new song w/sadie from speedy ortiz
https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=B4jeax6qvosh6ijw7strqomi24q
http://pitchfork.com/news/63043-speedy-ortizs-sadie-dupuis-sad13-and-lizzo-team-up-for-basement-queens/
― maura, Thursday, 21 January 2016 00:41 (eight years ago) link
Loved seeing her on Colbert, think she's well poised to blow up a bit nwo
― from the perspective of a gay man, i will post them now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 January 2016 03:52 (eight years ago) link
this song is like fun and goofy but sounds like a bonus track and not a single
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-t4EYomPVk
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 17 September 2016 02:10 (seven years ago) link
why is she not super famous yet tho?
ok this EP is great great great. "Scuse Me" reminds me of another song (maybe even samples it?) but I cannot for the life of me place it
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 7 October 2016 22:17 (seven years ago) link
yeah this is great on contact; really into her and tkay maidza right now as next gen potential stars
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Monday, 10 October 2016 13:34 (seven years ago) link
She been working, working on this earworm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yzsh-PDF30
earworm by Lizzo = classic obv
Also touring with HAIM at the moment, and new album is scheduled for later this year.
― sbahnhof, Monday, 9 April 2018 06:32 (six years ago) link
Yo nice
― valorous wokelord (silby), Monday, 9 April 2018 14:28 (six years ago) link
ya-ya-ee!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8ZI1Jlrf-w
album's out in april. can't wait
― monotony, Saturday, 2 February 2019 12:26 (five years ago) link
Delightful profile in the Cut: https://www.thecut.com/2019/02/lizzo-flute-pop-star.html
― monotony, Monday, 4 February 2019 08:54 (five years ago) link
They're ALL delightful profiles. Even the NME one.
"We forget that we have needs because we’re so artsy-fartsy and higher-conscious. But it’s like, no bitch, you need water and you need sunlight and you need rest – just like this fucking cactus.” Lizzo gestures to a cactus on the table between us. “This cactus might not be making a fucking hit song, but this cactus is chill and doesn’t have fucking anxiety. He’s not stressing himself out over no bitch-ass fuck-boys, you know what I mean?”
― sbahnhof, Sunday, 10 February 2019 08:45 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqjPqsry7no
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 14 February 2019 15:10 (five years ago) link
see this one feels like a self-conscious retro pastiche in the way I thought "Juice" managed to sidestep, huge as it sounds
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Thursday, 14 February 2019 15:18 (five years ago) link
Tempo!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raVe1hZxFAc
― monotony, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 23:01 (five years ago) link
rrrrrrrrrrrr
― moose; squirrel (silby), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 23:09 (five years ago) link
so glad she is finally, finally blowing up but also annoyed that in the span of 18 months she went from underselling a 450 person venue to selling out a 1000+ person venue in less than 10 seconds (i.e. before I could get a ticket)
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 21 March 2019 13:51 (five years ago) link
Kept reading people trying to push Tierra Whack as the “new” Missy but Lizzo makes way more sense as the substitute, she’s bombastic and fun in the same sort of way Missy was.
This collab makes me very happy.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 21 March 2019 16:30 (five years ago) link
I'm sure she wants to be more than the new Missy, but this is my fave Lizzo since Batches & Cookies
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 21 March 2019 16:41 (five years ago) link
"juice" is amazing and if it was a bruno mars song -- which it basically is -- it would be no. 1 for 5 weeks
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 21 March 2019 18:18 (five years ago) link
the album is so much fun - brash, loud and raucous
― monotony, Sunday, 21 April 2019 13:56 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I'm enjoying this album a lot. Everything here suits her brilliant personality so much.
My only complaint is I would have liked Boys to have been included, but it's no big deal really.
― kitchen person, Sunday, 21 April 2019 14:05 (five years ago) link
I've decided I really need to "deej it up" about my thought leading wrt Lizzo
rolling off a molly thread 2013
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 22 April 2019 13:16 (five years ago) link
There's a lot of Prince in this record, yeah (like on Crybaby and Jerome esp)?
