LIZZO

Question 1

Tempo

Answer 1

• First track to be released from album
• Celebrates ‘thick’ women and turns conventional standards of beauty on their head: ‘look at my ass its fitty fitty fat’ (what a man might say but reclaimed)
• Susan McClary talks about Madonna being more sexualised to ‘carve out a niche’ - but Lizzo has to do this on deeper level, because faces body shaming and racism.

Question 2

Juice

Answer 2

• Intersection between gender roles and body image
• Self love ‘mirror, mirror…’
• Music video is parody of 1980s Jane Fonda
• Don’t dare try to cop a feel

Question 3

Soulmate

Answer 3

• Cast of queer eye, centres around pride flag
• Lizzo’s sexuality ‘I don’t ascribe to just one thing’
• Cusick’s phallic economy doesnt account for non-binary so Cusick ironically created further binary

Question 4

Like A Girl

Answer 4

‘Lauryn Hill told me everything is everything…Serena Willy showed me i can win the wimbledon’
- credits precedent of female black culture (Hill brought hiphop to pop culture, popularised melodic rapping and Miseducation of Lauryn Hill one of most best selling albums of all time)

Question 5

Better in Color

Answer 5

• ‘Black, white, ebony, all sound good to me’ and ‘bitch don’t label me’
• Like Audre lorde - intersectionality of race, sexuality, class etc