Watch Lizzo's Watch Out For the Big Grrrls Immediately

Did y’all miss out on the audition casting call too?! The versatile Lizzo breaks bounds with her new streaming series, Watch Out For The Big Grrrls, showcasing an array of 13 of the best plus-size dancers across the country, all competing for their spot in Lizzo’s tour dance troupe! This exhilarating opportunity has uplifted 13 badass dancers who have gifted viewers with pure joy and absolute slayage! 

Off the bat, Lizzo addresses the glaring problem pop culture has with fat/big people, and overall industry fatphobia when it comes to misconceptions about plus-size people, their health, and their ability or ‘lackthereof’ to be active/healthy. For too long, plus size people’s health, especially plus size women’s health has been subject to debate or denial with very little in between. It is frustrating and disheartening that a majority of mainstream society would rather shame and belittle bigger and diverse body types as opposed to admiring or at the bare minimum, respecting different body types/images. 

Fearlessly, Lizzo dispels the myths that bigger people aren’t as desirable, active, fit, or as healthy as “ideal” dancers and performers each time she shows out on stage! It is this high eclectic energy that Lizzo desires to have matched in her quest for fresh big grrrl dancers! 

The series, now streaming on Amazon Prime TV, delves into the headstrong and sometimes clashing personalities of 13 stunning, fun-filled big grrrls! Having been scouted by Lizzo herself or accepted via stellar audition tapes, these contestants aren’t battling one another to send someone home, rather, they are applying pressure to themselves so they can earn their spot alongside one of the biggest names in pop culture! 

The show notably opens the doors for so many curvy, thick, boobielicous, bootilicious, and jiggy bodies of all races, gender identities, and sexualities to step into the mainstream. Dancers like Jayla Sullivan, a plus-size acrobatic dancer who has earned her way into the heart of thousands of fans, come to mind. Sullivan has sealed her place in the professional dance world as a role model and fierce competitor, being classically trained in 12- yes 12 different dance styles! The captures her trials with preconceived notions about her weight compared to what she does as a dancer and artist. Sullivan holds nothing back in her performances and is for sure, one to keep tabs on as her career with the series and beyond continues. It’s emerging role models like Sullivan that truly pave the way for so many introverted stars to arise to their potential. 

Another highly trained and versatile dancer, Jasmine Morrison has also paved a way for herself in the industry as a sharp and cunning dancer with an alluring flare. With a bold personality that at times clashed with some of the other women in the house, Morrison still shined on the dancefloor adding zest to the overall tone of the house. Cast members like Morrison and Sullivan are personalities that flip the typical mold of reality TV competition shows, adding to the reality TV canon refreshingly. 

Every moment that presents each dancer in a solo or group performance directly focused on showing the world that it’s okay to have a body that jiggles, wiggles, and everything in between. And, the camera work does well to include the pure joy that the art of dance brings each dancer, especially when they are each in their element. There’s an appreciation and celebration of bigger bodies that has rarely been seen or at least done tastefully on TV.

Lizzo’s series engages with conversations about the highs of being functional and gifted dancers, in addition to the negatives of fatphobia culture that has taken its toll on most of the dancers at one point or another. The series is evident that bigger people can be sexy, attractive, and healthy and that society needs to recognize that this has and always will be the case! As a whole the show destigmatizes these negative stereotypes and presents the same format for a talent search/discovery show, just opening the floor to a new demographic of fans and followers.

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