Lizzo is opening up about her new music amid a yearslong authorized battle and why she indefinitely positioned a undertaking on maintain final yr.
Her extremely anticipated album is ready to be launched on June 5 and the singer hopes it empowers girls with using a single phrase.
“The album is named ‘Bitch,'” Lizzo mentioned. “After the music … I all the time have a title monitor.”
The album’s title monitor samples Meredith Brooks’ feminist anthem of the identical title in addition to Missy Elliott’s music, “She’s a Bitch.”
“I really feel like what each of these girls did was they pushed that phrase ahead in a method that empowered it, as a substitute of taking the facility away. Like that is a phrase that used to get hurled at girls,” Lizzo informed “CBS Mornings” co-host Gayle King in an unique interview. “It is my favourite phrase.”
“The reality will come out”
The Grammy winner’s new music comes amid her authorized bother.
In 2023, three of her former backup dancers filed a lawsuit towards the singer, alleging a hostile work surroundings and sexual harassment throughout her world tour. One dancer additionally claimed she was shamed for her weight.
The load shaming allegation was in the end dismissed.
However a number of the sexual harassment claims nonetheless stay, together with the dancers’ allegation that Lizzo pressured them to have interaction with nude performers at a burlesque membership in Amsterdam.
Lizzo is interesting that ruling and mentioned she is not going to settle.
“I am preventing the case as a result of I do know that it isn’t true,” she mentioned. “Similar to the fats shaming one is just not true.”
If the case goes to trial, Lizzo mentioned she’s able to testify, saying, “the reality will come out, and that is why I am not afraid of it.”
“The reality is much less salacious than the headlines,” she added.
Lizzo mentioned as a result of it’s an ongoing case, she will be able to’t speak concerning the particulars, however added she “can not look ahead to it to be dismissed.”
Final yr, the singer was set to launch one other studio album, “Love in Actual Life.” Two of the singles did not attain the Billboard charts and later the undertaking was placed on maintain indefinitely, which Lizzo mentioned was her determination.
“I did not delay something,” she mentioned. “I feel that I’ve been engaged on an album and I put a whole lot of stress on me for a very long time, and I feel what I realized final yr was like, I am right here to make music. I am right here to offer music to my followers.”
Weight reduction journey
Lizzo has additionally made headlines for her weight reduction journey.
“I launched the anxiousness I used to be going by way of. I launched melancholy and I additionally launched some weight on my physique.”
She mentioned she’s “not a thin individual” and isn’t making an attempt to be.
“I imply if I got here out in the present day as a model new artist with this physique, I’d nonetheless get the identical criticisms I acquired again in 2019.”
Responding to rumors that she used weight reduction medicines, Lizzo defined her weight reduction journey was carried out “with a calorie deficit, cardio and protein.”
However she admitted she tried a GLP-1 drug years in the past, and mentioned it did not work for her.
“I am terrified of needles and it simply didn’t work out for me,” she defined. “So once I determined to do the burden launch journey in 2023, which was years after, I used to be like, ‘I am gonna need to do it the quaint method.'”
Specializing in music
As for the longer term, the four-time Grammy winner mentioned she’s trying ahead to touring once more quickly.
“I do know the music is nice and I do know my coronary heart is nice,” she mentioned. “So if I do know that, I’ve nothing to fret about. Individuals are gonna say what they wanna say. They’re gonna suppose what they’re going to suppose.”
She mentioned believing in her coronary heart and craft she hopes to “encourage different folks to do it too.”
