Thursday, March 28, 2024

Lizzo Named Time’s Entertainer of the Year: ‘I’m Mainstream!’

LIZZO - TIME*Folks across social media are giving the side-eye to Lizzo being named Time’s 2019 Entertainer of the Year. 

Talent aside, some believe the only reason she received the honor is because she’s an obese Black woman being used to push the “millennial mammy” agenda while literally making an ass of herself. 

She recently appeared at a Lakers game with her ass out and twerking for the arena. Lizzo claims she pulled the stunt to promote body confidence.

“I think it’s healthy to have a relationship with your naked body, even if no one ever sees it,” she tells Time. “But I’ve always felt the need to share it.”

 But she hasn’t always been proud of her body.  

OTHER NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED: Juice WRLD’s Family Makes Statement and Sheds Light on His Prescription Drug Abuse

LIZZO - TIME

“From March to … now!” She laughs. “I was experiencing a little bit of unhappiness. I was not happy with the way I felt to my body. I didn’t feel sexy, and I didn’t know when it was going to end. There were times when I would go on stage and be like, ‘Y’all, I’m not going to lie. I’m not feeling myself.’ Sometimes I’d break down and cry. Sometimes the audience would just cheer to make me feel better. I was getting sick a lot. I was like, What the f-ck is going on? I need to fall back in love with my body.” She’s working on this, along with the newfound pressures of celebrity, in therapy. “I didn’t want to be famous,” she says. “I wanted to be like Brandon Boyd from Incubus! I just want to go to the farmers’ market.”

Lizzo wants her haters to know that she’s now a proud champion of people loving their naked bodies. 

“Seeing the beauty in your naked body is really important. I think that naked bodies are artful. They’re masterful. You are a work of art. So I take nudes.”

When it comes to the criticism she receives for putting it all out there on social media, the singer says she often has to hold back from popping off. 

“When people challenge my talent, they challenge whether I deserve to be here. They challenge my blackness. I’m like, ‘Oh! I can easily just let your a** know right now in 132 characters why you’re f**king wrong,’” she said.

“I’ve been doing positive music for a long-ass time. Then the culture changed. There were a lot of things that weren’t popular but existed, like body positivity, which at first was a form of protest for fat bodies and black women and has now become a trendy, commercialized thing. Now I’ve seen it reach the mainstream. Suddenly I’m mainstream!” She laughs. “How could we have guessed something like this would happen when we’ve never seen anything like this before?”

Read her full TIME Magazine Entertainer of the Year profile here.

We Publish News 24/7. Don’t Miss A Story. Click HERE to SUBSCRIBE to Our Newsletter Now!

YOU MAY LIKE

SEARCH

- Advertisement -

TRENDING