The singer/rapper/flautist from Detroit, 30, has been on the scene for a while – she released independent albums in 2013 and 2015 and made a prestigious guest appearance on Prince’s 2014 album Plectrumelectrum – but this looks like her breakthrough moment. The climate is certainly right for a plus-size woman of colour singing about how gorgeous she is. The song, released a fortnight ago, is a joyous ode to body positivity that begins, “Mirror mirror on the wall, don’t say it ‘cause I know I’m cute,” and has a similar retro funk sound to another massive hit, Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson’s Uptown Funk.
