RuPaul posts fake album online: ‘You better don’t, hooker!’
By Nick Levine
RuPaul thwarted illegal musical downloaders last month (February) by sharing a fake album on pirate sites.
The multi-talented drag queen released latest album Born Naked on February 24 and anticipated in advance that it would leak beforehand.
“We work so hard on this music,” RuPaul explained in an interview with Billboard. “So we thought, why not flood the torrents with a decoy album that educates consumers on why it’s important to buy music.”
The fake album features tracks that begin as typical RuPaul dance-pop bangers before they are interrupted by sassy castigations from the world’s most famous drag queen.
On the decoy version of a track called Freaky Money, RuPaul chides: “You done stole my album! Uh uh, no you better don’t, hooker! You better get your tail on over to iTunes, baby!”
The performer – real name RuPaul Andre Charles – then explains: “Hey, who hasn’t illegally downloaded an album? But when it’s somebody that you admire or that you want to support, child! How am I gonna keep my lace fronts on point if I can’t make a living doing what I’m doing with that ‘Freaky Money’?”
Season six of the entertainer’s cult reality show RuPaul’s Drag Race began on US LGBT cable network Logo on February 24, the same day Born Naked came out.
As a singer, RuPaul is probably best known for the 1992 single Supermodel (You Better Work), which cracked the top 40 on the UK’s Official Singles Chart.