Pfork review today is terrible btw.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 22 April 2019 14:26 (five years ago) link
I thought it was fine - threaded a tricky needle.
― Simon H., Monday, 22 April 2019 14:29 (five years ago) link
but clearly some do not agree
PEOPLE WHO ‘REVIEW’ ALBUMS AND DONT MAKE MUSIC THEMSELVES SHOULD BE UNEMPLOYED— |L I Z Z O| (@lizzo) April 22, 2019
― Simon H., Monday, 22 April 2019 14:40 (five years ago) link
― change display name (Jordan)
Crybaby is one of my favourites. The guitar playing reminds me so much of St. Vincent, maybe something from Strange Mercy? Jerome sounds a lot like Rihanna's Love On The Brain.
― kitchen person, Monday, 22 April 2019 14:43 (five years ago) link
― Simon H., Monday, April 22, 2019 7:29 AM (twenty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the tricky needle of comparing lizzo to natasha bedingfield and music for yogurt commercials
review baffling and bad even as it expresses some of my own reservations about the record, lizzo’s reaction understandable but also terrible
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 22 April 2019 14:56 (five years ago) link
I was referring to separately assessing a work's social value against its artistic value and acknowledging they're somewhat misaligned at times, which requires some precision of language.
― Simon H., Monday, 22 April 2019 14:58 (five years ago) link
it's kinda funny that the pfork review veers into this weird sorta cop out in the end like "don't hate us for saying this album is bland pop music" and lizzo still jumped down their throats
― J0rdan S., Monday, 22 April 2019 14:59 (five years ago) link
The album shows more enthusiasm than skill, but the pop world needs at least sixteen Lizzos, so I won't complain much.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 April 2019 14:59 (five years ago) link
meghan trainor comparisons are a bridge too far
― maura, Monday, 22 April 2019 15:00 (five years ago) link
Better in Color is the bi anthem for 2019 imho
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Monday, 22 April 2019 15:01 (five years ago) link
PEOPLE WHO ‘REVIEW’ ALBUMS AND DONT MAKE MUSIC THEMSELVES SHOULD BE UNEMPLOYED
they usually are these days, aren't they?
Anyway Lizzo is from H-Town so she can do no wrong
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Monday, 22 April 2019 15:05 (five years ago) link
requires some precision of language.
― Simon H., Monday, April 22, 2019 7:58 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i don’t think it even did this well cf. giving over an entire paragraph to a stacey abrams quote with zero transitional setup, just preceded by a lot of cheap shots
admittedly splitting hairs about precision of language is my thing, there’s got to be a better what than being both mean and wrong on the internet
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 22 April 2019 15:08 (five years ago) link
better way*
As far as Lizzo making a big pop album goes, this is a really damn good one. The songs are good, the production is minimal and surprising at times, in all the good ways (where what I heard of the previous record felt overstuffed and too bland for her). Idk, the review feels dismissive of the basic premise of the record and doesn't really get across how well-executed it is.
(obv rolling my eyes at Lizzo's response tweet)
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 22 April 2019 15:11 (five years ago) link
I guess the review just didn't strike me as mean in either tone or sentiment but I may not have picked up on some cues xp
― Simon H., Monday, 22 April 2019 15:13 (five years ago) link
you aren't the last person to push back on me about that, maybe i just read too many things in an extremely online voice
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 22 April 2019 15:20 (five years ago) link
imo people are reading meanness into it from the comparisons being made but I don't *think* that's the intent. it's entirely possible I'm being too charitable
― Simon H., Monday, 22 April 2019 15:33 (five years ago) link
I just think it's kind of petty to push back on one review given she's pretty much gotten a worldwide rimjob from the media from the moment she popped up
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 22 April 2019 16:37 (five years ago) link
def petty and a terrible look
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 22 April 2019 16:46 (five years ago) link
yeah but so
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Monday, 22 April 2019 17:27 (five years ago) link
None of this is important. She'll be old news in 5 seconds.
