Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” just received a powerful queer twist.
Rapper-songwriter Chika, whose real name is Jane Oranika, rewrote the words to the British pop star’s smash hit song for Pride Month.
The 20-year-old from Montgomery, Alabama, shared a 59-second clip of her reworked track to Twitter on Tuesday, and it’s now going viral:
“I will not be ashamed, this is just who I am, and who I was meant to be,” raps Chika over the chorus section of the song.
She ends the chorus by encouraging people to “sing it out, sing it loud” and declaring that she’s “proud.”
Chika later posted a full version of her cover to Soundcloud:
Chika said she wanted the song to help make people “happy to be themselves.”
“Not only can we love other people holistically, we can love ourselves that way, too,” she told A Plus. “I especially wanted to reiterate that for Pride Month.”
Fellow Twitter users appear to have enjoyed her new version:
It’s not clear if Sheeran himself has heard the remix. HuffPost has reached out for comment. In the meantime, check out how Chika’s version compares to his original here:
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