Twerk? Yaka? Duffy? Buku? Big Freedia’s Guide to Bounce Music Slang
Big Freedia knows a thing or two about twerking — last fall she helped set the Guinness World Record for the most people twerking simultaneously. This month, she has even more reasons to get on [...]
Big Freedia: Just Be Free
Over 23 years, the hyperkinetic, unapologetically horny sound of New Orleans bounce has changed the world – perhaps you've heard of the word "twerk"? – and now the genre's loudest ambassador has finally made a [...]
Album stream and Q&A: Big Freedia’s ‘Just Be Free’
Big Freedia is about to explode. A few months ago I came across the unforgettable, gender-bending artist on the Fuse network, which was marathoning her unscripted show, Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce. Within minutes, I was hooked [...]
Album stream and Q&A: Big Freedia’s ‘Just Be Free’
A few months ago I came across the unforgettable, gender-bending artist on the Fuse network, which was marathoning her unscripted show, Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce. Within minutes, I was hooked on her sound, style [...]
Jazz Fest Report: Chuck D, Big Freedia and Laura Mvula on the Influence of New Orleans
“We definitely have a lot of flavor and a lot of culture and history here [in New Orleans] with the music. So people come here to see what’s hot, to see what’s new, to see [...]
Big Freedia: All Hail the ‘Queen of Bounce’ – EBONY
The first thing that hits you is the bass, booming and almost deafening in its intensity. Then there are the booties, abundant and defiantly moving to the rhythm as sweat flies across the stage. A Big [...]
“ARE YOU HERE FOR THE TWERKING?”
Around noon on Wednesday, as the nation watched Ted Cruz wrap up his twenty-one-hour filibuster, New Yorkers in and around Herald Square watched a crowd gather for an attempt to set the world record for [...]
Big Freedia Lays Out The Basics Of Bounce
Born out of New Orleans club culture, bounce music isn't just best experienced in person — it's almost impossible to understand in the abstract. But Big Freedia (pronounced "free-duh"), one of the style's biggest stars, [...]
New Orleans’s Gender-Bending Rap
At 1 a.m., though, Freedia (pronounced “FREE-da”) was still a mile or so away, fulfilling a paid celebrity-hosting gig at Club Fabulous. The fabulousness of Club Fabulous, on this night at least, seemed a function [...]