern cultural perspectives? Sure. Transphobic? Not at all. Save that for those who ban transgender people from military service. Ru is almost 60 years old and has been a pillar of the LGBT community since it was just called "LGB" or the "gay community". A good portion of the people he started with are dead. Many of the terms we use today have been around for decades, but had different meanings which result in differing attitudes. You all watch Paris is Burning or The Queen (1968) and feel so culturally "informed", but most of those queens had views that would make RuPaul's so-called "transphobia" seem progressive. Instead of shaming people for their modern ignorance, learn your *history* and try to educate them moving forward. Simple.
No splits. No deathdrop. No nothing. Oh Mama Ru just relied on that body!
No shade lol but it's not a deathdrop, it's called a dip hehe
Stanley B I thought it was a layout.
@@mykel1990 no, it derives from the ballroom culture. Voguing.
the AARP don't cover death drops
@@erickscherzy1903 look up death drop or dips
This is why she’s mama
I remember this. At that time many people didn’t even know what a drag queen was and thought RuPaul was even a real woman. This song was huuuuge in the 90’s
Rupaul actually sounds amazing live!! Amazing
Jae Jeter AGREED!
I thought he was only using auto tune. I'm impressed
My first time watching this, and I am impressed by his live vocals.
Iknow rite!
uh you guys realize he's lip syncing to his own song right? I mean it is his voice but for a live performance like this, it'd be impossible to do it totally live over the track, and the sound of the audience, hell just look at when they do the chorus, he'll say the one part but you'll hear the other part that he's supposed to be singing but his mouth isn't moving. It's not Millie Vanille or anything, more like Ashlee Simpson on Saturday Night live.
I didn't realize this way back then, but major props to Arsenio for using correct pronouns when introducing RuPaul for this segment at the time. That's major.
It’s not because everyone called RuPaul a she back then
Ya but Rupaul is a character ... when rupaul undresses he is a he.
@@face2158 RuPaul is not a character. When she undresses, he is a man named RuPaul Charles. What are you trying to say?
Correct Pronouns? I think he was being campy. Rupaul identifies as a man and only does drag for work.
@JC Productions NO darling. Rupaul is a he and sometimes wear dresses and wigs for work but he's still a he!
Before Britney there was Ru giving us this friendly reminder: YOU BETTER WORK BISH.
Of course Ru said it first! Spears copied it from mama Ru
I commend Arsenio Hall for doing this back with no one else would have gay or black people on their late night talk show unless they were big stars like Denzel Washington and Wesley Snipes. So, this is great! Lost it when I saw this back in the day!
Rupaul had her own show in the 90's tho! The barriers she broke were astonishing.
And um if u haven't noticed arsenio is a strong black bro himself..
Tay Made they didn’t.
@Tay Made No one did. Except you.
Bullshit.com missed the point
I so remember the 90’s when people would say “sashay, shante”
Really?
Really?
Really?
Ummmm yes, y’all
Really?
No lipsync, live band.... Damn those days were everything
Rodnarok : Yeah, it was. Glad I lived during a time when it was mandatory for singers to actually have talent. Only a few around these days. Music went downhill sometime after the 2000’s. I grew up listening to the music of the ‘60’s and gained appreciation for music from earlier decades through my parents. I collected music until it became some mixture of fakery, stunts, sampling, and manufactured for the quick hit.
With the exception of a handful, today’s singers don’t really sing...they have enhanced auto tunes, they do not play instruments, charisma is lacking, and all of their marketing must be fabricated. This...to distract from the obvious lack of true artistry. Many, not all, must have feuds, behave badly in public, leak a sex tape, or gain notoriety through some sort of unseemly behavior. Odd, decades ago, celebrities attempted to keep their dirty laundry secret. Not any longer. Having little or no talent is a badge of honor these days. Just look at how many no talent celebrities are millionaires. Kinda says something about the fans IMO. Sorry for the rant, I just miss real music. I miss creativity and innovation, people who could sing live, real talent....
@@gingerp6631Excelente, muy cierto 😅😅😅😅😅😂😂😂😂👍👍👍👍👍😊😊
All legs, no dairy!!
GLAMazon
6 ft 4 inches Tall
Legs on the runway
Ok juju 🐝
What?
You are nasty
When Ru sings, "...alright," between phrases, soooo goooooood.
Ikr
Diana Ross
I was just thinking this. It sounds so good!
@@fifteenfingers Sooo good! Great vocalist!
People don’t realize RuPaul is Beyoncé’s role model, alongside, Tina Turner. Beyoncé is a natural born drag queen. She also influenced Amy Winehouse and Lady GaGa. RuPaul is a vibe! Forever in a Day
I remember her saying she would be a drag queen if she were born as a male lol
Wow, I adore Amy and I'd never heard of that?? When did she say it?
