RuPaul Andre Charles is an American drag queen, television personality, act… Read Full Bio ↴RuPaul Andre Charles is an American drag queen, television personality, actor, musician and model. Best known for producing, hosting and judging the reality competition series RuPaul's Drag Race, he has received several accolades, including 12 Primetime Emmy Awards, three GLAAD Media Awards, a Critics' Choice Television Award, two Billboard Music Awards and a Tony Award.

Born and raised in San Diego, California, RuPaul later studied performing arts in Atlanta, Georgia. He settled in New York City, where he became a popular fixture on the LGBTQ+ nightclub scene. He achieved international fame as a drag queen with the release of his debut single, "Supermodel (You Better Work)", which was included on his debut studio album Supermodel of the World (1993). He became a spokesperson for MAC Cosmetics in 1994, raising money for the Mac AIDS Fund and becoming the first drag queen to land a major cosmetics campaign. He later received his own talk show on VH1 called The RuPaul Show, which he hosted for over 100 episodes while co-hosting the morning radio show on WKTU with Michelle Visage.

RuPaul's Drag Race was created in 2009 and has gone on to produce fourteen seasons in the United States. The show has also seen success internationally, with several international variants of the show being made, such as RuPaul's Drag Race UK and Canada's Drag Race. This has also inspired several spin-offs of the main show, including RuPaul's Drag U, RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars, and RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race. He is also featured as a host on other reality television series such as Skin Wars, Good Work, and Gay for Play Game Show Starring RuPaul.

RuPaul has made appearances in films such as Crooklyn (1994), The Brady Bunch Movie (1995), To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995), But I'm a Cheerleader (1999), television shows such as Girlboss (2017), Broad City (2017), and Grace and Frankie (2019). He later created and starred in his own Netflix original television series AJ and the Queen (2020). In addition, he has also published three books: Lettin' It All Hang Out (1995), Workin' It! RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style (2010), and GuRu (2018).

RuPaul is considered the most commercially successful drag queen in the United States. For his work on RuPaul's Drag Race, he has received 12 Primetime Emmy Awards, becoming the most-awarded person of color in the history of the Primetime Emmys. Outside of film and television, he also continues to write and record music; he has released fourteen studio albums as of 2022, and received a Tony Award for Best Musical as a producer for the musical A Strange Loop.

Fly Tonight
RuPaul Lyrics

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Here
No one could ever deny
Oh! Here
Gravity takes to the sky

Daydreams not enough for us
We can't hide behind this feeling
Losers find a place for love

Up above the clouds

Take me up
Wanna fly tonight
Take me up
Gonna fly tonight

Take me uh, uh, uh up
Woah oh oh
Woah oh oh
We can fly tonight
Woah oh oh
Woah oh oh
Woah oh oh
We can fly tonight

You (yeah you)
You and I see eye to eye
You (yeah you)
Show me that truth is a lie

Daydreams not enough for us
We can't hide behind this feeling
Losers find a place for love
Up above the clouds

Take me up
Wanna fly tonight
Take me up
Gonna fly tonight

Take me uh, uh uh up
Woah oh oh
Woah oh oh
We can fly tonight
Woah oh oh
Woah oh oh
Woah oh oh
We can fly tonight

Nothing, nothing, really matters
We're taking off, let's go get lost
Nothing, nothing, really matters
We're taking off, let's go get lost
Take me higher, and higher
We're taking off, off, off, off

Take me up
Gonna fly tonight
Take me up
Gonna fly tonight
Take me up
Wanna fly tonight
Take me up
Gonna fly tonight
..night, night, night..

Take me uh, uh uh up
Woah oh oh
Woah oh oh
We can fly tonight
Woah oh oh
Woah oh oh
Woah oh oh
We can fly tonight

We fly tonight, we fly tonight, we fly tonight
We can fly tonight
We fly tonight, we fly tonight, we fly tonight
We can fly tonight

We fly tonight, we fly tonight, we fly tonight
We fly tonight, we fly tonight, we fly tonight

Overall Meaning

The song Fly Tonight by RuPaul conveys a message of empowerment and the desire to break free from the mundane, and soar into the sky. The lyrics talk about the limitations we face in our daily lives and how we all have daydreams of doing something extraordinary, but often shy away from it due to fear of failure. RuPaul urges us to break free from these shackles and take risks to achieve our goals, urging us to take a leap of faith and fly tonight.

The lines "Losers find a place for love, up above the clouds" speaks about how love isn't meant for everyone, and those who fail to find it in their daily lives can escape to a world that they create for themselves, a world with no limits, where they can love and be loved by anyone, without judgment. Right from the opening line, "Here, no one could ever deny, oh! Here, gravity takes to the sky," the singer sets up a world of his own, a place that’s removed from the monotony and restrictions of daily life. The song conveys a message that we all have the capacity to fly, both literally and metaphorically, and it’s up to us to find the courage to take that first step.

Line by Line Meaning

Here
We have arrived

No one could ever deny
There's no denying the fact

Oh! Here
We're ecstatic to be here

Gravity takes to the sky
Even gravity is defied as we soar high

Daydreams not enough for us
We're craving more than just imagination

We can't hide behind this feeling
We can't let this passion go unnoticed

Losers find a place for love
Love can be found in the most unexpected of places

Up above the clouds
We'll find love on high

Take me up
Give me a lift

Wanna fly tonight
We're eager to fly

Gonna fly tonight
We will fly tonight