History Music / Lizzo

Lizzo signed a deal with Creator/AmazonStudios to develop further projects. The first one, an unscripted reality competition show, ''Series/LizzosWatchOutForTheBigGrrrls'', premiered on March 24, 2022, featuring dancers competing for the chance to become part of the Big Grrrls group. The show was nominated in the Best Competition Program category at the 2022 UsefulNotes/{{Emmy Award}}s and won, resulting in Lizzo's first Emmy.

[[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere Describe Lizzo here. Well, according to the results of this DNA test, Lizzo is definitely 100%]] ''[[BadassBoast that bitch.]]''

She was born in Detroit, Michigan, but moved to Houston, Texas as a child. When her father died when she was 21, she devoted herself to making it in the music business, and moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota after living out of her car for a year. There, she was briefly in an all-female group called The Chalice, but she had more success with her alternative hip-hop solo debut, ''Lizzobangers,'' released on Totally Gross National Product in 2013, and re-released through Virgin Records in 2014. The album was produced by Lazerbeak. To promote the album, Lizzo toured the US and UK opening for Har Mar Superstar. She made an appearance on ''Series/TheLateShowWithDavidLetterman'' during this period.

Lizzo got the chance to work with one of her biggest influences when she made an EarlyBirdCameo with her Chalice bandmates and got featured on Music/{{Prince}}'s song "[=BOYTROUBLE=]" (from his album ''[=PLECTRUMELECTRUM=]''). Lizzo called this experience a "fairy tale", and appreciated that Prince let her and her bandmates "do whatever we wanted."

The tail end of 2015 saw her second album get released on her own label, [=BGSW=], entitled ''Big Grrrl Small World.'' This was recorded in Wisconsin at [[Music/BonIver Justin Vernon's]] April Base Studios. It features [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfEhyi8N__Q "My Skin,"]] an early example of one of Lizzo's many {{Self Empowerment Anthem}}s, which Lizzo called "the thesis statement of the album." A review of the album, from Andrea Swensson of The Current, summed up Lizzo's whole vibe by saying that "There's an old feminist adage that says that the personal is political, and Lizzo seems to understand this concept intrinsically."

Then, things took a turn in 2016 when Lizzo signed to Atlantic Records. Her first release for them was the ''Coconut Oil EP,'' which switched her sound up and adopted more of a pop-rap approach with sounds of classic {{Soul}} and R&B. The first single, the Motown-inspired "Good As Hell," slowly gained traction just as her career did, and she toured with a group of dancers she dubbed the Big Grrrls, all plus-sized dancers. In the tenth and fourteenth seasons of ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace,'' she appeared as a guest judge.

In April of 2019, ''Cuz I Love You'', her full-length debut for Atlantic, was released. 2017 single "Truth Hurts" was added to the deluxe edition after it gradually rose in popularity. The album also features booty anthem "Tempo" featuring another of Lizzo's biggest influences, Music/MissyElliott. The album became her mainstream breakthrough, and it pushed her to several nominations at the 2019 [[UsefulNotes/MTVVideoMusicAward MTV Video Music Awards]], including Best New Artist (a fan-voted award where she came in second to Music/BillieEilish), Push Artist of the Year, Best Power Anthem ("Tempo") and Song Of The Summer ("Truth Hurts").

Lizzo signed a deal with Creator/AmazonStudios to develop projects. The first one, an unscripted reality competition show, ''Series/LizzosWatchOutForTheBigGrrrls'', premiered on March 24, 2022, featuring dancers competing for the chance to become part of the Big Grrrls group. The show was nominated in the Best Competition Program category at the 2022 UsefulNotes/{{Emmy Award}}s, resulting in a win and in Lizzo's first Emmy.

* DreamTeam:
** With Music/MissyElliott (a personal hero of Lizzo's) on "Tempo".
** With Music/CardiB on "Rumors".

* CueOClock: The opening lyrics of "About Damn Time": "It's Bitch-O'Clock, yeah, it's Thick-Thirty..."

* CueOClock: The opening lyrics of "About Damn Time": "It's Bitch-O'Clock, yeah, it's Thicc-Thirty..."

->''"I do my hair toss,''\\
''Check my nails,''\\
''Baby, how you feeling?''\\
''(FEELING GOOD AS HELL!)"''
-->-- "Good As Hell", ''Coconut Oil EP'', 2016

Lizzo signed a deal with Creator/AmazonStudios to develop projects. The first one, an unscripted reality competition show, ''Series/LizzosWatchOutForTheBigGrrrls'', premiered on March 24, 2022, featuring dancers competing for the chance to become part of the Big Grrrls group.

** Similarly, "Grrrls" originally featured the lyric "Do you see this shit? Imma spaz". This lyric was widely criticized for its casual usage of the word "spaz", which is [[SeparatedByACommonLanguage considered an ableist slur in the UK despite being a fairly innocuous slang term in the US]]. The song was later re-released with the original lyric changed to "Do you see this shit? Hold me back".