Aaron Gutierrez she never did but if you know celebrities, you can see their influences in other musicians. Like you can see Tina Turner and RuPaul in Beyoncé. You can see Whitney Houston in Brandy. You can see RuPaul in Amy Winehouse, Lady Gaga and Beyoncé. You can see influences of James Brown in Michael Jackson. You can see traces of Michael Jackson in Chris brown, Omarion, Usher, Neyo etc
@@nyehweh Same I adore Amy too! I never knew that either :)
Mini Taetae but what does that have to do with ru
😂😂😂 that one straight man in the audience. He refuses to show that he liked the song
No lip sync like a champ
@Tom Anderson she.. but she is sing live
@@richardlange72 but he ain't trans
@@leoncervantes4276 obviously, you don't understand the culture. One doesn't have to be trans to be called she.
@@richardlange72 well educate me
@@leoncervantes4276 When drag queens are in drag they do not use "He". When in full glam drag they use "she". When out of drag its "he" or "she" - depending on the drag queens gender identity - not all drag queens are men - there are cis and trans female drag queens out there! TL;DR - In drag its "she".
RuPaul opened doors and moved the reality of the gay club kids to the mainstream....He is truly a pioneer. Little Richard was the first and set the tone, Sylvester came along, but no one, and I mean no one has really transcended and moved the consciousness of the world as it pertains to gay men, drag queen and the lot of us like Sir RuPaul...I just cannot say enough about him, his seemingly generous and genuine love and energy is palpable...His sheer force of nature is a gift from GOD. RUPAUL CHARLES IS EVERYTHING!
Harold Smither: Yet, without Little Richard and Sylvester we probably wouldn't have had a RuPaul...
well there was also Divine who was in mainstream movies too
@Asahí DM What on earth are you on about? Infanticide? Paedophilia? Where is your head at boy?!
Pls Divine pay the price,and she was on mainstream media. movied and also song records,rupaul followed her steps
@Asahí DM he mentioned club kids, not children that are drag queens, there's a huge difference XDDD
My GOD was this really 1993? I bet watching this in TV by that time was simply completely...unimaginable!
Yup. I was 13 and it was shown a few months later on cable here in the UK.
It was Amazing! I still remember when it came out. Ru Paul is awesome.
Yeah I was 6yrs old and remember how amazing it was to know this a man dressed a female. My naive 6yr old self really that rupaul was biological female. She really is revolutionary
Eduardo F I don’t know if that’s true people were already use to Madonna pressing the envelope since the 80’s. And in the 80’s sex was more prevalent in the media, movies and music then any other decade.
@@allure7744 It was still shocking.
this needs to happen again
Ru's back must hurt for carrying all of the LGBT community with her charisma, uniqueness and talent ❤🤧
don't forget nerve my friend!
And nerve
Truth AF 🍒
It do take nerve
Ceri Exactly what I was going to say!
There was absolutely nothing like being in a gay club back in the day when the DJ spun this song. I'm straight but had (and have) several gay friends, Back when this song came out I was working in an office where out of say a dozen guys I was the only straight dude. I loved those guys like brothers--they ALWAYS asked me to party with them! They got a kick out of me because I totally accepted them (In the early 90's that was still kind of a novelty--straight men didn't hang with gay dudes too often). Anyhow, one night we went to the late great Club Hippo in Baltimore (THE gay club in that city at the time) and when the DJ played this it was a sight to see!! EVERYBODY hitting the dance floor going crazy!! One of the most fun nights I've ever had in my life and I still have fond memories of it to this day!!
2:36
“WERK THAT RUUUUNWAAAY SAWEEEEETIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE”
Damn, even the background singers were really getting into it! Love it!!!
OMG Rupaul is so Tall!
G.. ya th!nk ?!?!? LoL!
mama Ru is 6'4" I believe, she's a true Glamazon
His legs make him look extra tall but he’s only 6”4
Quang Minh Trần I just saw you said the same thing and I oop
@@lakitisha1 "only" you said :v do you know how tall 6'4" is? unless you're as tall as her and you don't see that something really special. She's literally a giant to people who are under 6'0" tall.
The stage presence of RuPaul ❤ I remember watching this at the age of 7 and becoming a fan of hers. She broke so many barriers especially for black and brown drag queens who had a hard time getting their creativity and artistry notice.
bitch, this live version is EVERYTHING. I love the break chord deviation from the orginal song
Still no Queen alive has EVER reached her level of crossover stardom. Love you Ru!
That would be Boy George.
