A great many drag performers go for the grotesque. Jinkx Monsoon (a.k.a. Jerrick Hoffer) seems to go for the ironic. I'm pretty well impressed with the presentation (makeup, wig, outfits, etc.), but it's the voice that's most impressive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=X0kLC...
I'm sure it's taken a long time and a lot of observation and practice, not to mention raw talent, but it's hard to argue with the results. Most drag performers lip sync, but this girl can really belt one out on her own, can't she?
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Quite a remarkable voice
but I'm still not sure what I think about drag acts, but one much regarded is Hinge and Bracket who bring a bit of British humour to the subject and who I saw live at a tg gig long before they were famous.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXJbdvs4aXk
Angharad
Drag On!
She is witty! And a great performer! Thanks :-)
The first place I ever found other trans-minded souls was a drag club in Montreal (in 1972). Since I was attending a private boys' school a bus ride away, and daddy didn't pick me up from the library till after his work time, well, I worked up the courage and went exploring: underage, a policeman's kid, and closed hours... in, essentially, a gay club. But the bartender, management and girls were wonderful.
Drag is performance. No act (or performer) will be to everyone's taste, and no art is universally appreciated. Besides, it's a *vulgar* art; drag makes light of the gay life and its troubles as well as the good stuff (sex.) The rude and crude can be unsettling, but with a few beers they're just right. And I got to try on a corset for the first time in a drag club change room, so I was hooked right then and there ;-)
Thanks for the fond memories. (And by the way, one of the jokes I heard was that there was funding of real mammaries with all the fondling of unreal ones - so some of the girls were transitioning too.)
Michelle
Voice is really hard of course
... and it is the one arena where so many T-girls give up on.
Yesterday I had a job interview .... a four and a half hour interview during which I only had no more than a two minute break between 6 different people in a row. It was brutal.
Point is, such marathon talking is very hard on the voice even for a non-voice trained T-girl and to keep voice on track in this sitch without practice is hard. Luckily I am at the point where my voice is pretty instinctive and I only suffered the mildest of irritation as I only had one glass of water despite the interview being held the whole time in an interview room that had very dry and stale air (no AC or air circulation at all!) in it. Reaching this point is a necessity and not a luxury imho and makes life a lot easier. It is worth every bit of effort put into it.
Oh, and as far as working for this company, even if it is in the commercial sector and they offered me the job I may very well decline it as I already have an offer, though unfortunately the offer is also in the defense industry. On top of the tough interview, the company I interviewed with also had a poorly lit cubicle area on top of a post-startup tired looking staff to it, on top of the one hour commute to get to it. *sigh*
Kim
Not bad
Must admit I didn't sit right through though and usually the names alone are enough to make me roll my eyes and walk away. But hey each to their....
There's an absolutely amazing Aussie guy, Paul Capsis that I've seen channel Judy Garland to Janis Joplin and he is simply amazing. Should be on Broadway and he's not your usual Drag Artiste and I think has gone through and past that mostly now. The youtube stuff does not do him justice so I won't link.
Kris