I typically like to use this column to focus on Portland hip-hop, but I have to break my own rule when an artist as dope as Lizzo comes to town. The positive feelings her music gives me are so rare and pure that I just can’t get enough of her magic—she’s like the real-life Rose Quartz of Steven Universe’s Crystal Gems.
There’s so much to love about the Minneapolis-based rapper/singer, and it seems like she loves Portland right back—after her two-night stint at the Wonder this week, she’ll have visited three times in the past year. Lizzo’s a BBW singer who loves her plus-size figure enough to perform demanding choreography in a leotard just like Beyoncé, and that’s often seen as radical or a political statement. But she’s just being unapologetically herself: talented, big, beautiful, and loving it.
