![]() ![]() But then again there could be glory and celebration. There's no point in skirting, or indeed covering up the issue, because in lyrics, what comes out? Awkwardness, self-loathing, cruelty? Yes of course. This week's topic title could have been tad more cautious, perhaps a more politically correct 'songs about body shape and weight issues', or 'songs that refer to the larger-sized person', but no, sod it, let's just loosen the belt, let it all hang out, eat the full chocolate gateaux, open the family size bag of nuts and crisps, scoop out the ice-cream sundae, swing the old bingo wings, wobble the spare tyre, and call it songs about being or feeling fat, or simply songs about fat people. But incidentally, why might a fat (or even phat) bass sound be attractive to the ears, but a thin (voice) generally be bad? Yet when it comes to perceiving the human body, the association of those adjectives flips right round? "I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico." – Mika In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back." – Paul McCartney ![]() "None of us wanted to be the bass player. ![]() "My fat never made me less money." – Dolly Parton "Folk music is a bunch of fat people." – Bob Dylan 'That is her style of beauty,' said Winston.” – George Orwell, 1984 'She's a metre across the hips, easily,' said Julia. But now that he has a platform he is bringing awareness to people who just might not understand.“It’s an uncommonly dangerous thing to be left without any padding against the shafts of disease.” – George Eliot, Middlemarch ![]() He explains that he did not have a choice for some of the things he has done in his life. Not only does he address police brutality and systemic racism in our country but also talks about his past as a Black man. I highly recommend listening to the song if you haven’t already. I was very glad that Lil Baby made this song, and decided to share his thoughts with the world. If we all ignore what’s on the outside and pay more attention to how people are on the inside, I think they world would be filled with less hate. I am glad Lil Baby acknowledge these stereotypes because that is what’s making the world a hateful place. While some people see a white person and assume they are racist. Some people see a black person and hold a bias that they are not intelligent. Baby also goes on to say ” Every colored person ain’t dumb and all whites not racist, I be judging by the mind and heart, I ain’t really into faces.” This is my favorite verse in the song because it addresses certain stereotypes people are holding. When listening to this song I did not know this happened to I googled it. Baby is bringing awareness to events that happened that people might not know about. “I find it crazy the police’ll shoot you and know you dead but still tell you to freeze.” Baby is referring to a murder that happened to a black individual who was already dead but the police still told them to freeze. Lil Baby shows solidarity with the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests calling for justice against police brutality in the United States and systemic racism.Throughout the song, Lil Baby explains what life is like as a Black man, while telling examples of how Black people have been hurt in this world we are living in. Lil Baby dropped this song around the time George Floyd was killed. “The Bigger Picture” is a protest song by an American rapper “Lil Baby”. ![]()
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