About the artist
The Cast of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Season 12 refers to the ensemble of drag performers who competed on the twelfth season of the Emmy-winning reality competition RuPaul’s Drag Race, which aired in 2020. The cast included Jaida Essence Hall, who won the season, alongside Gigi Goode, Crystal Methyd, Widow Von’Du, Sherry Pie, Jan, Heidi N Closet, Brita, Nicky Doll, Jackie Cox, Dahlia Sin, Aiden Zhane and Rock M. Sakura. As is typical of the show, the queens contributed to group recordings tied to the season’s challenges rather than releasing music as a formal musical act.
Songs credited to the cast, such as «I’m That Bitch» and the mock-Rusical piece «Madonna: The Unauthorized Rusical», were produced for on-show performance challenges blending pop and campy rap-inflected vocals, a hallmark of the franchise’s original music segments. These tracks foreground personality and lip-sync-ready hooks over conventional songwriting, mirroring the show’s emphasis on performance and character.
The season is also remembered for its unusual finale format, held partly under COVID-19 pandemic conditions, and for songs like «You Don’t Know Me» and «The Shady Bunch» that became fan favorites within the Drag Race music catalog, a recurring subgenre of pop novelty tracks tied to reality television.