Syndicated radio host Erick Erickson lauded Lizzo’s musical performance Thursday with James Madison’s 200-year-old crystal flute.
The R&B singer played the flute for a live audience at the Library of Congress and proceeded to twerk which drew viral shares and national media attention.
Erickson, a classical musical enthusiast, said he was disappointed that the media chose to highlight Lizzo’s dancing performance and not her “musical genius.”
‘It sounds as if multiple people are playing multiple instruments but it’s just her,” exclaimed Erickson. What a natural talent God has given her.”
“Lizzo’s notoriety comes not from her musical talent, her fame comes because she is an obese woman who wears very tight, skimpy clothes and twerks on stage and the media finds it empowering that a very nearly morbidly obese woman stands on the stage and twerks.”
Erickson stated that culture is dictated by what Hollywood, New York, and the elites produce for society to consume.
“I used to believe that culture itself reflected the people around it,” said Erickson. “So, all of us, our culture, the things we ingest and the things we digest, the things we consume, the things we produce, they are reflective of us.”
“The cultural trend setters of the cultural elite, they don’t elevate this clip of this young woman who’s clearly a brilliant musician, with music that is edifying to the soul, that reverberates through the marble halls of the Library of Congress. Instead, we get her playing three notes playing nearly naked to a crowd that cheered,” he added.
