'Dancing Queen': Alyssa Edwards Doesn't Let Dance Moms Drag Her Down
Alyssa Edwards (née Justin Dwayne Lee Johnson) is a lot.
She has to be; she's a drag queen. Being a lot comes with the lace-front wig. A drag queen who isn't a lot is no drag queen at all; she's food without flavor, art without color, Cher without Auto-tune. It's the difference, more specifically, between a fierce and fabulous queen like RuPaul and that one jock in high school who slapped on a Halloween store wig and stuffed himself into his girlfriend's cheerleading outfit for school spirit day.
Because drag is not the wig, the dress or the makeup. Drag is performance. It's commitment.
Alyssa competed,, where she distinguished herself by the force of her personality, her languid, Southern-fried vowels ("BaAAAack rollllllls?") and her dancing. She joined the pantheon of royalty a few years later when she returned for , got eliminated, came back, became 50% of , and later got eliminated again.
