Bed-Stuy Is The Backdrop For New Music Video 'Thunder Thighs'

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, BROOKLYN — A new music video from Bed-Stuy celebrates what hot weather will soon mean for many Brooklyn ladies — the "summer chub rub."

“Thunder Thighs," a new music video from local musician (not to mention artist, designer and director) Miss Eaves, was released on YouTube Monday, according to a Jezebel report.

The video of “Thunder Thighs” — a song about the pains and glories of walking around in the heat with thick legs — features the artist and a crew of not-wafer-thin women in Bed-Stuy dancing on local brownstone stoops and even next to Mr. Kiwi’s deli on Broadway and Myrtle Avenue.

The song will be released with Miss Eaves' next album Feminasty — a play on the term “Femi-Nasty” and an homage to the Janet Jackson lyric — which debuts on August 4, 2017.

The idea for “Thunder Thighs” came to Miss Eaves, whose real name is Shanthony Exum, when a walk around Bed-Stuy on a hot day caused what she called “summer chub rub,” the artist told Jezebel.

“Thanks to a lifetime of experience having thick thighs,” Miss Eaves said, “I was able to write the song in about an hour.”

Bed-Stuy plays a big part in the video — Miss Eaves told Jezebel she shot the video exclusively in the neighborhood where she lives and even corralled the local ice cream man to schedule his rounds around the shoot.

Miss Eaves also runs a style blog called The Every Body Project, which features fashion for all body types, to help girls who worry about being too big.

“It is so important from a young age they see a variety of bodies being celebrated and people living happy and genuine lives,” Miss Eaves told Jezebel.

This is the message behind the blog, the video and the album, according to Miss Eaves, who expressed this sentiment in blunter terms on her website.

Miss Eaves writes that Feminasty is a “funny-as-f--- cutting commentary" and promises it "will melt your brain into a nasty pile of feminism.”

Check out the full interview with Miss Eaves on Jezebel.com.

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