Lizzo: "I'll explain the origins of twerking and I'm black" - Lifestyle

Three-time Grammy-winning singer and actress,

at TED Talk in Monterey, California explained twerking, the dance in which you shake your hips up and down quickly creating a tremor on the buttocks (in Italy led to success by Elettra Lamborghini), and its cultural origins. “My ass was a topic of conversation. My ass has been in the magazines. Rihanna gave my ass a standing ovation. Yes, my 'booty'. The part of my body I like least. How did it happen? Twerking. Through the twerking movement, I discovered that my butt is my greatest asset, "said the 33-year-old Detroit artist, a symbol of oversized women and an exponent of the positive body movement. 

While twerking has given her fame on a personal level, Lizzo also explained that the dance move is also historically significant, with

in West Africa. Lizzo also talked about the role of society in making the things blacks create their own while erasing the real creators from the history books, as seen in music, science and dance. "We haven't forgotten for a while in the 2010s, the mainstream media claimed that

popularized twerking but blacks carry the origins of this dance through our DNA, through our blood, through our bones",the Good as Hell singer said in Teen Vogue's Ted Talk speech. "

Lizzo mentioned the trends in TikTok and the struggle of

creators

striving for recognition and gains for the dances they create. Also viral dance creators like

and others are currently in the process of copyrighting their moves. "From TikTok trends to songs and humor, we see so much deletion of what blacks have created. And a lot of it is down to misinformation too."