Although ostensibly a competition to become "America’s Next Drag Superstar," "RuPaul’s Drag Race" has really always sought (and crowned) drag queens who can best expand and carry on RuPaul’s cultural legacy in drag, fashion, and beyond. Perhaps because of the enduring appeal of RuPaul’s music in the 1990s (especially "Supermodel (You Better Work!)", which Kurt Cobain praised as a favorite in 1993), music has become the most hotly contested territory among past "Drag Race" contestants. The manic output of "Drag Race" stars is so strong that pursuing music has become almost a given—indeed, Season 5 winner Jinkx Monsoon even titled her debut album The Inevitable Album. Still, the battle for RuPaul’s musical mantle continues among this slew of potential heirs making music ranging from brilliant to cringe-worthy.

-=-=-=-With Season 7 having just ended, a new mélange of drag acts will soon offer up anything from a joke track to a "serious" full-length album, and so a critical appraisal of all the "Drag Race" divas to-date seems appropriate. Which queen-turned-singer thus far leads the race to become the next "Supermodel" of the music world, and do any of the new girls stack up as true contenders for the RuPaulian crown? Find out below as we run through the best and (often fabulously) worst music unleashed by "RuPaul’s Drag Race" and its family of drag queens turned pop divas.

BEST:

1. Alaska Thunderfuck 5000: "Your Makeup Is Terrible"

If any "Drag Race" diva rivals the immaculate confection of "Supermodel", it is Alaska Thunderfuck with "Your Makeup Is Terrible". In her indescribable voice, Alaska satirizes the dance genre’s formulaic predictability on the song’s bridge, narrating its rhythmic shift as if surprised herself: "Oh my gosh!/ This is the really serious part of the song, do you hear that?/ Oh my god."

Ultimately, "Your Makeup Is Terrible" emblematizes the RuPaulian tradition in Alaska’s ability to bridge the song’s queer, camp elements with pop music aspirations through a club-ready beat that aims to trick mainstream audiences into jamming along as a man in drag exclaims that the listener’s face is busted. Alaska may mock the generic conventions of dance music, but the song succeeds because she nevertheless invests in the dance diva’s glamorous sound—giving us a banger that reps for odd balls while simultaneously catering to the FM sound du jour.

Though Ru made a classic with the "everything looks good on you!" affirmations of "Supermodel", Alaska emerges as the next drag pop star with an entirely different sentiment, a message suited for the millennial queers who grew up with a chorus of reassurance: "Your makeup is terrible."

2. Violet Chachki: "Bettie"