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Played this at last month's sweet 16. Playing it at tomorrow's grad. This song isn't exactly "lose control", but it's in the same league.
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How 'Truth Hurts' became Lizzo's breakout hit two years after its release
EW talked to key players helping push Lizzo's "Truth Hurts" up the Billboard Hot 100 chart, including director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, BET Head of Programming Connie Orlando, and radio host Elvis Duran.
By Marcus Jones
July 17, 2019 at 08:11 PM EDT
FBTwitter
LIZZO/YOUTUBE
Last week, the exuberant rapper, singer, and flutist Lizzo hit a new peak in her breakout year when one of her singles finally reached the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. Strangely though, the song that went the distance wasn’t “Juice,” the funky first single off her third studio album Cuz I Love You. Nor was it “Tempo,” her dream-come-true body-positive banger featuring her icon Missy Elliott. It wasn’t even a song off the new record. Instead, it was “Truth Hurts,” a one-off single released all the way back in September 2017. The answer to how an almost-two-year-old track ended up a 2019 Song of the Summer candidate involves an app used for lip-syncing videos, a Netflix movie, a spate of entertaining performances, and, of course, one musician built for stardom.
In 2018, Lizzo was just beginning to figure out how to leverage viral fame. While attending BeautyCon NYC in April, she posted a video fully feeling herself after her hair was styled, not yet knowing the full potential of her “Bye Bitch” kicker. Twenty-four hours later, she had already caught on to the success of the clip, using “Bye Bitch” to reflect fans’ feelings about rapper Kanye West getting President Donald Trump to sign his MAGA hat. The same thing happened again in October 2018, when Lizzo posted a video captioned “have u ever seen a bitch play flute then hit the shoot?” The post showed her freestyling on the flute, and then hitting the viral “Shoot dance” popularized by rapper Blockboy JB, each movement punctuated by a visceral “Bitch.” The video became an instant classic, and within a week she released a single referencing the moment. Lizzo becoming a full-on internet meme queen would eventually play a key component in “Truth Hurts’” top 10 debut.
At the start of 2019, Lizzo was doing more press than ever, from magazine covers to a game-changing performance on The Ellen Show. The sudden influx of exposure is maybe the best explanation for how fans dipped back into her catalog to find “Truth Hurts.” Starting in February, the song made its way to the social media platform TikTok (most famous for turning “Old Town Road” into a worldwide smash) where it helped launch a challenge called the #DNAtest, a reference to Lizzo’s opening lyrics, “I just took a DNA test/ Turns out I’m 100 percent that bitch.” The way the meme works is a user would play that line of the song, cut it off at “that bitch,” and replace it with whatever audio conveys the identity they want to portray.
#DNATest would take around a month to pick up steam, but by April it was inescapable when opening the app, accumulating 162 million views.
Meanwhile, the Netflix film Someone Great — a comedy starring Gina Rodriguez as a successful millennial woman roaming the streets of New York City with her two best friends as a way to cope with her breakup — used “Truth Hurts” in a trailer in early March (the movie was released April 19). The song also shows up in a breakout scene, where Rodriguez’s drunken, pantsless character raps and dances through the depression of a recent breakup.
“There is no better song in my opinion when you just want to put your middle fingers out to the world — especially to men — and just dance in the kitchen without pants on,” the film’s writer/director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson tells EW.
Given that “Truth Hurts” is not only playing in Someone Great but has the characters singing along to it on camera, Lizzo and her label Atlantic Records enthusiastically signed off on Robinson using the track in the film. The director was also in agreement with Netflix about using it in the trailer. But that soon became a roadblock. “There was an issue with the splits and licensing, so what we were able to license for the movie actually didn’t translate over to the trailer,” says Robinson. “[So] we had to re-license it and we almost didn’t get the song [for the commercial].” But it all worked out in the end, with the film helping launch the song onto the Spotify charts. Netflix also posted the scene by itself on YouTube (the video currently has over a million views).
Once Spotify recognized the song, its popularity hit a whole new level. Lizzo became a staple of summer music festival season, which soon lead to nationally televised performances.