― Cousin Slappy, Monday, 22 April 2019 17:35 (five years ago) link
fp'd
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Monday, 22 April 2019 17:48 (five years ago) link
i think she has the potential to be pretty huge actually
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 22 April 2019 18:53 (five years ago) link
THIS IS AN INVITATION TO ALL MUSIC JOURNALISTS TO KICK IT IN THE STUDIO WITH ME FOR MY NEXT ALBUM! I’d like to understand your world as much as you can understand mine https://t.co/niZhmrEvIl— |L I Z Z O| (@lizzo) April 22, 2019
― blokes you can't rust (sic), Monday, 22 April 2019 19:09 (five years ago) link
that's... not gonna work
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 22 April 2019 19:10 (five years ago) link
ft. brandon stosuy
― imago, Monday, 22 April 2019 19:12 (five years ago) link
can well imagine fantano expanding his empire to guest features actually
― imago, Monday, 22 April 2019 19:13 (five years ago) link
"PEOPLE WHO ‘REVIEW’ ALBUMS AND DONT MAKE MUSIC THEMSELVES SHOULD BE UNEMPLOYED"
A world where they only people who are "qualified" to consume music are players already exists
https://pcdn.columbian.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/618995-bitz-battle-lawyer-b-1024x767.jpg
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 22 April 2019 19:17 (five years ago) link
Lizzo: 100% That Defendant
(if I were a headline writer)
― Nonhuman biologics enthusiast (morrisp), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 19:49 (nine months ago) link
truth hurts was a great single
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 19:53 (nine months ago) link
dont think bruno plays the flute
― mark s, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 19:54 (nine months ago) link
But he is a great drummer!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 20:01 (nine months ago) link
oof
Lizzo releases a statement on the sexual harassment and hostile workplace allegations: pic.twitter.com/dho9sMfhnm— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) August 3, 2023
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 3 August 2023 13:01 (nine months ago) link
Some interesting wording choices in there.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 3 August 2023 14:05 (nine months ago) link
It’s a better statement than “God is good, y’all” and that’s about all the leeway I’m willing to grant to all of these empty platitudes
― the new drip king (DJP), Thursday, 3 August 2023 15:07 (nine months ago) link
I am very open with my sexuality and expressing myself but I cannot accept or allow people to use that openness to make me out to be something I am not.
huh
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 3 August 2023 15:51 (nine months ago) link
The part that also stood out to me was the "with passion comes hard work and high standards", but maybe I'm sensitive to it because men have been using that bullshit as a a free pass to be complete assholes in the working environment for decades.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 3 August 2023 15:55 (nine months ago) link
Yeah that's a long-standing bullshit copout to be an abusive asshole. It IS true that as a performer, these high standards can lead to tense moments - people getting called out for not doing what they're supposed to, being frustrated after a long day. All that is fine and usually doesn't lead to blowups like these.
but you don't get to outright dehumanize people in the name of art, either. that shit's the main reason I hated Klobs as a Presidential candidate, she used that same bullshit excuse.
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Thursday, 3 August 2023 15:59 (nine months ago) link
that shit's the main reason I hated Klobs as a Presidential candidate, she used that same bullshit excuse.
Maybe it's a Minnesota thing?
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 3 August 2023 16:00 (nine months ago) link
I am very open with my sexuality and expressing myself (i may ask you to eat a banana out of a stripper's vagina) but I cannot accept or allow people to use that openness to make me out to be something I am not (a bad person)
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 3 August 2023 16:00 (nine months ago) link
surprised she didn't say not eating a banana out of a stripper's vagina was a 'boundary' for her
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Thursday, 3 August 2023 16:04 (nine months ago) link
lol j0rdan
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, August 3, 2023 12:00 PM bookmarkflaglink
"Minnesota not-nice"?