Nightbird Boy George isn’t/wasn’t a drag queen. He wears makeup and sometimes wear women clothes but he never said he was a drag queen
@@DeathEater-bh3le Make sure you know what you are talking about before you question someone who personally knows Boy George and was part of the New Romantic movement that made him famous. He has always been a drag queen..and is damn proud of it too because it gave him the millions of dollars he enjoys today. And not only did he publicly call himself a drag queen..he did it LIVE on TV when Culture Club won the best new artist Grammy in 1983: th-cam.com/video/12Heo_haz_0/w-d-xo.html
The mic has been dropped.
Nightbird Ok but make sure you attitude before commenting because it makes you look like an asshole. You could’ve said what you had to say without the attitude and without the wack ass “the mic has been dropped” like you just did some shit.
In the US, yes. Around the world there are others....
3:03 Mimi ImFurst was gagging
STOPPDSPPD
LMFAO
I cackled too hard at this
Mama Ru werking IT!
RuPaul was amazing here and no lip sync but I’m wondering if the awkward looking guy at 3:04 and 3:19 received help to overcome his obvious insecurities after this event.
he became a drag queen
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Don't try and deadname her. She's fine, these days. More than fine.
roddo ....I swear if you tell me that was Willam I will die!!
Many straight men found Ru with those legs for days attractive. They just didn't know always how to accept it. But they did as did straight America. As a women he was a goddess. They admired Ru. She was bigger than life back then. And that song was and is hot.
Singing L I V E!!! RuPaul should teach some of the new kids how to do it!
He was singing…over his own recording so it was like he was singing back up vocals live to the original recording which has auto tune that RuPaul even jokes about
I just knew it was possible to be fabulous and down to earth at the same time.
IKR without being a messy queen.
Loving her energy. Is simply GORGEOUS!. And those back singers at 2:15? They're slaying it!.
Back on the day when you had to actually sing and have talent
What about Kylie Minogue....she has no talent but the gays still love her
@@jetsofaqua2206 wtf?? Kylie minogue can sing hun
@@xorock9387 somebody lied to you
@@jetsofaqua2206 girll bye she can clearly sing look at her vocal range videos, I think ur kinda locaaa
@@xorock9387 sure her technique is unmatched 💀
This song played at every fashion show all over the USA. Back then you couldn’t have a fashion show without playing this song 😂
I'm a 27 year old woman and after all these years I've finally decided to sit down and binge watch RuPaul's Drag Race. I knew he was a big deal but I had NO idea it was this serious!!! Giving pioneer realness! YOU BETTA WORK! 💖
kudos to you mama!
2:23 that part just cured my depression
The guy in crowd on 3:19 has "mom come pick me up i'm scared" energy!
💀💀💀 He did have that "I'm scared" look omg.
he looks like a Mudd Club guy quietly judging the house music.
😆
RU-PAUL is sooo FABULOUS
I cant deal with it!!!
That guy in the middle of the crowd like😟 I can’t! I’m screaming🤣
She's so lucky and blessed to have been doing this performance when the rest of us all over the Caribbean had been bullied, targeted and suppressed. I always have a mixture of feelings and emotions. I guess that's where pride comes from. xx
Why is Caribbean not open to fabulousness? Not open to gay culture?
Iconic! I can’t thank enough to Ru Paul for the thousand and thousands of laughs that he made me do every time I saw him. He is a kind human being and so brave too!
U r smokin hot.
William freytes - cheverez 😊
I recently just discover Rupaul. Just amazing human and funny too.
I remember this. The Start of World Domination
That is why she is forever...Queen!
Her video was fantastical for this song too!
When she appeared in the video for "Love Shack!" (B'52's)
I thought who is this Goddess? Those glorious gams in hot pants!
*Not enough attention is given to all the AMAZING music RuPaul has been creating over the years. I'm just discovering it now myself and can't get enough of it! Love you, RuRu!* ❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜 🖤
Nightbird what 👀! You better learn ! 😘🤗
@@styledna24 *It ain't just me baby! Most people just know him from Drag Race and the Supermodel single. But his albums are AMAZING!!!*
her little laugh gives me life
Look at that waistline!😍😍😍
S N A T C H E D
Rupaul has fabulous legs. I'm pleased we got to see them in last seasons RUPAUL DRAG RACE. wich I'm addicted to its best reality show out at the moment I easily see it going to season 20. .
3:03 that white dude was NOT having it
Terrence Morrison 😂😂😂I thought I was the only one who peeped that
She is not fierce
oh I think he recognized there something he desperately tried his whole life to hide
3:18
Probably secretly wants to dress in drag
The confidence and beauty she radiates is so empowering. ♡ I'd kill to be even half as beautiful as Mama Ru. And Arsenio is awesome as always.
