{"id":699829,"date":"2025-11-18T18:30:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T15:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/theodoras-globe-trotting-pop-is-france-right-now\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T18:30:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T15:30:18","slug":"theodoras-globe-trotting-pop-is-france-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/theodoras-globe-trotting-pop-is-france-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Theodora\u2019s globe-trotting pop is France right now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<style>\n<p> article.custom .custom-title, article.custom .custom-media .caption {\n   color: #ed40fd;\n }<\/p>\n<p> article.custom .custom-attribution, article.custom .custom-attribution a {\n   color: #ed40fd;\n }<\/p>\n<p> article.custom .content_block blockquote.pull_quote {\n   color: #ed40fd;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275809\" class=\"content_block flush title center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"custom-title\">\n      Gen F: Theodora\u2019s globe-trotting pop is France right now\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-description\">\n      The 22-year-old singer makes songs to unabashedly live to using sounds from France\u2019s diaspora.\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-attribution\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Steffanee Wang<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"photographer\">Photographer <span class=\"credit_name\">Liesel Fritsch<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-media\">\n<div class=\" image center_align\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06558_jirkt4\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg\" 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href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> profiles the emerging artists you need to know right now.<br \/>\n          <\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275819\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <span class=\"lead-text\">There\u2019s a lyric on Theodora\u2019s breakout single<\/span> \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/d2tnwgcBfoA?si=94tSDLVXWhLo6ech\">KONGOLESE SOUS BBL<\/a>\u201d that was written specifically for the girls. In the first verse, before the song\u2019s horntastic beat goes batshit crazy, the 22-year-old French-Congolese laments the drawbacks of her bodacious physique. \u201cC\u2019est \u00e0 cause d\u2019mon fiak, il \u00e9loigne trop mes g\u2019noux\/ Et mes gros seins me font souvent mal au cou,\u201d or, in English, \u201cMy ass, it pulls my knees too far apart\/ And my big titties often hurt my neck.&#8221;\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            \u201cEverybody was like, <i>Oh, your ass is not that big,<\/i>\u2019\u201d Theodora says of some of the initial reactions she received from the song. \u201cBut that was only the boys. The girls was like, <i>\u2018Oh, I think I know what she means.<\/i> Everything was about fun and making fun of my insecurities. Which are the insecurities of most young girls, I think.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Theodora would know. Growing up as a \u201cweird Black girl\u201d in the countryside of France, she\u2019s been able to turn that trait into a superpower as the country\u2019s brightest young starlet. When we connect over a video call this summer she\u2019s on break in Paris for a few days before she\u2019ll fly to Belgium to play her second of at least <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DKC7JR8CSKx\/?hl=en\">20 European music festivals<\/a> this year, a life change she still can\u2019t quite believe.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"content_block flush image\" id=\"content_block-275810\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06441_o7plk0\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06441_o7plk0\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06441_o7plk0\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06441_o7plk0\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06441_o7plk0\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06441_o7plk0\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06441_o7plk0\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06441_o7plk0\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06441_o7plk0\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06441_o7plk0\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06441_o7plk0\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Theodora\u2019s globe-trotting pop is France right now\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275820\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            \u201cA year ago I was nobody. And today, I have people saying to me, \u2018I\u2019m so fond of your music,\u2019\u201d she says, incredulously while rolling a blunt, her hair out of its usual bimbo bleach-blond wig and laid neatly against her scalp in twists. \u201cI\u2019m like, <i>how do you even understand what I&#8217;m saying?<\/i> It\u2019s not weird, but it\u2019s like, <i>oh damn, it\u2019s crazy.<\/i>\u201d She takes a beat for emphasis. \u201cYeah, it&#8217;s <i>crazy<\/i>.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Now that Theodora has become certifiably famous in France, she\u2019s more conscious about wearing her favorite wigs. \u201cI\u2019m doing more natural hair styles with afro texture or something like that, because I know that I&#8217;m changing many minds. Many minds of little Black girls,\u201d she tells me. There\u2019s a lot more she has to think about now: When she goes on radio shows and code switches to \u201cintellectual French,\u201d as she puts it; and at press interviews, when she has to decide how she\u2019ll respond to \u201cmicroaggressive\u201d questions that compare her to the other few French Black women singers.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            In the last decade, France has fielded only one dark-skin Black woman superstar: the French-Malian singer Aya Nakamura, who still faces racism to an unconscionable degree. (After Nakamura was announced to be performing at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony, one of France\u2019s far-right groups protested with a racist banner that read: \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/police-and-justice\/article\/2025\/06\/04\/thirteen-go-on-trial-in-france-over-racist-insult-targeting-singer-aya-nakamura_6741990_105.html\">No way, Aya, this is Paris, not the Bamako market.<\/a>\u201d) Coming up in the post-Nakamura spotlight, Theodora\u2019s rise is exemplary not because it\u2019s still a rarity, but because she and her music move as if they weren\u2019t fighting a ceaseless current \u2014 even if it still wears her down.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-275826,  #content_block-275826 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-275826 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #ed40fd;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275826\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left pull_quote\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"pull_quote\"><p><big>I know that I\u2019m changing <b><u>many minds<\/u><\/b>. Many minds of little Black girls.<\/big><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275816\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left embed\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THEODORA - KONGOLESE SOUS BBL (FT. JEEZ SUAVE)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d2tnwgcBfoA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275822\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            \u201cWhen you\u2019re a Black girl and you are making music in France, you have to, like, fight five times more. Because nobody likes Black girls,\u201d she says soberly, her English roped thickly inside a French accent. \u201cIf I didn\u2019t hold my place there, you wouldn\u2019t see me because we are in a racist country.