Edited by Azizi Powell
This pancocojams post presents information Lizzo and showcases her 2016 YouTube video of her song "Good As Hell" which features Black women's hair styles.
Information about this song is also included in this post along with the song's lyrics.
The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.
All copyright remains with their owners.
Thanks to Lizzo for her musical legacy and thanks to Ricky Reed, the producer of this song and all those who are associated with this video/song. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to Lizzo for publishing this video on YouTube.
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/01/comments-about-being-in-marching-bands.html for a pancocojams post about the 2019 official video of Lizzo's "Good As Hell". That post is entitled "Comments About Being In Marching Bands From The Discussion Thread For Lizzo's 2019 'Good As Hell' YouTube Video".
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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE:
This song contains two curse words which are given with modified spelling since pancocojams is a family friendly blog.
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INFORMATION ABOUT LIZZO
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzo
"Melissa Viviane Jefferson (born April 27, 1988), known professionally as Lizzo, is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, and flutist.[3] Born in Detroit, Michigan, she moved to Houston, Texas where she began performing, before moving to Minneapolis, where she began her recording career. Before signing with Nice Life and Atlantic Records, Lizzo released two studio albums—Lizzobangers (2013), and Big Grrrl Small World (2015). In 2014, Time named her one of fourteen music artists to watch. Lizzo's first major-label EP, Coconut Oil, was released in 2016.
In 2019, she attained mainstream success with the release of her third studio album, Cuz I Love You, which peaked inside the top five of the Billboard 200. The album spawned two singles: "Juice" and "Tempo". The deluxe version of the album included Lizzo's 2017 single "Truth Hurts", which became a viral sleeper hit, topping the Billboard Hot 100 two years after its initial release. Around this time, her 2016 single "Good as Hell" also climbed the charts, reaching the top ten of the UK Singles Chart and the Billboard Hot 100. Lizzo has been nominated for Best New Artist and received eight nominations at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year for the deluxe version of Cuz I Love You and Song of the Year and Record of the Year for "Truth Hurts"."...
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INFORMATION ABOUT LIZZO'S SONG "GOOD AS HELL" [and its 2016 YouTube video]
From https://www.npr.org/2018/11/28/671236822/lizzo-good-as-hell-american-anthem%E2%80%9D%3Ehttps://www.npr.org/2018/11/28/671236822/lizzo-good-as-hell-american-anthem%3C/a%3E
"In Praise Of 'Good As Hell, The Song That Believes In You Even When You Don't" published by Hanif Abdurraqib, November 28, 2018
..."Lizzo's "Good as Hell" was first released in the spring of 2016, ahead of the rapper and singer's stellar EP Coconut Oil. It is the kind of song that crawls into the body, becoming one with all its good joints and best nerves, and by now it has found a life of its own — not only in film but in clubs, jukeboxes, house parties, road trips, RuPaul's Drag Race, anywhere that signifies escape.
Like most great anthems, it is a communal exercise. In place of a hand over her heart, Lizzo opens with, "I do my hair toss." The line will return over and over, eventually shifting into a direct invitation to the listener: "And do your hair toss." Then comes the central thesis, issued in the chorus as a call and response. Marching through the wreckage wrought by shaky self-confidence, Lizzo shouts a question into the void — "Baby, how you feelin'?" — and waits as a choir of voices replies, "Feelin' good as hell."
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Like the dirt on Jay-Z's shoulder before it, the collective hair toss is a shaking off of weight, emotional or mental, the action that allows a recontextualizing of the self before the night ahead calls to us….
"Good as Hell" is the rare song that can play at any point in a night out and resonate in each: the getting ready, the going out, the rallying while the hours dwindle, the affirmation in a car home. It is the song that first says, "We're going to do it," and then says, "You are doing it better than anyone ever has," and then, "You did it. Thank you."
The empowerment of women is at the heart of this particular anthem, a fact that deserves not to be erased. The
music video is packed with women of color, doing the work of preparing themselves for the world, and then feeling themselves in the most glorious sense….
Tucked between the verse and chorus are the lines, "If he don't love you anymore / Just walk your fine ass out the door." It is a conceit that has shown up in American pop music — particularly that made by women — for decades now, the idea of leaving some no-good man who doesn't see the best angles you have to offer.