“I loved it from when we started talking to the label back in April/May,” BET Head of Programming Connie Orlando says of “Truth Hurts,” having booked Lizzo to perform the track at the 2019 BET Awards. “She does it all…. She’s about empowerment, she’s about inclusion, she’s about confidence, and those are things that we look for in artists.”
Though Lizzo brought the house down at the MTV Awards the week prior with a Sister Act 2-inspired performance of “Juice,” her BET Awards performance was on a higher scale. Kicking it off on top of a giant wedding cake, Lizzo pulled zero punches, bringing an energy strong enough to convince the audience to yell lines like “That’s ok, he already in my DMs,” back at her. But what pushed it past her “Juice” performance the week prior — and won over a crowd that included Rihanna, Tyler Perry, and T.I. — was her fiery flute solo.
“Everyone was on their feet,” notes Orlando, “It was incredible. One of my favorite performances of this year’s show and whatever BET can do to support her, we are here for it all.” While Orlando agrees Lizzo was a natural fit for the show, the performance was also a big affirming step for the performer who came up in a Minneapolis music scene still dominated by white men and was first placed in an alternative box opening for acts like Har Mar Superstar. “For a long time I didn’t want to be that big black girl with a soulful voice,” Lizzo told EW earlier this year. “That’s how we were tokenized — the big black girls were always the belters, and I’ve always been afraid of being put into that box. But you know what? I’m a big, fat black girl that can sing, and I can rap, and I can dance. I started to embrace how good I can finally sing, and now I’m celebrating that.”
“Truth Hurts” eventually entered the Hot 100 chart in May at No. 50, debuting 43 spots higher than “Juice” at its peak. Earlier this month, it reached No. 6 (it’s now sitting at No. 7) and this week it achieved the greatest airplay gainer of the week while entering the top 10 of Billboard’s Radio Songs chart. Veteran morning radio host Elvis Duran of Z100 told EW that “while I think ‘Juice’ was more of a pop-forward single, ‘Truth Hurts’ feels like more of a Lizzo song. Her humor on the track shines through and is now connecting with audiences almost three years after it was originally released.”
Robinson, Orlando, and Duran are all in agreement that, through her magnetic personality, humor, flute skills, and pure musical talent, Lizzo has a long musical career ahead of her. But with “Truth Hurts,” Robinson explains, “the song just needed the exposure.”
“It all kind of lined up [for the song],” she explains, between the TikTok phenomenon, its pivotal role in Someone Great, and the musician’s showstopping performances, “but it’s all funneled through her talent … None of it would exist without what is at the core of all of this, which is the fact that ‘Truth Hurts’ is an incredible song.”
EW talked to key players helping push Lizzo's "Truth Hurts" up the Billboard Hot 100 chart, including director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, BET Head of Programming Connie Orlando, and radio host Elvis Duran.
By Marcus Jones
July 17, 2019 at 08:11 PM EDT
FBTwitter
LIZZO/YOUTUBE
Last week, the exuberant rapper, singer, and flutist Lizzo hit a new peak in her breakout year when one of her singles finally reached the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. Strangely though, the song that went the distance wasn’t “Juice,” the funky first single off her third studio album Cuz I Love You. Nor was it “Tempo,” her dream-come-true body-positive banger featuring her icon Missy Elliott. It wasn’t even a song off the new record. Instead, it was “Truth Hurts,” a one-off single released all the way back in September 2017. The answer to how an almost-two-year-old track ended up a 2019 Song of the Summer candidate involves an app used for lip-syncing videos, a Netflix movie, a spate of entertaining performances, and, of course, one musician built for stardom.
