Moore, by her personal admission, by no means had a “ho phase.” But she understands why somebody would, and she or he needed to shift focus from the abstinence messages within the unique viral video. (“If I wasn’t married, honey,” she tells me over Zoom, “I would be deep in that ho phase right now.”) As “One Margarita” has unfold, she’s been delighted to see that individuals of all genders and all sexualities have made lip syncs to her tune. Many haven’t even shied away from the refrain’ nod to pegging: “Give me five margaritas, Imma have some fun/Give me five margaritas, Imma put it in your bun.” Given the various backlashes the LGBTQ+ group has confronted lately—boycotts over queer beer, a whole bunch of rights-stripping bills, threats made in opposition to drag brunches—she’s joyful her tune celebrating sexuality dropped in the beginning of Pride month. “I feel like there’s something of a revolution coming around, especially for women,” she says. “That was one of the reasons why when I heard the lyrics in my head as I was freestyling, I wanted to change the perspective.” 

The success of Moore’s tune additionally speaks to one thing else: a creator getting their due, particularly a Black lady creator. There’s a protracted historical past of the pattern and meme machine separating Black creators from the tradition they create, however as “One Margarita” proliferates, the observe Moore made with Terrell and Casa Di—and their names—have unfold with it. It hasn’t turn into a dance problem that took off separate from their tune, leaving them uncredited. As my colleague Jason Parham has written, TikTok is commonly rife with cultural appropriation. Tech, as we’re now seeing with AI, has a manner of scraping individuals’s inventive labor after which slicing them out. So far, that hasn’t occurred with “One Margarita.” 

“I’ve been a content creator for 13 years, and most of the time the stuff I do resonates with people that look like me,” Moore says. “This was one of the first times that I felt like some of my content was resonating a lot with people who look nothing like me. I’m seeing all these white girls, I’m seeing a bunch of queer people, I’m seeing fraternity boys. I was like, ‘Wait, oh my goodness!’”

Dixon and Terrell, who’ve been making music collectively since childhood, say that proper now, their purpose is to seek out another person so as to add one other verse to the tune. “People are, like, pitching their favourite artists. They’re saying ‘Oh, City Girls! Megan Thee Stallion! Lizzo!,” says Dixon. “The next phase is to have an artist on the song to take it to that next level.” 

As he says this, Moore bobs her head smiling. There are, she says, a lot of female rappers she’d wish to have on the tune, Lizzo included. “If any of them was like, ‘Can I get a piece of this?’” she says, “I’d be like ‘Come on, we have more margaritas.’” If the algorithms may help with something, let’s hope they get that message to the appropriate MC.