It was fat people loving skinny people, and vice versa. It had ties to people and places and ideas, instead of decamping for New York or L.A. Regular was the quiet that filled the room after turning off a blaring celebrity entertainment show. It was a healthy body image and enthusiastic consent it was the freedom to be wholesome instead of pitching moralistically between abstinence and nastiness. To be regular, average, normal was in defiance of that era’s celebrity maximalism. This was the era that gave us Akinyele’s “ Put It in Your Mouth” and Khia’s “ My Neck, My Back,” released about six years apart, with the Nas and Bravehearts’ “ Oochie Wally” surfacing in between. From boy bands, who socialized young girls to puritanically fixate on love and relationships, to hip-hop, which was the domain of hedonists. Film and television reinforced this message (“The Bachelor” and “Extreme Makeover” took it to the extreme), but so did music.
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