In 2018, Lizzo was just beginning to figure out how to leverage viral fame. While attending BeautyCon NYC in April, she posted a video fully feeling herself after her hair was styled, not yet knowing the full potential of her “Bye Bitch” kicker. Twenty-four hours later, she had already caught on to the success of the clip, using “Bye Bitch” to reflect fans’ feelings about rapper Kanye West getting President Donald Trump to sign his MAGA hat. The same thing happened again in October 2018, when Lizzo posted a video captioned “have u ever seen a bitch play flute then hit the shoot?” The post showed her freestyling on the flute, and then hitting the viral “Shoot dance” popularized by rapper Blockboy JB, each movement punctuated by a visceral “Bitch.” The video became an instant classic, and within a week she released a single referencing the moment. Lizzo becoming a full-on internet meme queen would eventually play a key component in “Truth Hurts’” top 10 debut.
At the start of 2019, Lizzo was doing more press than ever, from magazine covers to a game-changing performance on The Ellen Show. The sudden influx of exposure is maybe the best explanation for how fans dipped back into her catalog to find “Truth Hurts.” Starting in February, the song made its way to the social media platform TikTok (most famous for turning “Old Town Road” into a worldwide smash) where it helped launch a challenge called the #DNAtest, a reference to Lizzo’s opening lyrics, “I just took a DNA test/ Turns out I’m 100 percent that bitch.” The way the meme works is a user would play that line of the song, cut it off at “that bitch,” and replace it with whatever audio conveys the identity they want to portray.
#DNATest would take around a month to pick up steam, but by April it was inescapable when opening the app, accumulating 162 million views.
Meanwhile, the Netflix film Someone Great — a comedy starring Gina Rodriguez as a successful millennial woman roaming the streets of New York City with her two best friends as a way to cope with her breakup — used “Truth Hurts” in a trailer in early March (the movie was released April 19). The song also shows up in a breakout scene, where Rodriguez’s drunken, pantsless character raps and dances through the depression of a recent breakup.
“There is no better song in my opinion when you just want to put your middle fingers out to the world — especially to men — and just dance in the kitchen without pants on,” the film’s writer/director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson tells EW.
Given that “Truth Hurts” is not only playing in Someone Great but has the characters singing along to it on camera, Lizzo and her label Atlantic Records enthusiastically signed off on Robinson using the track in the film. The director was also in agreement with Netflix about using it in the trailer. But that soon became a roadblock. “There was an issue with the splits and licensing, so what we were able to license for the movie actually didn’t translate over to the trailer,” says Robinson. “[So] we had to re-license it and we almost didn’t get the song [for the commercial].” But it all worked out in the end, with the film helping launch the song onto the Spotify charts. Netflix also posted the scene by itself on YouTube (the video currently has over a million views).
Once Spotify recognized the song, its popularity hit a whole new level. Lizzo became a staple of summer music festival season, which soon lead to nationally televised performances.
“I loved it from when we started talking to the label back in April/May,” BET Head of Programming Connie Orlando says of “Truth Hurts,” having booked Lizzo to perform the track at the 2019 BET Awards. “She does it all…. She’s about empowerment, she’s about inclusion, she’s about confidence, and those are things that we look for in artists.”
Though Lizzo brought the house down at the MTV Awards the week prior with a Sister Act 2-inspired performance of “Juice,” her BET Awards performance was on a higher scale. Kicking it off on top of a giant wedding cake, Lizzo pulled zero punches, bringing an energy strong enough to convince the audience to yell lines like “That’s ok, he already in my DMs,” back at her. But what pushed it past her “Juice” performance the week prior — and won over a crowd that included Rihanna, Tyler Perry, and T.I. — was her fiery flute solo.
“Everyone was on their feet,” notes Orlando, “It was incredible. One of my favorite performances of this year’s show and whatever BET can do to support her, we are here for it all.” While Orlando agrees Lizzo was a natural fit for the show, the performance was also a big affirming step for the performer who came up in a Minneapolis music scene still dominated by white men and was first placed in an alternative box opening for acts like Har Mar Superstar. “For a long time I didn’t want to be that big black girl with a soulful voice,” Lizzo told EW earlier this year. “That’s how we were tokenized — the big black girls were always the belters, and I’ve always been afraid of being put into that box. But you know what? I’m a big, fat black girl that can sing, and I can rap, and I can dance. I started to embrace how good I can finally sing, and now I’m celebrating that.”
