Lizzo.
Is.
Everything.
I first heard “Truth Hurts” back in 2017, and it quickly shot up to one of my most played songs of the year. The break-up song is more sassy than sad, gleefully telling your undeserving ex that the DNA test came back and you are “100% that b*tch.”
I wasn’t even going through a break-up… but it didn’t matter! If you didn’t want to hear this song, you’d have to stay clear of the room I shared with my 16-year-old sister. We blasted it for hours and hours on end. “Truth Hurts” is the ultimate self-esteem booster. And the video, in which Lizzo marries herself in a fantastically weird and fun wedding, fits the song perfectly.
Self-love is a running theme throughout her mixtapes and newly released debut album, “Cuz I Love You”. On the song “En Love”, Lizzo raps “All these years been searching for something that would complete me/Who knew that it would be me?” It doesn’t matter what you look like, it doesn’t matter your size. You are worthy. Listening to her music and watching her onstage, you feel empowered.
In the past two years, I’ve gained a lot of weight. Like… a lot. I’m shy and hate attention. But am I getting more of it now? Or am I just imagining it? It has been strange navigating the world at 200+ lbs. My favorite clothes stopped fitting, and I can be fully clothed from head to toe and still seen as immodest because of the size of certain body parts.
Lizzo’s music has helped me a lot during this time, because she is not content to just exude confidence in her plus-size figure, she is constantly working to empower others. When covering Allure magazine she said, “I want people to feel that closeness, because if you can love me as much as you do without knowing me, and without me being like this archetype of modern beauty in media, then you can love yourself.” In April of this year, Lizzo performed at Coachella and held a contest for plus-sized dancers, professional or not, to send in a video of themselves dancing to her new plus-sized anthem “Tempo”. She flew the winners out to perform with her onstage. Because it’s not enough to succeed if you look around and no one else looks like you.
If you’d like to get into her music, check out her new album “ Cuz I Love You” released April 19, 2019.
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