Why ‘Cozy’ by Beyoncé is the New Black Fats Woman Anthem

It is a reminder!

Simply 3 weeks in the past, Beyoncé stopped the world once more together with her newest album Renaissance; an ode to and reclaiming of deep home music, Black LGBTQ Ballroom tradition, and her expensive Uncle Johnny.

Renaissance is a really feel good album created to make us dance, escape among the societal turmoil we’ve needed to endure over the previous 2 and a half years, and to remind us to be pleased with who we’re and the completely different marks we are going to all go away on this world.

Beyoncé isn’t new to creating ladies’s empowerment anthems (I imply, she’s been writing them because the age of 16!) neither is she new to producing music that facilities Black folks and our numerous marginalized voices. She has been utilizing her music to specific her political ideas and stances for the previous few years. Her new hit, Cozy, is not any completely different.

Cozy is an Affirmation

Whereas listening to Renaissance for what might be my a centesimal time, I got here to the belief that this album is just an audible assortment of affirmations; a candy observe to your self to like your self despite what society, naysayers, and doubters attempt to inform you about your self.

Cozy has shortly turn out to be the stand out monitor amongst fat positive influencers and plus dimension content material creators as you see them reveling within the lyrics whereas scrolling Instagram and TikTok.

Beyoncé kicks off Cozy by proclaiming, “It is a reminder!” She units us as much as take observe and heed to what’s to return and follows up her warning with, “Rattling I really like the dagger from the burning of the phrases that you simply say, Kiss my scars as a result of I really like what they made.” Bey is making a press release about her publish child physique and never solely honoring her physique for what it’s executed but in addition bigging herself up in a approach that’s the right mixture of braggadocious and horny.

Let’s Breakdown Cozy’s Characteristic

Featured on this music to solidify the message of physique liberation in all varieties, is plus dimension Black trans girl, media & cultural sensation, TS Madison. Beyoncé samples TS Madison’s YouTube video speech, “Bitch I’m Black” the place TS explicitly shares her pleasure in being a Black individual and the way essential it’s to her, all whereas naming all the opposite identities she holds and the way a lot oppression she is compounded with.

TS particulars are exhausted from being a Black, large bodied, transwoman, and having her Blackness erased as a consequence of her transness. Madison makes use of this second to call that she is “fats and juicy” and bored with being hidden within the shadows by males who love her solely within the darkness and by no means within the mild.

Within the Shadows

“I’m cozy. I really like me. I’m juicy. You hate me cuz you need me.” It’s pivotal right here that we uplift the alternative ways fats ladies, trans ladies, and different marginalized those who Bey is scripting this self-love letter to, to expertise romantic love.

It’s essential as a result of very similar to TS Madison, we all know what it means to be hidden as fats Black ladies and what it means for society and people sexually drawn to you to need to hurt you, not simply since you look the best way you look, however as a result of they secretly love the best way you look.

As a fats Black girl, I do know what it appears and appears like for a romantic companion or love curiosity to solely take you out on late dates, to solely obtain invitations to somebody’s condominium, however by no means artistic or enjoyable outings.

Cozy is greater than an anthem for fats Black ladies; it’s a rallying cry and declaration for people who find themselves othered in society, to take heart stage.

It’s a music with deeper layers that reminds us to bounce in entrance of the mirror bare whereas hugging all of the components of us that the world round us rejects. It’s the mandatory step we’d like in the direction of true physique liberation. All of us need to be snug in our pores and skin.

Thanks for the reminder, Bey.

P.S. Try these plus dimension influencers getting cozy! @Chrissybstyles, @MsKristine, @Thenitadanielle, @StillGlitter, @Victoria_Yetunde, @SydneyBell, @Oyamabotha!