<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lizzo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lizzo</a> said she’s considering quitting the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/music" target="_blank" rel="noopener">music</a> business because of negative comments about her body.
The 35-year-old musician shared a screenshot of a critical message she received and included a caption that said, “I JUST logged on and the app and this is the type of sh** I see about me on a daily basis.”
“It’s really starting to make me hate the world,” Lizzo continued, according to <a href="https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/lizzo-slams-body-shamers-make-me-hate-the-world-1235343163/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Billboard</a>. “Then someone in the comments said I eat ‘lots of fast food.’ I LITERALLY STOPPED EATING FAST FOOD YEARS AGO… I’m tired of explaining myself all the time and I just wanna get on this app w/out seeing my name in some bullsh**.”
Lizzo also set her tweets to protected so they can only be viewed by followers.
“The Love definitely do not outweigh the Hate on social media… all because I’m fat????” she wrote in a follow-up, followed by a message that said, “Y’all don’t know how close I be to giving up on everyone and quitting and enjoying my money and my man on a F***ING FARM…”
“I literally NEVER search my name this stuff just comes up on my TL &amp; my FYP it’s wild,” Lizzo tweeted. “I swear I just wanna look at dance videos and science news and this sh** comes in every day…”
Her tirade against naysayers went on.
“I’m not trying to BE fat I’m not trying to BE smaller I’m literally just trying to live and be healthy,” she wrote. “This is what my body looks like even when I’m eating super clean and working out!”
“Yall speak on sh** y’all know NOTHING ABOUT and I’m starting to get heated,” she said, per Billboard.
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Lizzo often addresses her weight and professes to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/body-positivity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">love her body</a> just the way it is. 
“As I got more professional in my career, I started to take the physical part more seriously,” she said in a video posted on May 15. “I’ve always loved moving my body, I’ve always loved working out.”
“I think a lot of people see a fat person that way and immediately just assume everything they are doing is trying to be thin,” she went on. “I’m not trying to be thin, I don’t ever want to be thin.”

Lizzo

Lizzo Says She’s Close To ‘Quitting’ Music Over Comments About Her Body

Lizzo Says She's Close To 'Quitting' Music Over Comments About Her Body

Body positivity

Celebrities

Fat Acceptance

Social Media

U.S.

Grammy-winning singer Lizzo protested a new Tennessee law intended to protect children from sexually explicit “adult cabaret” performances, otherwise known as drag shows, by featuring a group of drag queens on stage at her all-ages Knoxville concert on Friday.
During her performance at the Knoxville at Thompson-Boling Arena, which kicked off the second leg of The Special 2our last weekend, Lizzo featured several performers who were alumni of Ru Paul’s Drag Race, including Aquaria, Vanessa Vanjie, Asia O’Hara, Kandy Muse.
“In light of recent and tragic events and current events, I was told by people on the internet, ‘Cancel your shows in Tennessee,’ ‘Don’t go to Tennessee,’” Lizzo <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CrU0CndvWV1/">said</a> during her performance, which kicked off her second leg of The Special 2our tour on Friday in Knoxville at Thompson-Boling Arena. “Their reason was valid, but why would I not come to the people who need to hear this message the most?”
Lizzo’s beef with the law comes after the Tennessee General Assembly voted this year to protect children from sexually explicit performances, which bans adults from impersonating the opposite sex in public or near where children could see it while appealing to prurient interests — that is, engaging in a sexually suggestive performance.
“Why would I not create a safe space in Tennessee where we can celebrate drag entertainers and celebrate our differences?” Lizzo <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CrWHQziuqMc/">said</a>.
“What people in Tennessee are doing is giving hope, so thank you so much for standing up for your rights, protecting each other, and holding the people accountable who should be protecting us.”
In the last year, footage has emerged from around the country, including in Texas, that has appeared to show children present at sexually explicit drag shows, prompting some lawmakers to introduce legislation.
Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson (R-Franklin) told The Daily Wire that he would introduce a law to protect children from “sexually explicit” performances last year. 
“I think we would all agree that some of the video we have seen recently of some of these drag shows that were quote-unquote family-friendly were anything but that,” Johnson said. “And if I had attended one of those with my kids, I would have been mortified, and I would have wanted someone to be prosecuted for engaging in that kind of entertainment in front of my kids.” 
The law came before Parker after Friends of George’s, a self-described “LGBTQ theatre company” based in Memphis, filed a suit challenging the law. Several upcoming shows by the company include “Drag Rocks” and “The Dragnificent Variety Show: The Gay Ole Opry.”
Following the state’s Republican Gov. Bill Lee signing the legislation into law, a federal judge in Tennessee issued a temporary injunction against the law, saying it was too vague and a potential violation of the First Amendment.
Democrat Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy told The Associated Press that he does not mind that the judge placed an injunction on the law. 
“There has been much concern and confusion about the law from the community,” he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-blocks-tennessee-law-protecting-children-from-viewing-sexually-explicit-performances">said</a>. “This will allow the court to clarify the scope, application, and constitutionality of the statute. It’s important to understand the scope of this law so that it doesn’t have a harmful effect on constitutionally protected expression.” 

