Spoilers ahead!

If you watched the Season 9 finalé of RuPaul’s Drag Race, keep going. If not, turn back now!

Last night the top 4 queens lip synced for the crown and it was RIVETING television! It made me think back to the Season 9 premiere earlier this year in NYC. All of the girls walked the red carpet for the press and then performed for a rabid, wild Drag Race crowd in NYC’s Times Square and the Playstation Theater. At that point THEY knew who the final were. Everything had been shot except the finalé. RuPaul showed up in person that night to introduce the season and then we were given a treat to see them all lip sync. If you’ve never seen the queens perform in person, GO, if/when they come to your city or a city near you.

As you can see by the video clips below, they know how to wow a crowd. Peppermint was carried out in a bubble, Trinity Taylor showed a LOT of sass and ass and Shea Coulee brought us a dose of her Queen bey. And on my Instagram caption, for the video clip I posted, I did use the word “SLAY in reference to the lip sync of the winner of Season 9. The TV audience didn’t get to see Sasha Velour in action until the very end, but at the premiere we were really wowed by her painterly projections of Sia‘s Cellophane.

Watch.