Coco Jones Works For Herself - Nylon
She went viral for being "an employee." Now, the new version of the singer and actor is "very decisive, very opinionated, and very, very choosy."
In 2020, Coco Jones went live for 32 minutes on YouTube talking about her experience as a Disney Channel star, routinely passed over for roles for being a dark-skinned Black woman. Though she joked and switched accents and punctuated important points with a vocal-fried “period,” she also matter-of-factly walked viewers through the hurt and bitter realizations that would make a then-22-year-old think deeply about how they wanted to work — but also how they wanted to live. “And you would do it too for a check — I was an employee!” became the TikTok sound heard ’round the world, but four years later, Coco Jones is doing it for herself.
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