 Leif Le Mahieu contributed to this report.

Concert musician Lizzo

Lizzo Showcases Several Drag Queens During All-Ages Tennessee Concert, Protesting New State Law Restricting ‘Adult Cabaret’ Performances In Front Of Children

Lizzo Showcases Several Drag Queens During All-Ages Tennessee Concert, Protesting New State Law Restricting 'Adult Cabaret' Performances From Children

Drag Queens

RuPaul’s Drag Race

Tennessee

“<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/the-mandalorian">The Mandalorian</a>” recently surprised fans with two cameo guest star appearances: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lizzo">Lizzo</a> and Jack Black.
The two actors were featured in Wednesday’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/television">episode</a>, &#8220;Chapter 22: Guns for Hire.&#8221; The popular “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/star-wars">Star Wars</a>” spinoff stars Pedro Pascal as the titular character in the Disney+ series. 
Lizzo and Black played the Duchess and Captain Bombardier, a married couple ruling a planet named Plazir-15, which is being terrorized by its droids. Din Djarin (Pascal), Grogu, and Bo-Katan (Katee Sackhoff) meet the duo on their travels.
The episode also featured “Back to the Future” star Christopher Lloyd playing Commissioner Helgait.
Social media users shared their reactions upon seeing the “School of Rock” star and “Truth Hurts” singer appearing on the show.
“What are lizzo and jack black doing here?” one Twitter reaction <a href="https://twitter.com/lacriimas/status/1643512102693347328">asked</a>, echoing what so many others were saying. 
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what are lizzo and jack black doing here 💀 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/themandalorian?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#themandalorian</a> <a href="https://t.co/9aL5to3Ktj">pic.twitter.com/9aL5to3Ktj</a>
&mdash; cyn (@lacriimas) <a href="https://twitter.com/lacriimas/status/1643512102693347328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“It was so bad my 3 kids couldn&#8217;t even watch these scenes. They&#8217;ve seen enough good movies to instantly recognize just how awful it was in every aspect. The first 2 seasons were not great &#8211; but enjoyable. Season 3 feels like Disney handed the reins over to their college interns,” another account <a href="https://twitter.com/m_neary_1987/status/1643993815949144065" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a>. 
“Never shocked by what Disney decides to do,” a third account chimed in.
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Lizzo, who has dressed as “Star Wars” characters before for Halloween, posted on Twitter about the cameo. 
“As a kid my dad showed me Star Wars like a rite of passage. When I got the role of The Dutchess [sic] I cried all day. Dad I wish u were here to see this! Thanks to everyone in the Galaxy I am now part of the ever-expanding saga of the stars,” she <a href="https://twitter.com/lizzo/status/1643995599216451585">wrote</a>. “This is The Way… May the Force be with U.”
Black also commemorated his cameo by sharing a post of himself and Lizzo in full makeup and costumes to his Instagram. He wrote in the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cqp_pLruyap/">caption</a>, “So fun working. with @lizzobeeating on @themandalorian as the king and queen of Plazir-15!!!”
While some viewers admitted that Black and Lizzo weren’t horrible in the episode, their cameos still confused fans. 
(Disclosure: The Daily Wire has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/introducing-dw-kids">announced plans</a> for kids entertainment content.)

Jack Black and Lizzo

Lizzo And Jack Black Confuse ‘Star Wars’ Fans With Cameos In ‘The Mandalorian’

Lizzo And Jack Black Confuse ‘Star Wars’ Fans With Cameos In 'The Mandalorian'

