Lizzo and SZA have new music within the works.
Lizzo and SZA have new music within the works
The buddies – who beforehand teamed up on a remix of Lizzo’s tune Particular in 2023 – have been teasing clips from the studio engaged on one thing for Lizzo’s upcoming “mixtape”.
SZA captioned one submit on her Instagram Story: “Engaged on a visitor star for bookie Lizzo’s new mixtape [heart emoji].”
In a 2023 interview with UPROXX, SZA mentioned of their friendship: “Me and Lizzo, we’ve been buddies since, like, 2013, however it was very natural and really random. In the future we have been on the identical tour, and I used to be like, ‘We’re about to drive out to Lake Michigan, do you need to come?’ And she or he was like, ‘Yeah, let’s go.’ After which we simply acquired drunk and frolicked, and we stored doing that, after which our lives and careers progressed, and we stored speaking and hanging out. The opposite day, I went over to her home. My tummy was hurting as a result of I ate an excessive amount of, and he or she gave me a muumuu, and we simply laid within the yard and did nothing, and I used to be like, ‘Yeah, that is what the f*** friendship is about.’”
In March, Lizzo confirmed she had accomplished work on her new album Love in Actual Life.
The delighted star took to Instagram to inform followers about her productive day, after she “completed” her forthcoming fifth studio album.
She wrote: “ALBUM IS DONE YALL! ASTROLOGY EXPERTS Do my mercury acquired micro braids? Cus I acquired an emergency root canal, introduced SNL completed my album all in someday at present (sic)”
In the meantime, Lizzo lately expressed her fury over criticism of her new music – insisting unfavourable opinions of her tune Nonetheless Unhealthy, which was her first single from Love in Actual Life, are “lazy”.
Lizzo wrote on X: “Saying my model of ‘poptimism’ doesn’t work in a ‘submit Covid world’ is a lazy take … As if I didn’t launch ‘about rattling time’ submit pandemic …
“As if I didn’t write [her song] ‘About Rattling Time’ to be a submit lockdown anthem to encourage us to get exterior and collectively once more. And was profitable at it btw …
“Identical folks saying my music is ‘too optimistic’ would’ve been actual mad within the 60s at James Brown and Motown … “Nonetheless Unhealthy is a break-up tune with the world. It actually begins with me saying: ‘I’m bouta throw my cellphone away’ it’s a name to motion for the negativity we expertise on our telephones and the way we have to disengage and recenter. The women that get it, get it …
“Within the music video I’m actually taking my energy again from the ‘birds’ (tweets) that attempted to maintain me down with negativity …
“I feel seeing and listening to a black lady make actual music with radical pleasure triggers depressing folks … however I comply with within the footsteps of Janet [Jackson], of Funkadelic, of Earth Wind and Fireplace … no one’s doing it like me for Us. And I stand on that.”
She went on: “Think about listening to ‘say it loud I’m black and I’m proud’ and saying it’s too optimistic … Think about listening to [OutKast song] ‘Hey Yah’ and saying it’s too poppy… what Andre [Andre 3000] say? Yall don’t wanna hear ya simply wanna hate …
“Aretha [Franklin] and Whitney [Houston] acquired backlash for being ‘too pop’ they usually stored going… and so will I …
“I’m out right here reclaiming rock n roll for US … (sic)”