As Moore herself admits, she never had a “ho phase.” But she understands why someone would do that, and she wanted to shift the focus away from her original viral video’s abstinence message. (“Honey, if I wasn’t married, I would be in that phase right now,” she told me on Zoom.) As “One Margarita” spread, people of all genders She is happy to see that is participating. And every sexuality has lip-synced along to her songs. Many don’t even avoid nodding to the chorus, where the chorus goes, “Give her five margaritas, enjoy/Give her five margaritas, put them in the bread.” Given the many backlashes the LGBTQ+ community has faced lately, including boycotts of queer beer, hundreds of disenfranchisement bills, and threats against drug brunch, she’s happy that songs celebrating sexuality were removed at the start of Pride Month. I’m in. “I feel like there’s something revolutionary going on, especially for women,” she says. “That was one of the reasons I wanted to change her perspective when I heard the lyrics in her head while freestyling.”
The success of Moore’s songs also speaks for its well-deserved creators, especially black female creators. There’s a long history of trends and meme machines that separate black creators from the culture they produce, but as “One Margarita” became more popular, so did the songs Moore made with Terrell and Casa Di, and their names along with it. spread. They are not credited as it has not become a dance challenge that began aside from their singing. As my colleague Jason Parham writes, cultural appropriation is frequent on TikTok. As we now see with AI, technology has a way of scraping and scraping people’s creative labor. So far, that’s not happening on “One Margarita.”
“I’ve been a content creator for 13 years, and most of the time my work resonates with people who are like me,” Moore says. “This was the first time I felt that some of my content resonated with me.” many with people who are not like me. I see all these white girls, I see a lot of queer people, I see fraternity boys. I was like, ‘Wait, my God!’ ”
Dixon and Terrell, who have been making music together since childhood, said their goal now is to find someone to add another verse to the song. “People kind of pitch their favorite artists. They’re like, ‘Oh City Girls! ‘” Megan Thee Stallion! Rizzo! ‘ says Dixon. “The next step is to get an artist to take the song to the next level.”
Saying that, Moore smiled and shook his head. According to her, there are many female rappers who want to participate in this song, including Lizzo. “If any of them said, ‘Can I have some of this?’ let’s Pass that message on to the appropriate MC.
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