A drag queen performed 'Baby Shark' for a 2-year-old and Twitter (mostly) loved it
Rasha Ali
The best drag queen performance of the year goes to Marti Gould Cummings for an outstanding rendition of "Baby Shark."
No, not Britney Spears' "...Baby One More Time" nor Beyoncé's "Single Ladies," but the toddler cult-classic "Baby Shark."
Cummings posted a video of his performance to Twitter where it quickly garnered 630K views and 6k retweets. The video shows Cummings clapping along to the song with a toddler who was attending a drag brunch in New Jersey.
"When a 2 year old comes to brunch you perform baby shark for them!!!" he captioned the video.
The responses to Cummings' video were positive with most people applauding the drag queen for bringing joy to the kid.
"We stan a family friendly queen," responded a fan.
"This just flooded me with joy," said another.
Cummings recently started performing at the brunches, according to NBC. The kids in attendance normally don't pay much attention, he said.
"Saturday we decided to do a ‘drag roulette,’ where the audience picks a bunch of songs for us to perform at random,” Cummings told NBC. "I asked the little boy what he wanted to see performed, because he had been paying attention when I got to their table, and he asked for ‘Baby Shark.’ The DJ quickly found the song online, and we added it to the playlist for him."
Cummings did receive some backlash from critics who didn't appreciate his performance, but he responded with a statement that encouraged the haters to spread positive energy into the world.
This isn't the first time drag queens have interacted with toddlers. "Drag Queen Story Hours" have been popping up around the country where drag queens read stories to kids at libraries, schools and bookstores.
The events have received mixed reviews.
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