“Truth Hurts” eventually entered the Hot 100 chart in May at No. 50, debuting 43 spots higher than “Juice” at its peak. Earlier this month, it reached No. 6 (it’s now sitting at No. 7) and this week it achieved the greatest airplay gainer of the week while entering the top 10 of Billboard’s Radio Songs chart. Veteran morning radio host Elvis Duran of Z100 told EW that “while I think ‘Juice’ was more of a pop-forward single, ‘Truth Hurts’ feels like more of a Lizzo song. Her humor on the track shines through and is now connecting with audiences almost three years after it was originally released.”
Robinson, Orlando, and Duran are all in agreement that, through her magnetic personality, humor, flute skills, and pure musical talent, Lizzo has a long musical career ahead of her. But with “Truth Hurts,” Robinson explains, “the song just needed the exposure.”
“It all kind of lined up [for the song],” she explains, between the TikTok phenomenon, its pivotal role in Someone Great, and the musician’s showstopping performances, “but it’s all funneled through her talent … None of it would exist without what is at the core of all of this, which is the fact that ‘Truth Hurts’ is an incredible song.”
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/29/732097345/lizzo-tiny-desk-concert
Lizzo: Tiny Desk Concert
July 29, 20195:00 AM ET
STEPHEN THOMPSON
Twitter
00:02
16:59
Credit: NPR/Claire Harbage
Lots of musicians cut corners during sound check. It's a time to make sure everyone's in tune and in balance, everyone's blocked properly for the cameras, and every piece of recording equipment is doing its job the way it's supposed to, but it's not as if anyone's rolling tape for posterity. Sometimes, Tiny Desk artists do their sound check in shabby street clothes before ducking into the green room to don their fancy performance wear. It's standard procedure, and no big deal at all.
MUSIC INTERVIEWS
Lizzo On Feminism, Self-Love And Bringing 'Hallelujah Moments' To Stage
But from the second Lizzo entered the room, fresh off a long interview with Fresh Air's Terry Gross, she was on: all charm, vibrant and gracious, dressed to the nines and ready to sing her face off. In rehearsal, Lizzo belted out "Cuz I Love You," the title track from her wonderful new album, with nothing off her fastball; if you were standing six feet away at the time, you'd swear the gale force of her voice was blowing your hair back. She was the star and the mayor rolled into one, at once ingratiating and commanding, as an audience of maybe 25 milled around and prepared to let in the crowd.
Once we opened the room, there were as many people as we've ever had at a Tiny Desk concert, hanging on Lizzo's every word as she held court and waited for the cameras to roll. She literally needed no introduction; one of us usually says a few words and gets the crowd to applaud for the start of the performance, but Lizzo was master of ceremonies from the second she walked in. Naturally, she needed all of two seconds to blow everyone's hair back once more.
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Everything around the singer must have felt alien to her, starting with "this tiny-ass desk" and continuing through the crowd — perched mere feet away, with only a bit of office furniture and a few cameras as a barrier — and a backing band assembled, at Bob Boilen's request, just for the occasion. Lizzo usually performs with dancers and a backing track; the former, though much-missed here, stood in the crowd and bobbed along, while the latter got mothballed in favor of slyly funky arrangements. Together, Lizzo and that brand-new band preside over three songs from Cuz I Love You: the aforementioned title track, "Truth Hurts" (so winning, in spite of its repeated references to the Minnesota Vikings) and the literal and figurative show-stopper, "Juice," which gave her the opportunity to pick up the flute she'd been waiting the whole set to bust out.
SET LIST
Lizzo: vocals, flute; Devin Johnson: keyboard; Dana Hawkins: drums; Vernon Prout: bass; Walter Williams: guitar
CREDITS
Lizzo: Tiny Desk Concert
July 29, 20195:00 AM ET
STEPHEN THOMPSON
00:02
16:59
Credit: NPR/Claire Harbage
Lots of musicians cut corners during sound check. It's a time to make sure everyone's in tune and in balance, everyone's blocked properly for the cameras, and every piece of recording equipment is doing its job the way it's supposed to, but it's not as if anyone's rolling tape for posterity. Sometimes, Tiny Desk artists do their sound check in shabby street clothes before ducking into the green room to don their fancy performance wear. It's standard procedure, and no big deal at all.
