‘We’re Here’ Star Eureka O’Hara Brings Some Monster Hits With Her Exclusive Selections For ‘The Sound Of Halloween’

Boo! It’s Halloween! Throughout October, HollywoodLife is running The Sound Of Halloween, where immoderate of your favourite fiends of the music, movies, television, and popular civilization worlds prime songs that should beryllium connected your Halloween 2022 playlist. Today, resistance performer Eureka – the “Big Mawma” and Elephant Queen – is present to instrumentality your dainty with immoderate chap queens for their TSOH picks.

(Sean Vadella)

Eureka (They/Them) archetypal made their mode into our hearts acknowledgment to appearances connected RuPaul’s Drag Race, AJ and the Queen, and Ru Paul’s Drag Race All Stars. Since then, Eureka has taken the popular civilization satellite by tempest with their critically-acclaimed series, We’re Here, alongside chap resistance performers Bob The Drag Queen and Shangela – who is sidesplitting it connected Season 31 of Dancing with the Stars.

Whereas Drag Race sees established resistance performers vie against each other, We’re Here sends Bob, Eureka, and Shangela into tiny towns crossed America to link with LGBTQ+ radical (and their consecutive allies) to enactment connected one-night-only resistance shows. It’s a determination that builds tolerance, understanding, and – arsenic often needed with at-risk queer younker – assurance to beryllium who they genuinely are. (Season 3 premieres connected November 25 connected HBO.)

Such humanitarian enactment is 1 of Eureka’s platforms, and we’re not talking astir their pumps. “I’m traveling to Vietnam with the non-profit enactment Influence the World,” Eureka tells HollywoodLife when discussing their upcoming October plans. This travel volition spot them “work with underprivileged children and orphanages to make a blessed abstraction for the younker successful Vietnam.”

To assistance make a blessed abstraction successful your holiday, Eureka has picked a mates of selections for The Sound of Halloween playlist.

Eureka’s Halloween Playlist Picks

Elvira, “Monster Rap” 

 [Editor’s note: One would deliberation that with the paperback merchandise of the New York Times Bestselling memoir Yours Cruelly, Elvira, that Elvira Presents Monster Hits, her 1994 merchandise connected Rhino Records, would beryllium connected streaming platforms – if conscionable for her songs. Again, this is simply a cautionary communicative for getting carnal media. We besides are putting Elvira’s “13 Nights Of Halloween” on the playlist arsenic a placeholder]

Lady Gaga, “Teeth”

Eureka O’Hara, “WERQ!”

[While “WERQ!” isn’t a Halloween song, there’s an statement to beryllium made that Halloween is simply a queer vacation – The Advocate made specified an statement successful 2019 – truthful immoderate Halloween playlist without anthems similar this is incomplete – Ed.]

Halloween: When idiosyncratic says “Halloween,” what’s the archetypal happening that jumps into your caput from your past?  

Eureka: I fondly retrieve dressing my sister, nieces & nephew successful afloat constitution and each of the Halloween regalia. Then trick-or-treating each crossed town.

What bash you deliberation volition beryllium the astir fashionable Halloween costume this year? Or, what SHOULD be, successful your mind?   

The Sanderson Sisters!

Do you person immoderate peculiar October/Halloween traditions?  

I ever effort to walk immoderate prime clip with my family. I’ve ever enjoyed helping get them each dressed up for All Hallows’ Eve.

(Sean Vadella)

What fearfulness movie would you prima successful if fixed a fund and escaped scope to bash whatever? You tin remake immoderate movie of the past, oregon you tin make your own. 

I would astir decidedly pick Friday the 13th, playing the relation of Pamela Voorhees. “Because the counsellor should person been paying attention, nary 1 was paying attraction erstwhile that mediocre lad drowned.”

What’s connected pat for October for you — and the remainder of the year? Tell america what you person going on?  

October is afloat of amusive worldly this year! I’m traveling to Vietnam with the non-profit enactment Influence the World to enactment with underprivileged children and orphanages to make a blessed abstraction for the younker successful Vietnam.

On Halloween, you tin drawback maine astatine The Garden successful Las Vegas. As for aboriginal this year, we person Season 3 of We’re Here premiering successful November arsenic good arsenic a beauteous peculiar task that I’ve been moving connected since earlier this year. Big Mawma can’t hold to fto that feline retired of the bag!