Lizzo Just Opened Up About Her "Soul-Crushing" Album Sales After People Called Her Initial Response Fake-Unbothered

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Lizzo conscionable opened up astir the disappointing show of her caller album, Bitch.

Bitch was released connected June 5, marking Lizzo's archetypal medium since 2022 and the archetypal since the fallout aft 3 of her erstwhile backup dancers sued her, her accumulation company, and her creation skipper successful 2023, alleging intersexual harassment, spiritual and radical discrimination, and creating a hostile enactment environment. Lizzo has denied the allegations, which you tin work much astir here.

After becoming 1 of the biggest artists successful the satellite erstwhile her 2017 opus "Truth Hurts" exploded successful 2019, her vocation appeared to suffer momentum quickly. Her mixtape, MY FACE HURTS FROM SMILING, arrived successful 2025 to small fanfare, and neither of her 2 pb singles from her latest album, "Don't Make Me Love U" and "BITCH" made an impression, with some failing to ace the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Unfortunately, the medium itself would beryllium to beryllium likewise disappointing, failing to scope the Billboard 200, with Rolling Stone reporting connected Tuesday that it had sold lone 2,600 copies successful its archetypal week.

Shortly aft the income figures were reported, Lizzo posted a TikTok of herself dancing successful her surviving country to the medium way "Sexy Ladies" alongside the caption: "Imagine reasoning I 'crashed out' and I'm astatine location just…"

The video sparked tons of reactions from radical who thought she was trying to look unbothered. One idiosyncratic commented, "Not you trying to person america you are unbothered." Another added, "Now u trying WAYYY to hard."

Someone other asked, "Is this a creation to support from crying," portion different wrote, "naah this ain't it 😭."

As it turns out, the cheerful video didn't bespeak however Lizzo was really feeling.

During an quality connected the Proto Pop podcast, Lizzo was asked for the "non-PR" reply astir however she was doing, and she got incredibly honest.

"I deliberation close now, dropping the album, I took it to bosom truly heavily," she said. "This is the non-PR [answer], I wounded my ain feelings. I was truly stressed and truly bittersweet for a fewer days due to the fact that I conscionable was like, hold a minute. This is immoderate of my champion stuff."

She continued, "I had to travel to presumption with the information that, not lone is the euphony manufacture antithetic successful the past 3 years — and we request to speech astir that. We request to speech astir the vigor facet that I got my ass chewed retired for, but it's happening, and it's true."

On the podcast, however, Lizzo acknowledged that her narration with listeners had changed.

"But also, my narration and my transportation musically with the satellite is different," she said. "And I deliberation I benignant of had to mourn that."

Lizzo besides revealed that she tried to marque up for what she felt was constricted enactment from her statement by promoting the medium herself. Her property tally included countless interviews and adjacent hanging up promotional posters herself.

"I had each of these precocious hopes for what we would bash the archetypal week, and it didn't match," she said. "I was truthful excited due to the fact that I met my pre-saves goal, and I met each of that, and past I dropped, and past I was like, ohio okay, this isn't what I thought it would be."

She added, "I didn't deliberation it would beryllium crazy, but I besides didn't deliberation it would beryllium this. And I deliberation that determination was similar 24 hours of my beingness wherever I based my occurrence and my worthy connected a number, and that was soul-crushing. And I had to punctual myself."

Lizzo said she besides recovered reassurance successful her person SZA.

"Thank deity for Solana," she said. "SZA called me, she was like, 'Hey, you're connected my mind.' And I was like, 'Am I a failure?' She was like, 'Oh my God, no!' She's truthful sweet. And I meditated, and I prayed connected it, and I was like, this is wherefore I don't justice myself, oregon my success, oregon my interaction connected numbers. This is wherefore I don't bash that due to the fact that it's soul-crushing if you do."

You tin ticker a clip of the infinitesimal present and the afloat interrogation erstwhile it releases tomorrow.

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