Scale Your Business Like a Pop Icon
<p>After Kanye West recently disparaged Lizzo for her weight, calling the media’s support of her size “demonic,” the singer responded to West’s outburst without saying his name. At a concert in Toronto, Lizzo instead <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lizzo-kanye-west-body-shaming_n_63439f17e4b0281645363059" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">said</a>, “I feel like everybody in America got my motherf**king name in they motherf**king mouth for no motherf**king reason, I’m minding my fat Black beautiful business.”</p>
<p>This type of criticism has suffused Lizzo’s career, moving in lockstep with her stunning success. Her celebration of her size, explicitly challenging rigid, Eurocentric standards of beauty, has opened her to such potshots. It gets old. Though confident in her appearance, Lizzo has pushed back against attempts to reduce her career to her looks.</p>
<p>In a caption tied to a TikTok interview in which Lizzo interviews herself, she <a href="https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/entertainment/after-kanye-west-comments-on-her-weight-lizzo-addresses-it-with-video-clip-441857" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">referenced</a> her frustration with the public’s fixation on her appearance: “You’re a musician . . . and fat. Did you know that no matter how many hits you make people will only talk about your body?” The video then shows her effecting a flat facial expression, saying, “I didn’t know that.”</p>
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