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Thursday, 3 August 2023 16:05 (nine months ago) link
The statement is fascinating b/c she says a lot without actually saying the allegations are untrue (except I guess the part where she says she "would absolutely never criticize or terminate an employee because of their weight")
― Nonhuman biologics enthusiast (morrisp), Thursday, 3 August 2023 16:12 (nine months ago) link
"I am very open with my sexuality and expressing myself but I cannot accept or allow people to use that openness to make me out to be something I am not." Imagine if, like, Louis CK said this. (He probably did.)
Tbf she didn't fire them for being overweight, she allegedly told them to *lose* some weight. Totally different, right?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 August 2023 16:15 (nine months ago) link
That's one of the worst rebuttal statements I've ever read, not that any of them are good
― omar little, Thursday, 3 August 2023 16:16 (nine months ago) link
xo FWIW (and not withstanding anything he may have said or done later), I think Louis' apology statement at the time was a pretty good model for one.
― Nonhuman biologics enthusiast (morrisp), Thursday, 3 August 2023 16:20 (nine months ago) link
"I've behaved like a vile piece of shit because I'm a fuck-up, I will now crawl into a hole and remove myself from the vicinity of the human race for a good long while" is the only rebuttal I ever want to hear from these people. Never seems to happen, funnily enough.
― Scene report: Rochester MN (Matt #2), Thursday, 3 August 2023 16:29 (nine months ago) link
Iirc Louis undercut his apology by coming back and making light of his situation, plus, you know, the dead kids in Parkland. Edgy!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 August 2023 16:44 (nine months ago) link
Yes, that's why I said "notwithstanding..." The guy unfortunately sucks, and maybe he didn't even write the statement himself, but it sure hit better notes than Lizzo's
― Nonhuman biologics enthusiast (morrisp), Thursday, 3 August 2023 16:48 (nine months ago) link
hoo boy
Lizzo is being represented by Hollywood lawyer Marty Singer for her harassment and toxic workplace lawsuit. Singer’s clientele ranges from a variety of stars, including Bill Cosby, Johnny Depp, Charlie Sheen, Chris Brown, Brett Ratner, and currently, Jonah Hill. pic.twitter.com/BGhkbIBLvd— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) August 3, 2023
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 3 August 2023 17:11 (nine months ago) link
there is nothing i take more seriously than the respect i deserve as the most important person in any room i walk into
― omar little, Thursday, 3 August 2023 17:18 (nine months ago) link
that looks like a new fighting game character select screen
― Bongo Jongus, Thursday, 3 August 2023 17:19 (nine months ago) link
xpost - that is, uh, not a list of names i'd want to be publicly associated with here in the year of our lord 2023
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 3 August 2023 17:33 (nine months ago) link
he's been the lawyer for way more celebrities than just those of this particular ilk - but yeah, nagl
― c u (crüt), Thursday, 3 August 2023 17:38 (nine months ago) link
not defending Lizzo but if you cherrypick the clients of any fucking defence lawyer on earth, it's "nagl"
― Murgatroid, Thursday, 3 August 2023 17:47 (nine months ago) link
no one here made that list, calm down. of course it's cherry picked to make it look worse. still, the statement stands that, were i a celebrity, i would definitely not want to be publicly linked with those names in 2023.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 3 August 2023 17:52 (nine months ago) link
do we need another nagl thread
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Thursday, 3 August 2023 18:10 (nine months ago) link
point being that hiring a defence lawyer, any defence lawyer, will come with these kind of associations, there's no way around it
― Murgatroid, Thursday, 3 August 2023 18:10 (nine months ago) link
p sure the average defense lawyer doesn't provide concierge legal services to celebs
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Thursday, 3 August 2023 18:17 (nine months ago) link
obviously tons of celebrities use lawyers like this and tons of celebrities do stuff like this, and certainly this lawyer is probably very goodthe problem for Lizzo it's hard say oh well she's just doing what celebrities do when a huge part of her whole thing (I'd say equal to the music) is that she wasn't a typical celebrity, she was better, kinder, empowering, etc. that's a big part of how she presented herself and her appeal.it's not like pre-Amber Heard, people were like you know who's the best, not at all sketchy dude in the world? Johnny Depp
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 3 August 2023 18:20 (nine months ago) link
i kinda sometimes find the "positive energy" qualities that are praised in a lot of celebrities to be at best neutral traits. sometimes there are displays of suffocating positivity that are a result of this weird symbiotic relationship fans have with celebs who love basking in adoration, and who feed off it. and anything that pierces the illusion or might make them feel disempowered from their status as the lord or lady of good vibes is going to cause them to reveal themselves.
