Lizzo's alleged behaviour is awful - celebrities have been getting progressively worse and they need the gospel

As a Christian writing about pop culture events it’s easy to feel I’m coming out of the gate like a raging John Lithgow at an 80s barn dance party. If this reference is over your head, run, don’t walk, with a nifty little jig in your step, to watch the Footloose Movie - only please finish this article first! 

It’s 2023… what’s wrong with a little excitement, some pushing of the envelope? After all, there’s nothing new under the sun. In the 21st century with temptation merely a thumb swipe away, one could get easily bored. It’s important to keep things juicy…. keep the senses ever more lubricated, not be the proverbial stick in the mud. That’s my best guess as to why a massively successful pop hit churning super goddess of the world might find it increasingly necessary to up the ante in the face of the banality of the  commonplace.

Today’s current flavor of feminism demands women partake in what has stereotypically been seen as male behaviour, that she move from the role of objectified to objectifier.

You see, flashing your breast at unsuspecting families during America’s most watched football game, make out sessions between Britney and Madonna, satanic-themed award show performances, they’ve all been done before but goading back up dancers to munch on fruit protruding from the private body parts of sex workers in Amsterdam…. THAT’S new, that’s pushing it.

This scandal du jour has singer Lizzo accused of just this behaviour in an embarrassingly graphic lawsuit brought by some of her former dancers. And just in case you’re pleading the irrelevance of this unenviable character, Lizzo’s music can be heard incessantly on ads for big brands like JD Williams, Garnier, even My Little Pony. If, like me, you’ve ever wondered why the brazen voice assuring you she’s feeling “good as hell,” is wafting through your sitting room to the confusion of your young children (“I thought we weren’t supposed to use that word, mommy”?), you’re familiar with the four time Grammy award winner.

The sad truth is; we are ALL familiar with Lizzo, even when we’re not. You see, the pied piping diva perfectly represents our culture’s increasing obsession with decadence in every form. Just popping over to iTunes to pull up a few of her songs for reference, I’m met with lyrics so distasteful it’s a relief my children aren’t in the room. She declares it’s <male body part> o’clock. She even has a song entitled “Worship” where a modern tinged James Brown-esque beat thumps as she implores the listener to lift their hands, get on their knees and give her the praise she is due. Count ‘em…. FOUR Grammy wins and 99 award show nominations for this glorious contribution to the human experience!

We move in with the Gospel, sharing the Good News; there’s more to life than this. 

See, I can grand stand and tut tut and turn my nose to the sky as high as the next religion lover; I’m not a progressive. I highly esteem the helping of orphans and widows. The truth of Lizzo’s pop superstardom still stands. We live in a world where up is down and fat is thin. Today’s current flavor of feminism demands women partake in what has stereotypically been seen as male behaviour, that she move from the role of objectified to objectifier. Would male dancers have complained if they’d found themselves at a red light district tinged fruit basket buffet? What, pray tell, happens when the party stops and hell isn’t feeling so good anymore? That’s the cue for us boring, religious folk! We move in with the Gospel, sharing the Good News; there’s more to life than this. 

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