MUSIC INTERVIEWS
Lizzo On Feminism, Self-Love And Bringing 'Hallelujah Moments' To Stage
But from the second Lizzo entered the room, fresh off a long interview with Fresh Air's Terry Gross, she was on: all charm, vibrant and gracious, dressed to the nines and ready to sing her face off. In rehearsal, Lizzo belted out "Cuz I Love You," the title track from her wonderful new album, with nothing off her fastball; if you were standing six feet away at the time, you'd swear the gale force of her voice was blowing your hair back. She was the star and the mayor rolled into one, at once ingratiating and commanding, as an audience of maybe 25 milled around and prepared to let in the crowd.
Once we opened the room, there were as many people as we've ever had at a Tiny Desk concert, hanging on Lizzo's every word as she held court and waited for the cameras to roll. She literally needed no introduction; one of us usually says a few words and gets the crowd to applaud for the start of the performance, but Lizzo was master of ceremonies from the second she walked in. Naturally, she needed all of two seconds to blow everyone's hair back once more.
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This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Everything around the singer must have felt alien to her, starting with "this tiny-ass desk" and continuing through the crowd — perched mere feet away, with only a bit of office furniture and a few cameras as a barrier — and a backing band assembled, at Bob Boilen's request, just for the occasion. Lizzo usually performs with dancers and a backing track; the former, though much-missed here, stood in the crowd and bobbed along, while the latter got mothballed in favor of slyly funky arrangements. Together, Lizzo and that brand-new band preside over three songs from Cuz I Love You: the aforementioned title track, "Truth Hurts" (so winning, in spite of its repeated references to the Minnesota Vikings) and the literal and figurative show-stopper, "Juice," which gave her the opportunity to pick up the flute she'd been waiting the whole set to bust out.
SET LIST
- "Cuz I Love You"
- "Truth Hurts"
- "Juice"
Lizzo: vocals, flute; Devin Johnson: keyboard; Dana Hawkins: drums; Vernon Prout: bass; Walter Williams: guitar
CREDITS
On Lizzo’s Cuz I Love You, Finally, a Star Is Born
By Craig Jenkins@CraigSJ
Lizzo’s confidence is a ray beam. Photo: Rich Fury/Getty Images for Coachella
Loving yourself is work. Being your own guide is exhausting. They don’t necessarily teach this in school. In Head Start, I had an instructor who led my class in a performance of the Whitney Houston version of “Greatest Love of All” at a recital for parents. We rehearsed so much that the lyrics are still branded in my brain. As a 5-year-old, I thought I was singing a happy song. “The children are our future.” That was me! I didn’t grasp what I was saying. “Everybody’s searching for a hero / People need someone to look up to / I never found anyone who fulfill my needs / A lonely place to be / And so I learned to depend on me.” That’s dark! I’m only just now starting to get what it means, some 30 years later. You have to be your own quarterback and your own cheerleader sometimes. Doubting yourself is easy when there are people betting against you, when political rhetoric makes you feel lesser, and the future seems foggy and uncertain. Believing that you’re better than the worst that you hear about yourself is a job all to itself.
Lizzo makes all of this sound fun. She’s an excellent singer, rapper, dancer, flautist, and humorist crafting upbeat, honest songs about appreciating what you’re worth. The midwestern polymath’s third album, this week’s vibrant Cuz I Love You, is a half-hour pep talk crystallizing the themes of self-sufficiency that she’s been playing at since early records like “Pants vs. Dress” and “Scuse Me” into an encouraging message of peace and self-love. Cuz I Love You marries the slick rhyme schemes of 2013’s Lizzobangers with the funk and soul underpinnings that made 2016’s Coconut Oil EP seem perfect for radio and commercials. Lizzo’s confidence is a ray beam. She wrote the new album’s best love song about herself. “Soulmate” advises against waiting for others to shower us with the attention and appreciation we all crave: “True love ain’t something you can buy yourself / True love finally happens when you by yourself / So if you by yourself, then go and buy yourself / Another round from the bottle on the higher shelf.”
