I don’t usually watch the Grammys but my girl Brandi Carlile was up for a couple big awards this year and my other favorite, Kacey Musgraves, was scheduled to perform so I grudgingly stayed up past my 9:30 PM bedtime with the rest of the nation so as to enjoy the outfits, the performances, the bad jokes, the awards.
For almost two days now I’ve been considering the most subversive moment of the entire show: Lizzo’s statement in her acceptance speech that “I’d like to believe that not only can people do good, but we just are good. We are good, inherently.”
What is it about that statement that really makes me uncomfortable? The fact that I haven’t considered it before.