This is how a pop star lip-sync showdown is paying out big for local queens 🎤
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To help level the playing field, Ottav and her fellow NYC queen Blake Deadly started ongoing series of lip-sync competitions in Brooklyn called Read My Lips – and they're putting their money where their lipstick-caked mouths are. While plenty of local drag competitions crown winners for various titles year-round, the person who rises to the top of Read My Lips walks away with $1,000 that night.
And it's not just the competitors putting their necks on the line. While Blake and Nicky secured a sponsor for the first two editions of Read My Lips , concerns over logistics and creative control lead them to take on the economic onus moving forward. Under their current model, the door fee ostensibly pays for the winner's cash prize, but if the total comes up short, they're stuck footing the bill. "It’s risk and reward for us too," Nicky laughs.
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