Cynthia Erivo on 'Normalizing' Black Queer Love in Video for New Song
Genius: Aretha, has released “The Good,” the first song off of her upcoming debut album Ch. 1 vs. 1, due out later this year.
The video and song about remembering the good times in a relationship depict a Black female couple played by Erivo and Suriya.Erivo, who rose to fame playing the iconic queer icon Celie in The Color Purple on Broadway and who’s gone on to star in Harriet and Widows, explained the story behind the Mollie Mills directed “The Good” video.“I wanted to normalize seeing Black women in a relationship on screen, because often it’s really fetishistic,” Erivo said in a statement, according to The Hollywood Reporter.“In storytelling, chapter one and verse one is the way you always begin, and because I believe I’m a storyteller,.