But there is also a doorway here for anyone to step through a find a room of their own, if one can zoom out and imagine that all kinds of leaving are honored between the song's opening and crescendo — a bad relationship, or a bad job, or a bad meal or, even if just for a moment, a bad world. Without erasing the unique specifics of the song's message, there is another message rattling below: Anyone who desires wings can go out and get them.”...
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“The dirt on Jay-Z’s shoulder” is hyperlinked to Jay¬Z’s 2003 YouTube video “Dirt Off Your Shoulder”. Here’s an urban dictionary meaning for that phrase which is more commonly known as “brushing the dirt off your shoulder”:
From https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=get%20that%20dirt%20off%20your%20shoulder
get that dirt off your shoulder
Shaking them haters off. In other words it means to brush off negative energy of statements made about you.
Brandon hates on me all day. Man I gotta get all this dirt of my shoulder.
by Nikky March 01, 2004
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From https://genius.com/Lizzo-good-as-hell-lyrics
"What has the media said about the song?
In 2018, NPR ranked this as the #44 greatest song by a female or nonbinary artist in the 21st century, saying:
A self-care anthem for the ages, Lizzo’s ‘Good as Hell’ probably would have sounded just as satisfying had it come out a year earlier — but damn if it wasn’t the exact salve we all needed in 2016. As the presidential campaign bent reality and the national conversation turned toxic, Lizzo blasted through our speakers to remind us that turning inward and taking the time to treat yo' self isn’t selfish: In this climate, it’s survival, and something worth celebrating. Boss up, as Lizzo says, and change your life."...
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SHOWCASE VIDEO: Lizzo - Good As Hell (Video)
Lizzo Music, May 11, 2016
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Statistics as of January 18, 2020 as of 12:41 PM ET
total # of views - 61,566,352
total likes- 759K
total dislikes - 19K
total comments - 20,766
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LYRICS: GOOD AS HELL
(composer Lizzo, producer Rick Reed)
[Chorus]
I do my hair toss, check my nails
Baby, how you feelin'? (Feelin' good as hell)
Hair toss, check my nails
Baby, how you feelin'? (Feelin' good as hell)
[Verse 1]
Woo, child, tired of the bullsh&t*
Go on, dust your shoulders off, keep it moving
Yes, Lord, tryna get some new sh&t*
In there, swimwear, going-to-the-pool sh&t*
Come now, come dry your eyes
You know you a star, you can touch the sky
I know that it's hard, but you have to try
If you need advice, let me simplify
[Pre-Chorus]
If he don't love you anymore
Just walk your fine ass out the door
[Chorus]
I do my hair toss, check my nails
Baby, how you feelin'? (Feelin' good as hell)
Hair toss, check my nails
Baby, how you feelin'? (Feelin' good as hell)
(Feeling good as hell)
Baby, how you feelin'? (Feelin' good as hell)
[Verse 2]
Woo, girl, need to kick off your shoes
Gotta take a deep breath, time to focus on you
All the big fights, long nights that you been through
I got a bottle of tequila I been saving for you
Boss up and change your life
You can have it all, no sacrifice
I know he did you wrong, we can make it right
So go and let it all hang out tonight
[Pre-Chorus]
'Cause he don't love you anymore
So walk your fine ass out the door
[Chorus]
And do your hair toss, check my nails
Baby, how you feelin'? (Feelin' good as hell)
Hair toss, check my nails
Baby, how you feelin'? (Feelin' good as hell) (Show it off tonight)
Hair toss, check my nails
Baby, how you feelin'? (Feelin' good as hell) (And we gon' be alright)
Hair toss, check my nails
Baby, how you feelin'? (Feelin' good as hell)
[Pre-Chorus]
Mmm, yeah, alright
Listen, if he don't love you anymore
Then walk your fine ass out the door
[Chorus]
And do your hair toss, check my nails
Baby, how you feelin'? (Feelin' good as hell) (Woo-hoo)
Hair toss, check my nails
Baby, how you feelin'? (Feelin' good as hell) (Show it off tonight)
Hair toss, check my nails
Baby, how you feelin'? (Feelin' good as hell) (And we gon' make it right)
Hair toss, check my nails
Baby, how you feelin'? (Feelin' good as hell)
(Feelin' good as hell)
Baby, how you feelin'? (Feelin' good as hell)
Source: https://genius.com/Lizzo-good-as-hell-lyrics
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