Lizzo has claimed “industry changes” are part of the reason she has a smaller fanbase.
On Sunday, a follower posted a message via X in which they questioned why the Juice hitmaker seemingly doesn’t have as big a platform as she did in the past.<\/p>\n
“Lizzo not having a fanbase is so weird to me when this woman was literally selling out arenas not even 2 years ago. like, where did those people go?” they queried.<\/p>\n
And a short time later, Lizzo surprised fans by publicly responding.<\/p>\n
“I actually can answer this: the industry changed so much in the last 3 yrs. streaming replaced radio & I was a radio darling (sic),” she replied. “That’s how my fans discovered my music.”<\/p>\n
Lizzo also went on to reference a lawsuit filed against her in August 2023, in which three former backup dancers accused her of sexual, religious, and racial harassment, assault, weight-shaming, and false imprisonment, among other claims.<\/p>\n
Some of the claims, including the one that Lizzo allegedly fat-shamed one of the dancers, were dismissed by a Los Angeles judge in February 2024, though some of the allegations were upheld.<\/p>\n
“Not to mention the very obvious & public attack on my career changed things. But I’m out here doing my absolute best and u can’t knock a b**ch for that,” the 38-year-old added.<\/p>\n
Lizzo, real name Melissa Jefferson, dropped her fifth studio album, B**ch, earlier this month.<\/p>\n
In a statement at the time of the release, the Cuz I Love You singer explained how she wanted to reclaim the meaning of the word “b**ch”.<\/p>\n
“Reclaiming the word B**ch is power – it’s taking a label once used to diminish women and turning it into a declaration of confidence, and unapologetic self-love,” she shared. “So many incredible women in music have used the word for positivity, like Meredith Brooks and Missy Elliott. It was only fitting to name my album B**ch because it has become my favourite word when using it on my own terms and because I am 100 per cent that b**ch!”<\/p>\n
Lizzo’s last concert tour was The Special Tour in 2022-2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lizzo has claimed “industry changes” are part of the reason she has a smaller fanbase.On Sunday, a follower…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":852489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[29],"tags":[171,348173,426,975,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-852488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-industry-changes","tag-lizzo","tag-music","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116713598764997805","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}