Lizzo Says It's 'Hurtful' When Critics Say Her Music Is for White People: 'I Am a Black Woman'

[FluffyEyes]

She's a minstrel show what does she expect

Well she's in good company then. At least 90% of Black artists are embodying stereotypes right now. shyt, current Rap music banks on it.

 

[CarltonJunior]

Every time I've heard a lizzo song in a girl car it sounds straight out of Grease

It's caccery for sure

 

[Crayola Coyote]

Tired of this badly built chick always complaining about something man hit the gym

 

[zerorequiem]

Looks like most hip hop shows if we keeping it a buck. We got rappers letting their cac audience say nikka but we getting mad at Lizzo for not wanting to associate her music with cacs. Make it make sense.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Well she's in good company then. At least 90% of Black artists are embodying stereotypes right now. shyt, current Rap music banks on it.

 

[Uachet]

She is no different than the rest of the minstrel show artists roaming around these days. The only difference between her and some of the others is that her music is just not liked by some of you. All in all though she is just on one end of a stereotypical spectrum of the mammy while some of the artists held up here on this forum are on the other end of the thug. Neither are good for our self-image and wellbeing as a people.

 

[Roland Coltrane]

Women of non american cultures shame each other when they gain weight

for real?

seriously?

where have you seen this?

 

[Roland Coltrane]

I never knew so many brehs in here were Lizzo fans

pRoTecT bLacK WoMen

it's been stated before the all these nikkas with these bytch ass responses would be singing a farrrrr different tune if it was a Black man who said this shyt


who emasculated you nikkas so much

 

[NobodyReally]

I never knew so many brehs in here were Lizzo fans

pRoTecT bLacK WoMen

it's been stated before the all these nikkas with these bytch ass responses would be singing a farrrrr different tune if it was a Black man who said this shyt


who emasculated you nikkas so much

Save it. Y'all never had this smoke for Biggie, Big Pun, Heavy D or Fat Joe even though they celebrated their weight and sexual prowess. What exactly has Lizzo done other than be overweight? You're trying to hard to dislike her based on something superficial.

By the way, this is the #1 song on pop radio right now, and no one is slamming this guy for being flabby and flaunting it. Double standards for Black women though.

 

[Roland Coltrane]

Save it. Y'all never had this smoke for Biggie, Big Pun, Heavy D or Fat Joe even though they celebrated their weight and sexual prowess. What exactly has Lizzo done other than be overweight? You're trying to hard to dislike her based on something superficial.

By the way, this is the #1 song on pop radio right now, and no one is slamming this guy for being flabby and flaunting it. Double standards for Black women though.

whatever you say buddy

 

[Roland Coltrane]

Denzel - Training day

act like Black people don't like pretty much Denzel's entire filmography brehs

he's literally the gold standard for Black actors and Black excellence

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

for real?

seriously?

where have you seen this?

Every other country I've been to or people from other countries I've talked to have said that

There is pressure to remain skinny particularly in europe

They still hold to the model ideal of being slender and fit because 1 its healthier and 2 their men dont want fat women. They want to get married and know they will have a tougher time if they are fat

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Uh that's cool but Darius Rucker, a Black man, makes music for CACs just like her

Everyone should listen to Darius talk about the music he makes and his experiences in the industry and touring America.

He's more "real" than most people who dont get their racial identity questioned.

He did a podcast on Questlove show and it was really insightful. I would have used his name like you did before and I don't listen to his music but I have a respect for him.

 

[Playaz Eyez]

It is what it is

 

[OfTheCross]

Lizzo Says It's 'Hurtful' When Critics Say Her Music Is for White People: 'I Am a Black Woman'​

"I feel like it really challenges my identity and who I am, and diminishes that," Lizzo said of critics who say she makes music for White people​

By
Nicholas Rice

Published on December 15, 2022 02:41 PM

Lizzo knows who she is — and she's clapping back at her critics!

While appearing on The Howard Stern Show earlier this week, the musician, 34, opened up to host Howard Stern about how it is "really hurtful" when critics will say that her music is made for White people.

"[It's] very hurtful, only because I am a Black woman, and I feel like it really challenges my identity and who I am, and diminishes that — which I think is really hurtful," Lizzo said, after Stern, 68, mentioned that the star talks about the critiques in her HBO Max documentary Love, Lizzo.

"And then, on the other end, it's like, I'm making funky, soulful, feel-good music that is so similar to a lot of Black music, that was made for Black people in the '70s and '80s," she continued. "And on top of that, my message is literally for everybody, in any body. I don't try to gatekeep my message from people."

Added Lizzo: "I feel like a lot of people, truthfully, don't get me, which is why I wanted to do this documentary. Because I was like, 'I feel like y'all don't understand me, y'all don't know where I came from,' and now I don't want to answer no more questions about this s---. I want to show the world who I am."

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The "About Damn Time" singer echoed similar sentiments while chatting with Entertainment Weekly last month, where she told the outlet that the genre of pop music is "racist inherently."

"I think if people did any research they would see that there was race music and then there was pop music," she explained. "And race music was their way of segregating Black artists from being mainstream, because they didn't want their kids listening to music created by Black and Brown people because they said it was demonic and yada, yada, yada."

"So then there were these genres created almost like code words: R&B, and then of course eventually hip-hop and rap was born from that," Lizzo continued. "I think when you think about pop, you think about MTV in the '80s talking about 'We can't play rap music' or 'We can't put this person on our platform because we're thinking about what people in the middle of America think' — and we all know what that's code for."

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Lizzo then said that there currently is a "well-oiled pop machine, but remember that it has a racist origin."

"I think the coolest thing I've seen is rap and hip-hop artists become pop. Now pop music is really rap in its DNA — rap is running the game, and I think that's so cool," she added. "But we forget that in the late '80s and the early '90s, there were these massive pop diva records that were sang by Black women like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey. And I'm giving that same energy. I'm giving that same energy with a little bit of rap, and I think that people just have to get used to me. I think anything that's new, people are going to criticize and feel like it's not for them."

Lizzo Says It's 'Hurtful' When Critics Say Her Music Is for White People: 'I Am a Black Woman'

Lizzo appeared on The Howard Stern Show earlier this week, where she opened up about critics who say she makes music for White people and how those views are 'really hurtful'

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