After almost a year of not dropping any new music, Lizzo becomes “the bad bitch” she was meant to be with the release of “Rumors”, a “bite back” project that shows that “rumors don’t mean nothing to us.”
The 33-year old, three-time Grammy winner and platinum-selling artist said she made sure she “put together the perfect album” as this was her first released since her sensational 2013 debut, Lizzobangers.
“I have so many songs that I want the world to hear,” she admitted “But I wanted to make sure that I put out the perfect album. It’s been way too long since I dropped any music so I don’t want to drop the wrong thing,”
Lizzo also shared that she and her team have written over “130 plus songs” for the project, but they have carefully filtered out the catalog to make sure only the “best” go in the record.
“We’re being very careful in choosing the best songs,” she assures.
She also revealed that “Rumors” is actually a collaboration with label mate Cardi B, with whom she waited for a long time to collaborate with.
“I’ve been a fan of Cardi B and her social media presence for years. We met a few times at little parties and there was always so much love and I said “one of these days we gonna collab” and she’s like ‘yeah we gonna collab.’ And when we wrote ‘Rumors’, it was the obvious choice,” she recalled.
Always striving to be a positive influence, Lizzo states that her ultimate goal with her music is to “touch and help people.”
“I’ve been using music as therapy since I was twenty years old as a writer. My only hope and goal are that someone can hear something that I wrote and feel better. I like to make feel-good music and also my dream has been to write a song that the whole world could sing together,”
Having Cuz I Love You, her major-label debut reach over 5 billion streams worldwide and her single “Truth Hurts” being the longest-running number-one hit by a female rap artist, it’s safe to say Lizzo’s already achieved that. However, that will not stop her from continuing to spread positivity and confidence to the world. Now armed with so much more confidence, “Rumors” marks Lizzo’s transition from “wanting to be a bad bitch” to “being the bad bitch.”
“I think the biggest difference is confidence. I think I am so much more confident in this project. I think in ‘Cuz I Love You’ I was seeking confidence, I was striving to be more confident, and you could hear it a lot in the music where it’s like I’m writing about the bad bitch that I wanna be. But now I am that bad bitch and I am living as her,” she said.
Released by Atlantic Records, “Rumors” is available for streaming on all major streaming platforms.