I can’t dance. Don’t ask me. Those who can are as, if not gods to me, then at the very least blessed, otherworldly beings. In new, chaotically entertaining reality-competition show Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls (Amazon Prime), they can all dance and then some. The format is much as you would expect. The star – rapper, singer, songwriter, triple Grammy-winner and flautist Lizzo – needs to recruit some new backing singers and has narrowed down her options by the time filming begins to a shortlist of 13. They will compete first for 10 places in the Big Grrrls’ Mansion, then for the four actual backing singer places before Lizzo’s next big concert, at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts festival in Tennessee.
I should probably explain before we go further: they are all Big Grrrls, because that is an important part of zaftig Lizzo’s brand. The claim is that the benighted agencies were unable to supply Lizzo with anyone other than the standard size-zero dancer models, and so she’s had to take to the streets (and Amazon). Thus there is much talk of body positivity, self-love, representation, showing up for yourself, thanking God for this moment and not letting anyone steal your light/energy/trample on your beautiful soul and so on. Still, thankfully, the music and dancing generally start up again just before it becomes too emetic to be survivable without medical rehydration.
