“It was a full suit – it has a vagina, breasts, arms. Slay Ride: 11 Drag Queen Holiday Tunes to Jingle Your Bells I started to weep into my bed, I was like, ‘oh my God it’s so beautiful!’ And then an hour later I was like, ‘well, that did not help me go to bed at all.'” As for “Be Your Own Dentist,” Katya says she’s not concerned about people taking its message to heart: “I’m not worried. And I became incredibly horny, and then I started to cry. “I listened to the Harry Styles one and I was so crazy – it’s this really cheesy poem set to a repeating lullaby melody. One, in particular, left an indelible impact on her. The final track, “Be Your Own Dentist,” is a dead-on parody (“homage,” Katya insists) of the meditation and sleep apps that have become increasingly popular in the pandemic. Somebody told me one of my songs sounded like monsters having sex. And they f–k everybody! They’re bisexual…. They’re absolutely gorgeous, smooth, marble skin. I love the idea of hot goth people working out - goth-leisure.” As for what kind of vampires are pumping iron and hitting the elliptical, Katya says, “I grew up reading Anne Rice books, so I have this idealized, romanticized, androgynous vision of beauty for vampires. The musical concept that won out was “the soundtrack to a late-night gym for vampires. But I love that – that’s a classic drag banger, which is something she does so well. “When we recorded it, she was hesitant about saying the word ‘gash.’ I thought that was so funny because the rest of the song is so vulgar. “So like ‘Come In Brazil’ and ‘Same Parts’ by Tatianna and something by Trixie - I wanted to do a whole bunch of those.” Katya eventually lost interest in that concept, and EP opener “Come In Brazil” ft. “Originally, the idea was I wanted to do a response album to Drag Race songs,” Katya says. It Started Out As a Response-Song Project I didn’t want to do something that was corny. “It doesn’t matter if people like it – if I don’t like it, it’s not happening. “There were opportunities to do many of those and I was like… no. It Was Never Gonna Be ‘Read U Wrote U’ Redux Here’s what you need to know about Vampire Fitness, the debut musical project from Katya featuring guest turns from Alaska and Trixie Mattel, out on Friday, Nov. A mix of grinding club music, electro industrial and Eastern European melodies, Katya says it’s inspired by everything from Russian singer Zivert to Ukrainian dance-pop queen LOBODA to rock bands like Front Line Assembly that she listens to at the gym to “put a steroid up my ass.”
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