rock songs that don’t exactly rock — but Lizzo flips the script by having them play muscular hip-hop/soul instead. Cuz I Love You is both retro and modern in the same way that Bruno Mars and Janelle Monáe tracks revisit the music of the past through contemporary sensibilities. “Like a Girl” mixes trap with gospel as Lizzo flips the old “you throw like a girl” snap inside out by celebrating the accomplishments of the gifted women in music who inspired her. On “Cry Baby,” she’s an annoyed lover and a fierce rock-band leader. On “Tempo,” she’s a formidable partner-in-rhyme for the legendary Missy Elliott. The range is impressive.
Lizzo resists labels, both creatively and quite literally in the second verse of the food/sex rap workout “Better in Color.” You don’t have to try to figure out how to file her music, her gender, or her sexuality. You just have to watch her work. Cuz I Love You is a playground for a phenomenal talent reaching the peak of its powers. Lizzo whoops and chortles through these beats with unnatural ease. Keeping up is like beating back the wind, like Jon Snow getting whipped through stony Winterfell peaks trying to ride a dragon. Gucci Mane can barely keep up on “Exactly How I Feel.” Lizzo is a joy, andCuz I Love You is an impressive portfolio, showcasing the chops of a singer who nails all the notes, a rapper with alchemical control over words, and a songwriter holding nothing back. She can make lounging around in underwear sound revelatory. She can make masturbation seem like a political act. If you’re having a rough week watching the rule of law crumble, let Cuz I Love You rebuild your mettle.
By Craig Jenkins@CraigSJ
Lizzo’s confidence is a ray beam. Photo: Rich Fury/Getty Images for Coachella
Loving yourself is work. Being your own guide is exhausting. They don’t necessarily teach this in school. In Head Start, I had an instructor who led my class in a performance of the Whitney Houston version of “Greatest Love of All” at a recital for parents. We rehearsed so much that the lyrics are still branded in my brain. As a 5-year-old, I thought I was singing a happy song. “The children are our future.” That was me! I didn’t grasp what I was saying. “Everybody’s searching for a hero / People need someone to look up to / I never found anyone who fulfill my needs / A lonely place to be / And so I learned to depend on me.” That’s dark! I’m only just now starting to get what it means, some 30 years later. You have to be your own quarterback and your own cheerleader sometimes. Doubting yourself is easy when there are people betting against you, when political rhetoric makes you feel lesser, and the future seems foggy and uncertain. Believing that you’re better than the worst that you hear about yourself is a job all to itself.
Lizzo makes all of this sound fun. She’s an excellent singer, rapper, dancer, flautist, and humorist crafting upbeat, honest songs about appreciating what you’re worth. The midwestern polymath’s third album, this week’s vibrant Cuz I Love You, is a half-hour pep talk crystallizing the themes of self-sufficiency that she’s been playing at since early records like “Pants vs. Dress” and “Scuse Me” into an encouraging message of peace and self-love. Cuz I Love You marries the slick rhyme schemes of 2013’s Lizzobangers with the funk and soul underpinnings that made 2016’s Coconut Oil EP seem perfect for radio and commercials. Lizzo’s confidence is a ray beam. She wrote the new album’s best love song about herself. “Soulmate” advises against waiting for others to shower us with the attention and appreciation we all crave: “True love ain’t something you can buy yourself / True love finally happens when you by yourself / So if you by yourself, then go and buy yourself / Another round from the bottle on the higher shelf.”
rock songs that don’t exactly rock — but Lizzo flips the script by having them play muscular hip-hop/soul instead. Cuz I Love You is both retro and modern in the same way that Bruno Mars and Janelle Monáe tracks revisit the music of the past through contemporary sensibilities. “Like a Girl” mixes trap with gospel as Lizzo flips the old “you throw like a girl” snap inside out by celebrating the accomplishments of the gifted women in music who inspired her. On “Cry Baby,” she’s an annoyed lover and a fierce rock-band leader. On “Tempo,” she’s a formidable partner-in-rhyme for the legendary Missy Elliott. The range is impressive.
