‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars’: Season 5’s Best Lip-Syncs, Ranked

Now that iconic queen Shea Couleé has been crowned the winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars season 5, it is time to look back at the season’s lip-syncs from worst to best.

As opposed to prior All Stars seasons when the two top queens of the week would face-off in a Lip-Sync for Your Legacy, a lip-sync assassin was tapped each week to perform against one top queen of the week.

Lip-sync assassins are former queens who are known to have memorable performances or won a large number of their lip-syncs during a season, eliminating many of their fellow queens.

Note: This list will not include the finale lip-sync against Couleé, Miz Cracker and Jujubee.

Shea Couleé in 2017 | Paul Morigi/Getty Images

7. Miz Cracker vs. Kennedy Davenport – “Fancy”

Nothing was worse this season than seeing Davenport, one of the franchise’s most lauded performers, be relegated to perform a country song. And it’s not that country songs can’t be performed on drag race — they can and some of them are even a great fit! But in the words of Alyssa Edwards, there was some Rigga Morris going on here!

6. Shea Couleé vs. Vanessa Vanjie Mateo – “Open Your Heart”

Though this wasn’t a “bad” lip-sync per se, but many fans just couldn’t get over why Miss Vanjie was brought back as an assassin, as she isn’t regarded as a lip-sync assassin in the fandom. She also didn’t do bad in the performance, but Couleé clearly out-performed her and won this match handily.

5. Jujubee vs. Monét X Change – “Juice”

Jujubee may have been a lip-sync assassin on any other season, but this time, she didn’t know the words to Lizzo’s “Juice.” Still, this was a fun time and Monét X Change’s performance made a lot of us realized that she is actually a lip-sync assassin even if we were confused at first by her showing up. After this, I’m sure a lot of viewers looked up her performances from season 10 and All Stars 4, including her iconic split fake-out from the former.

4. Miz Cracker vs. Roxxxy Andreews – “One Last Time”

Overall, this lip-sync wasn’t that exciting from a wide view of it…but Roxxxy Andrews was here to make it clear that she was going to leave an impact on All Stars 5! She came prepared with all of the gags and literally overshadowed everything that Miz Cracker had to offer.