Press launch –
GRAMMY® & Emmy Award-winning celebrity singer, songwriter, rapper, instrumentalist, and actress Lizzo has launched her new album, Bitch.
Lizzo, who first coined the phrase ‘I’m 100% that bitch’ on her Diamond-selling single “Fact Hurts” will proceed to form popular culture along with her newly launched album.
On the inspiration for the album title Lizzo shares, “Reclaiming the phrase Bitch is energy – it’s taking a label as soon as used to decrease ladies and turning it right into a declaration of confidence, and unapologetic self-love. So many unbelievable ladies in music have used the phrase for positivity like Meredith Brooks and Missy Elliot. It was solely becoming to call my album Bitch as a result of it has change into my favourite phrase when utilizing it alone phrases and since I’m 100% that bitch!”
Among the many album’s standout tracks is “Horny Women,” a reimagined model of “Horny Woman,” the 2005 hit from D.C. go-go band UCB (Uncalled 4 Band). The observe honors the UCB traditional and celebrates the go-go style as they commemorate 50 years of Washington, D.C.’s official music.
Again in March, Lizzo launched “Don’t Make Me Love U”, a standout observe from the brand new album. The music was met with immense reward from critics and followers alike, kicking off Lizzo’s new musical period with a hanging video depicting Lizzo grappling along with her past-self, reflecting and ultimately evolving by means of studying and development.
Earlier this yr Lizzo carried out a completely sold-out run of exhibits at Blue Be aware Jazz Membership’s Los Angeles & New York areas, totalling a run of 12 performances. Selection heralded that “these exhibits reminded the viewers, up shut and private, what a serious expertise Lizzo is: a top-class singer, a fascinating and entertaining performer, and to a level we haven’t actually seen earlier than, a skilled, severe musician.” She most not too long ago headlined an electrifying efficiency to a sold-out Houston Rodeo with over 70,000 followers earlier this spring. Most not too long ago, she carried out on the Sports activities Illustrated Swimsuit Runway Present– streaming on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ on June ninth– in Miami, the place she sang “Horny Women.”
Other than music, Lizzo not too long ago introduced the upcoming launch of her first ever kids’s guide Lil Lizzo Meets Sasha B. Flootin’, coming to bookshelves throughout on September eighth, 2026. Printed by Simon & Schuster Books for Younger Readers, the story tells the story of a bubbly little lady who simply needs to belong assembly a wise and brassy flute who can’t discover her tune, winding up on a wild journey to locations crammed with unbelievable sounds. Lizzo can be starring as Rock N Roll pioneer & gospel singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe within the upcoming movie “Rosetta” from Amazon MGM Studios. She additionally appeared on The Roast of Kevin Hart, additional highlighting her versatility throughout leisure, comedy and television.
About Lizzo:
Lizzo is a four-time GRAMMY® Award–profitable, Emmy Award–profitable celebrity singer, songwriter, rapper, and actress, who has left an indelible and incomparable mark on fashionable tradition. She has garnered quite a few accolades, notched two Sizzling 100 #1 smashes, earned dozens of gold, platinum, and multi-platinum certifications, packed arenas worldwide, and shined in blockbuster movies. Lizzo notably made historical past in 2023 when she emerged as “the primary black lady to obtain Document of the 12 months on the GRAMMY® Awards since 1994” for the 2x-platinum “About Rattling Time.” Prior, she shook the charts with the Diamond document “Fact Hurts.” It enshrined her as each “the third feminine rapper to high the Sizzling 100 and not using a featured artist” and “the primary black solo feminine R&B singer to say the highest spot since 2012.” It dominated the Sizzling 100 for seven weeks, changing into “the longest working #1 by a solo feminine rap artist ever.”
Rolling Stone hailed it as one of many 500 Biggest Songs of All Time. She has appeared on a myriad of tv exhibits, together with Saturday Night time Stay, TODAY, Watch What Occurs Stay with Andy Cohen, Jimmy Kimmel Stay!, CBS Sunday Morning, and extra. She additionally headlined her personal Emmy nominated HBO particular Lizzo: Stay In Live performance, capturing her sold-out present at Kia Discussion board in Los Angeles. Alongside the best way, her presence could possibly be felt on the field workplace and on streaming networks, spanning roles in The Simpsons and Hustlers along with producing and starring within the #1 multi-Emmy Award–Profitable, Prime actuality TV present: Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Massive Grrrls. She based her personal activewear model, Yitty, designed for each kind of physique. In 2026, she kicked off the yr with the announcement of her first ever kids’s guide, Lil Lizzo Meets Sasha B. Flootin,’ hitting bookshelves this September & will probably be starring within the newly introduced movie “Rosetta” from Amazon MGM Studios.