Singing live AF and slaying it!!
Ru had the best body of the 90s! True icon. 💜
he was ahead of his time for sure 😍
Yassss Mama Ru‼️
It means so much to me growing up she made feel like I wasn't alone
Mama Ru & Lady Bunny, Lypsynka, Divine all have made a impact one way or another ♡
You forgot the biggest queen of them all..Boy George.
Nightbird true..your right ! boy george was epic ... marilyn & pete burns..as well..im sure there are more...lol
It's been more than 20 years and Rupaul still dances the same (like swaying left and right) lol. It's so iconic that I do it at home often 😂
How Ru sings ‘alright’ sounds amazing!
Wow what an ICON. THE FIRST EVER DRAG SUPERSTAR! Singing LIVE! I was only 2 or 3 when this happened RuPaul's career is longer than my life I couldn't disrespect him even if I wanted to 😭🙏🏾👑❤️💯
The first drag superstar was Divine
@@samlange9423 NOPE. Divine HIMSELF said he was NOT a Drag Queen but just an actor hired to dress like a woman. Try again or just be mad that A GAY BLACK MAN WAS THE FIRST EVER DRAG SUPERSTAR. 💯👑💪🏾
KingCurtisRaye mam, this is a Wendy’s. Calm down
Rambl3On I guess that was supposed to be funny somehow you attempting to emasculate me by calling me “mam” and using some lame reference.. you obviously had nothing better to do than to post a comment so unnecessary and irrelevant because you just couldn’t pass up an opportunity to spread your negativity. how sad for you.
KingCurtisRaye I bet you must be exhausted in life for taking every little thing as a personal attack. Chill out
One of the icons of our lifetime, a true trailblazer, full of sass, love and light; much love for RuPaul!
Now... RuPaul Shantay you Stay
Wonderful Singer and Music.❤👍👍👌👌👌🤩
A real superstar ⭐️
I’m 25 and I’ve always loved this song because it has my name, Shonté or commonly spelled, Shante; Chante.
Ru broke a mold through the whole era! One of the first and originals.
Always was and is a superb entertainer.
An intelligent, talented, beautiful role model.
2019 anyone :-). Classic! Fun days💯
I have one thing to say: "you Betta work b!tch" and with that!.. I'm out.
Star Quality through the ROOF 👏🏾
Born a star. Awesome stage presence. I LOVE RuPaul. Such a sweetheart 💕
Sashay she definitely stays!!!!! Yasssssss Gawd!
Rochelle Koons *shantay
Girl u gotta get that right
Yasss Mama queeeen!
Rupaul was remarkably well accepted cause she’s so beautiful & talented but also what a trailblazer
Rupaul just radiates kindness he seems such a great person to be around
His like adore Delano and Naomi smalls combined when he was young. It blows my mind!
SHANTE SHANTE SHANTE !!!
Wuuuuuu!!!!!
I will always come back to this clip. I LOVE RUPAUL
congratulations rupaul, you are the winner of this week's challenge
Ru Paul's Drag race educated me about an entire culture I knew nothing about
RuPaul is an Icon 😍
Ladies and Gentlemen and all y'all....The 90's!They put in WORK for us to be here today!
THE ORIGINAL DOLL. LIVING for young Mother being ICONIC 😍🤩 she sounds incredible, and somehow still looks even better? Truly a goddess 💕
I am so empowered by RuPaul and the drag community. They teach me everyday that I am a queen. How come no other community has made me feel this way?! Just amazing!
Girl YES! Same 🙌🏽
Still living for it
Rupaul never gets oooooold!
always a snatched queen! Ru was always ahead of his time!
Rupaul: Goddess 🙌🏽
Stunning
she’s so charismatic. amazing performance!!
He*
@@aidenNliam When Drag Queens are in drag they are usually referred to with female pronouns.
That bawdy is WERK❤ THIS IS A CLASSIC
This and the Love Shack video are my fav Mama Ru performances.
I miss Arsenio's show, he was so ahead of the times and was a much more fun watch compared to other late night shows.
Iconic
Queen of the Queen
I pray dude at 3:04 came out of the closet and unto the runway in 6 inch heels like the Queen he always knew he was destined to be! He reminds me of my younger insecure & self-loathing self.
Great clip, thank sharing. I remember reading about when re-invented himself as a hyper-glam, part of which involved studying Diana Ross vids endlessly to channel the diva effect. I think it's fair to say it paid off.
Doing this in 1993! You children better appreciate your mother.
What an awesome trip back through time. That one white dude in the blue striped shirt at the end looked shocked.
I just love Ru’s adlibs