― omar little, Thursday, 3 August 2023 18:32 (nine months ago) link
It's really easy to not hire Bill Cosby's lawyer. just sayin.
― Steely Duran (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 3 August 2023 18:33 (nine months ago) link
OTM
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 3 August 2023 18:34 (nine months ago) link
marty singer has prob defended 75% of hollywood at this point
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 3 August 2023 18:56 (nine months ago) link
ultimately some tweets about how your lawyer defended cosby & johnny depp are a small tax to pay for an amazing lawyer
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 3 August 2023 18:57 (nine months ago) link
It's really easy to not hire Bill Cosby's lawyer. just sayin.― Steely Duran (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, August 3, 2023 2:33 PM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Steely Duran (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, August 3, 2023 2:33 PM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i don't see how, if you're a celebrity being accused of sexual abuse, it's really easy not to hire the lawyer who got the most flagrant and heinous celebrity sexual abuser out of jail. seems like the obvious move
― flopson, Thursday, 3 August 2023 19:04 (nine months ago) link
If you’re trying to stay out of jail, sure. If you’re trying to beat a civil suit and continue on with your lucrative career, scorched earth might not be the best option.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 3 August 2023 19:13 (nine months ago) link
cosby's PR obviously beyond habilitation but in the depp case it seemed like the legal defence was successful at turning the media narrative in his favour too
― flopson, Thursday, 3 August 2023 19:19 (nine months ago) link
to be fair, Lizzo and Depp's "brands" (I hate using this term but w/e) are a teeny bit different, also the latter has decades more of artistic goodwill/experience
― Murgatroid, Thursday, 3 August 2023 19:25 (nine months ago) link
singer isn't a trial lawyer he had nothing to do w/ the cosby trial and from what i can tell his involvement in the heard/depp trial was tangential, largely related to stuff he had done in the past representing depp (and heard when they were together) during various legal issues. he's attractive to celebrities bcuz he offers two services in one -- representation in civil litigation and being the kinda PR crisis manager who calls journalists up and threatens to sue them if they print a story in a certain way. he seems to be a very good litigator ... i'm more dubious that the crisis managing stuff is very effective tho i'm sure he's gotten stuff removed from stories on more than his fair share of occasions. perhaps his tactics will backfire on lizzo but i tend to think being associated w/ him won't effect her public image beyond the next 48 hours once the world moves onto another story, and if he gets the dancer suit dismissed or settled for little money it will prob be worth it for her
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 3 August 2023 19:58 (nine months ago) link
it is funny to think of her management team imploring her like "hire marty singer he's the best he's represented everyone in hollywood at some point" & then her waking up to a bunch of tweets being like "lizzo hires bill cosby and johnny depp's attorney"
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 3 August 2023 20:01 (nine months ago) link
lol
― flopson, Friday, 4 August 2023 00:48 (nine months ago) link
Murgatroid at 2:25 3 Aug 23to be fair, Lizzo and Depp's "brands" (I hate using this term but w/e) are a teeny bit different, also the latter has decades more of artistic goodwill/experienceyes that's what I was saying
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 4 August 2023 01:54 (nine months ago) link
The Made in America festival in Philly was cancelled. Lizzo was the headliner.
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 13:57 (eight months ago) link