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Q. What’s the guaranteed #1 best way to make anyone look more amazing, no matter how fabulous they looked before?

A. Put them in drag!

I must admit, this is both a truth universal and one of my personal favorite music video tropes. A couple of years ago (what?! 2007, where did you go? and how can we bring you back?!) Mouse on Mars and Mark E. Smith of The Fall teamed up to be Von Sudenfed and brought us the sexual & entrancing “Fledermaus Can’t Get It,” the video for which is undoubtedly one of the great achievements of that year. In fact, I think my friend Hilly and I spent most of that year watching it.

I can’t start it without watching it all of the way through, as I’m completely captivated by the various drag personalities taken on by each of the three men. Is she wasted? Is that blue lipstick? If so, where can I get some???

In this vein, the Canadian DJ Silencefiction has recently released a new single, “Lipstique (featuring Fauxnique),” which is a sort of prequel to the Von Sudenfed video. Listen up kids, because this is important: it teaches you how to put on drag makeup (insofar as this can be taught, of course). But again, it’s absolutely fascinating and pretty sexy to watch people put on drag:

The “Fledermaus Can’t Get It” video is great because each of the six characters is clearly such a hot mess-- it’s like watching a sexy trainwreck. The “Lipstique” video is great because you see the evolution of drag, and in the end are rewarded with six fully-transformed characters. And both are great, really, because what’s better than sitting at home on a Sunday morning watching music videos with drag?

Tags: drag, silencefiction, von sudenfed

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