Lizzo resists labels, both creatively and quite literally in the second verse of the food/sex rap workout “Better in Color.” You don’t have to try to figure out how to file her music, her gender, or her sexuality. You just have to watch her work. Cuz I Love You is a playground for a phenomenal talent reaching the peak of its powers. Lizzo whoops and chortles through these beats with unnatural ease. Keeping up is like beating back the wind, like Jon Snow getting whipped through stony Winterfell peaks trying to ride a dragon. Gucci Mane can barely keep up on “Exactly How I Feel.” Lizzo is a joy, andCuz I Love You is an impressive portfolio, showcasing the chops of a singer who nails all the notes, a rapper with alchemical control over words, and a songwriter holding nothing back. She can make lounging around in underwear sound revelatory. She can make masturbation seem like a political act. If you’re having a rough week watching the rule of law crumble, let Cuz I Love You rebuild your mettle.
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Lizzo Earns Her First Billboard No. 1, Feeling Good As Hell
By Zoe Haylock@zoe_alliyah
Fresh photos with the bomb lighting. Photo: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Coachella
Lizzbians, rejoice! Lizzo, the rapper-songwriter-flutist who loves you more than you love yourself, just earned her very first Billboard No. 1 song with “Truth Hurts.” She arrives at her throne just two weeks after Billie Eilish usurped the spotfrom 19-week legend Lil Nas X. Guess she’s the bad guy now! “Truth Hurts” and its infectious piano-driven beat first arrived in 2017, and after it was featured in the Netflix movie Someone Great, it was added to the deluxe version of Lizzo’s debut album, Cuz I Love You. Since then, it has only grown more popular. Pulling a Lil Nas X herself, Lizzo invited rapper DaBaby for a “Truth Hurts” remix. Under Billboard’s remix rules, all versions of a song can count toward the original’s chart movement, so the song definitely got a boost from anyone curious to hear what DaBaby has to say on track about being a bad bitch. This makes Lizzo the sixth female rapper ever to have a No. 1 on the Hot 100 chart: Lauryn Hill, Lil’ Kim, Cardi B, Shawnna, and Iggy Azalea came before her. The 31-year-old artist celebrated her success on Twitter and dedicated it to anyone who has ever felt like less than the royalty they are
Next week, Lizzo appears in the new movie Hustlers alongside Cardi B, Jennifer Lopez, Constance Wu, and Julia Stiles. Truly, nothing can stop her now.
By Zoe Haylock@zoe_alliyah
Fresh photos with the bomb lighting. Photo: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Coachella
Lizzbians, rejoice! Lizzo, the rapper-songwriter-flutist who loves you more than you love yourself, just earned her very first Billboard No. 1 song with “Truth Hurts.” She arrives at her throne just two weeks after Billie Eilish usurped the spotfrom 19-week legend Lil Nas X. Guess she’s the bad guy now! “Truth Hurts” and its infectious piano-driven beat first arrived in 2017, and after it was featured in the Netflix movie Someone Great, it was added to the deluxe version of Lizzo’s debut album, Cuz I Love You. Since then, it has only grown more popular. Pulling a Lil Nas X herself, Lizzo invited rapper DaBaby for a “Truth Hurts” remix. Under Billboard’s remix rules, all versions of a song can count toward the original’s chart movement, so the song definitely got a boost from anyone curious to hear what DaBaby has to say on track about being a bad bitch. This makes Lizzo the sixth female rapper ever to have a No. 1 on the Hot 100 chart: Lauryn Hill, Lil’ Kim, Cardi B, Shawnna, and Iggy Azalea came before her. The 31-year-old artist celebrated her success on Twitter and dedicated it to anyone who has ever felt like less than the royalty they are
Next week, Lizzo appears in the new movie Hustlers alongside Cardi B, Jennifer Lopez, Constance Wu, and Julia Stiles. Truly, nothing can stop her now.
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