Melissa Jefferson, better known by her stage name Lizzo, has dropped a new music video that’s getting a lot of love online.
Called My Skin, Lizzo’s video challenges the assumptions people make when they see the colour of her skin.
On Facebook, where she first posted the video, she wrote:
My Skin literally matters. It matters because it’s the largest organ on my body. Because it’s my exterior. It’s been stretched, sunburnt and covered in glitter. It’s the first thing you notice about me. My skin is dark brown, but if you asked someone they would say it’s black. My blackness is my largest assumed “accessory”.
Simply because of the colour of her skin, Lizzo’s experienced many misconceptions about who she is, from people assuming a ‘ghetto-ness’ about her to being told by boys that she’s not black enough.