\u201d \n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275811\" class=\"content_block diptych triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper half_gutter_right gutter_btm\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_760,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06397_vsi12z\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg\" 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1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06424_nnvc7t\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06424_nnvc7t\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 50vw\" alt=\"Theodora\u2019s globe-trotting pop is France right now\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275818\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06623_rxqcbd\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06623_rxqcbd\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06623_rxqcbd\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06623_rxqcbd\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06623_rxqcbd\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06623_rxqcbd\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06623_rxqcbd\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06623_rxqcbd\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06623_rxqcbd\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06623_rxqcbd\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06623_rxqcbd\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Theodora\u2019s globe-trotting pop is France right now\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275821\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            A self-professed \u201cbimbo since birth,\u201d Lili-Th\u00e9odora Mbangayo Mujinga was actually born in Switzerland to a Congolese father whose career as a military medical practitioner moved her and her brother to Greece, Switzerland, France, and R\u00e9union Island off the coast of Madagascar. She was a teenager when they made their final move back to a small town in the countryside of France, and she\u2019d already fostered a hobby of making music at home with her brother. All the years bouncing around had turned her into an increasingly <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>ly avoidant teen.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            But she still loved to party. During lockdown, when she could no longer do so, Theodora and her brother, Jeez Suave, made her first-ever project, <i><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/7uU3BwxeLwPDVtinllgOYb?_authfailed=1\">Neptune<\/a><\/i>, a tr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>y rap EP that motivated her to begin taking music seriously. By the time she was back spending nights in the club, she was formulating a new sound incorporating pop, R&amp;B, drum and bass, afrobeats, Creole folk music, and bouyon, a genre born from francophone descendants in the Caribbean. This is what\u2019s all over her 2024 record <i>BAD BOY LOVESTORY<\/i>, whose bouyon-indebted single \u201cKONGOLESE SOUS BBL\u201d first took off like dynamite on TikTok.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"content_block flush image\" id=\"content_block-275812\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06619-2_yfjtyb\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06619-2_yfjtyb\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06619-2_yfjtyb\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06619-2_yfjtyb\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06619-2_yfjtyb\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06619-2_yfjtyb\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06619-2_yfjtyb\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06619-2_yfjtyb\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06619-2_yfjtyb\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06619-2_yfjtyb\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06619-2_yfjtyb\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Theodora\u2019s globe-trotting pop is France right now\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275827\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left pull_quote\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"pull_quote\"><p><big>If I didn\u2019t hold my place there, you wouldn\u2019t see me <b><u>because we are in a racist country.<\/u><\/b> <\/big><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275813\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06624_qhvrig\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06624_qhvrig\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06624_qhvrig\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06624_qhvrig\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06624_qhvrig\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06624_qhvrig\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06624_qhvrig\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06624_qhvrig\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06624_qhvrig\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06624_qhvrig\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06624_qhvrig\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Theodora\u2019s globe-trotting pop is France right now\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275817\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THEODORA - MON B\u00c9B\u00c9 (Free kitty version)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NnUpQgYhN-0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275823\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            \u201cWhen you are a diaspora kid in France, we are going out in spaces mixed up [with] everything. In black clubs you have bouyon, you have Afro-Caribbean music,\u201d she says of her music. \u201cI think my music is about the meetup of different words in the same place.\u201d In France, she fronts a wave of French artists pushing the sound of bouyon in her country and beyond (something that has also <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@steevyfeelings\/video\/7438664992720735520\">garnered<\/a> her pushback).\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Theodora\u2019s sexuality, her embrace and shameless flaunting of it, also informs a large part of her music. The aforementioned \u201cKONGOLESE SOUS BBL\u201d is an obvious example. But the staggeringly sticky \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NnUpQgYhN-0?si=IalR39nyUVdjThFJ\">Mon B\u00e9b\u00e9<\/a>,\u201d is even more shameless and filled with seemingly queer-coded imagery. \u201cSkinny waist, spicy babe, I love your taste\/ Boss lady therefore shout my name,\u201d is a rough English translation of a lyric. With her stage outfits, Theodora exclusively works in lingerie, bikinis, corsets, and inventively draped fabrics that cover censor-demanded areas and nothing else.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275814\" class=\"content_block diptych triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper half_gutter_right gutter_btm\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_760,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06659_xkst3h\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg\" 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alive because I think sometime in my life, I didn\u2019t enjoy my life. I really don\u2019t wanna lose this part of my life of becoming a big international star.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Previously, she had told a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/numero.com\/en\/culture-en\/music\/interview-with-theodora-the-hitmaker-who-once-dreamed-of-a-political-career\/\">reporter<\/a> that if she wasn\u2019t making music she\u2019d be a politician, though she\u2019s changed her mind about that now. Living in a country that\u2019s perpetually fighting a rising tide of fascism, she&#8217;s exhausted by the prospect. And besides, \u201cI think I can have more power in music than in politics,\u201d she says. Her 2026 itinerary already whirrs with plans indebted to that goal: touring the world, meeting her idols, going to the Caribbean \u2014 \u201cI have to go back to the source of these influences to make music,\u201d she says \u2014 more partying, and maybe a visit to the U.S. She pauses, breathless, after listing it all.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            \u201cAnd I&#8217;m gonna have sex too, because I&#8217;m about that.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275815\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06664_ksfltt\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06664_ksfltt\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06664_ksfltt\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06664_ksfltt\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06664_ksfltt\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06664_ksfltt\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06664_ksfltt\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06664_ksfltt\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06664_ksfltt\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06664_ksfltt\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/lieselfrth-theodora-the-fader-DSC06664_ksfltt\/theodora-kongolese-sous-bbl-singer-interview.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Theodora\u2019s globe-trotting pop is France right now\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Steffanee Wang<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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