What followed was a celebration of womanhood, sisterhood and any other kind of hood you can imagine. Women with thighs that slammed against each other and bellies that jiggled with unapologetic joy stomped emphatically around the set. When one plus-size model in a sheer baby doll smock and knickers shook her hips and flicked her hair to camera, the crowd erupted with cheers and applause.

The dancers moved in a way you would expect from a troop that bowed down to the altar of Rihanna. They slid their lingerie-clad bodies along the floor, twerked their way around the stage and whipped their hair back and forth. All the necessary ingredients to what would ordinarily be considered a hypersexualised routine. Usually seen in the context of female backing dancers to a male artist centrepiece. Except this wasn’t that. It was a powerful reclaim of female sexuality, one that could not be drowned out even when the male performers Migos and DJ Khaled came on stage.

With each routine, the crowd’s cheering and applause grew louder. There was one plus-size dancer whose ability to not only move her body with such remarkable rigour, but also to whip her ponytail back and forth at such spectacular speed the whole room was visibly shook. I later found out the dancer is Amanda Lacount, and she’s my new idol.

Savage x Fenty is everything a lingerie show should be in 2019