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Why I Wrote Song About Me Not Having Big Bum or Big Breast – Ayra Starr
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Ayra Starr reveals how an issue with a friend inspired her to write a song about her body size.
Nigerian singer, Ayra Starr has opened up on the story that led to her writing a song about her body size.
When Ayra Starr dropped the deluxe edition of her critically lauded album, 19 & Dangerous, people were so preoccupied with the popular tune “Rush” that they failed to notice some of the other songs on the album, such as the extremely risky track “Skinny Girl Anthem.”
The song begins with Ayra Starr singing, “I ain’t got no ass or no titties, but I’ll steal your man with my kitty. “Just a look and he’s with me”, and the singer is now discussing the song’s inspiration in a new interview with Afrobeats Intelligence.
Speaking about the song, Ayra revealed that it was the funniest song she has ever written.
When about why she started the song with daring lyrics, she said;
“Ha! How did I even write this song? I am just always inspired by a lot of things. I wrote “Beggie Beggie” in a bus because I saw somebody begging outside and it just inspired me. So, the weirdest things always inspire me. Why did I write this song? I think I wrote it because a girl that was my friend – I don’t know if she was my friend – we just knew each other. And her boyfriend, I think she was scared her boyfriend liked me.
The Interviewer asked; “But did he like you though?”
AYRA STARR: I’m not sure he liked me because like, why? I’m not sure he liked me. He didn’t. It was very professional. But [the song] was just my way of saying you don’t have to be insecure. I was trying to explain to her but she was still like [angry]. So I was like you know what girl? Forget that I’m skinny, forget! I can do what I want but I’m not going to do it. I wanted her to know that it’s very easy for me to do what I want to do, but I’m not going to do it.
Ayra who was asked if her female friend knew the song was about her, she said;
“No, definitely not. Maybe she’ll know now [laughs]. She’s a very thick girl so it was like my love song to her, like you’re beautiful, I’m beautiful, you don’t have to call me out and say I’m skinny because she was trying to body shame me. And I was like thick girls are beautiful. As much as I’m writing a “Skinny Girl Anthem”, we don’t need an anthem. Because like why? We’re beautiful, everybody is beautiful. So that was the whole point of the song.”