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Giving Lizzo The Love She Deserves If there could only be one artist to save us all in 2019, it will be this body-positive, self-loving, tequila-drinking, fluteplaying, breathtakingly-talented rapper and singer. By JT Lucas
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o there I am one morning, laying in bed chugging cold brew coffee straight from the jug, trying to wake up while half-watching the previous night’s Jimmy Fallon while half-glancing through my social media feeds. Suddenly, I’m jerked to attention by a line that will surely propel a career into super-stardom: “Hold up, Jimmy, please, don’t make me have to take your bitch!” I break away from my Insta-stories, and my first thought is “sparkly.” There’s Lizzo — fierce, confident and decked out like a disco ball — completely owning the stage and working her way into a standing ovation. She promised that audience an “Ooooh, ahhhh sensation,” and I doubt there was a person out there who didn’t want to slide into her DMs when she was done. But there was a part of the whole performance that I did not like, when Jimmy Fallon claimed that Lizzo was one of his favorite new artists. Hold up, Jimmy, please, don’t make me have to educate you. Lizzo ain’t new. I would like to take a few minutes to explore this Big Grrrl thriving in this small world.
8 | MARCH 2019
TRUE Q MAGAZINE