Disney

Entertainment

Star Wars

Television

The Mandalorian

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lizzo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lizzo</a> expressed her concern over the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/victorias-secret" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Victoria’s Secret</a> fashion shows making a comeback.
The 34-year-old singer, whose real name is Melissa Viviane Jefferson, worries that the company is simply using “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/social-issues" target="_blank" rel="noopener">inclusivity</a>” as a way to make money.
“This is a win for inclusivity for inclusivity’s sake,” Lizzo tweeted along with a video clip of a Victoria’s Secret ad campaign from Valentine’s Day featuring models of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fat-acceptance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">all shapes</a> and sizes.
“But if brands start doing this only because they’ve received backlash then what happens when the ‘trends’ change again? Do the CEOs of these <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/business" target="_blank" rel="noopener">companies</a> value true inclusivity? Or do they just value money?” the “Truth Hurts&#8221; singer continued.
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This is a win for inclusivity for inclusivity’s sake
But if brands start doing this only because they’ve received backlash then what happens when the ‘trends’ change again?
Do the CEOs of these companies value true inclusivity? Or do they just value money? <a href="https://t.co/ykmcUTLayQ">https://t.co/ykmcUTLayQ</a>
&mdash; FOLLOW @YITTY (@lizzo) <a href="https://twitter.com/lizzo/status/1632379676566999040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Lizzo was responding to Victoria’s Secret announcing its decision to bring back a “new version” of their popular runway fashion shows, which began in 1995 but was put on hiatus in 2019. 
“We’re going to continue to lean into the marketing spend to invest in the business, both at top-of-funnel and also to support the new version of our fashion show, which is to come later this year,” Chief Financial Officer Timothy Johnson <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/victorias-secret-announces-new-version-of-fashion-show-after-4-year-hiatus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> during the company’s 2022 earnings call on Friday.
While details on the newest iteration of the runway show are not public yet, it’s clear that the brand has been embracing a variety of different models in recent years after facing criticism for not doing so in the past.
“Fashion is a business of change. We must evolve and change to grow,” CEO Leslie Wexner said in 2019 while announcing the end of the fashion show. “With that in mind, we have decided to rethink the traditional Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.”
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Since then, Victoria’s Secret has featured various models in its campaigns, including LGBTQ activist and professional soccer player Megan Rapinoe and a Brazilian transgender model named Valentina Sampaio. Most of their new campaigns include multiple plus-sized models as well.
Lizzo, meanwhile, has been at the forefront of the body positivity and body acceptance movement. As a plus-sized performer, the Detroit-born singer said she considers a person’s weight a personal matter. 
“I’m working out to have my ideal body type and you know what type it is? None of your f***ing business because I am beautiful, I am strong, I do my job, and I stay on my job,” the singer <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/lizzo-blasts-body-shamers-health" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asserted in 2020</a>.
“So next time you want to come to somebody and judge them whether they drink kale smoothies or eat McDonald’s, or work out or not work out, how about you look at your own f***ing self and worry about your own g** damn body because health is not just determined on what you look like on the outside,” she continued.
“Health is also what happens on the inside and a lot of ya’ll need to do a f***ing cleanse for your insides,&#8221; Lizzo said at the time.

KEYNOTE: Lizzo – 2022 SXSW Conference and Festivals

Lizzo Questions Return Of Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show: ‘Inclusivity For Inclusivity’s Sake’

Lizzo Questions Return Of Victoria's Secret Fashion Show: 'Inclusivity For Inclusivity's Sake'

Victoria's Secret

Rap artist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lizzo">Lizzo</a> has responded to critics who accused her of targeting white fans with her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">music</a>.
The topic came up during her recently released HBO Max documentary, “Love, Lizzo,” and she addressed critics during a recent interview. 
“[It’s] very hurtful, only because I am a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/race">black woman</a>, and I feel like it really challenges my identity and who I am, and diminishes that, which I think is really hurtful,” Lizzo <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJG2BAmeDog">said</a> during an appearance on “The Howard Stern Show.”
“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 …&#8217;” she continued. “And now I don’t want to answer no more questions about this s***. I want to show the world who I am.”
Lizzo describes her songs as “funky, soulful, feel-good music” inspired by many genres, including 70s and 80s artists.
This isn’t the first time the “Truth Hurts” singer addressed race as it relates to her music.
“I think if people did any research they would see that there was race music and then there was pop music,” she <a href="https://ew.com/tv/love-lizzo-documentary-concert-film-interview/">told</a> Entertainment Weekly in November. 
“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.”
Lizzo said while all her friends in school listened to rap music, she was mocked for being more into bands like Radiohead.
The 34-year-old Grammy winner, whose real name is Melissa Viviane Jefferson, previously spoke with Vanity Fair about her thoughts on race, politics, and twerking.
“When it’s sexual, it’s mine,” Lizzo said. “When it’s sexualized, someone is doing it to me or taking it from me. Black women are hypersexualized all the time, and masculinized simultaneously.”
“Because of the structure of racism, if you’re thinner and lighter, or your features are narrow, you’re closer to being a woman,” she went on, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lizzo-says-she-she-wears-skimpy-outfits-on-stage-to-be-political-and-feminist">reported</a>.
As for the popular dance style, Lizzo claimed twerking was a “black woman thing” that’s “printed in our DNA.”
“It disappeared and resurfaced in the 1920s, then disappeared and resurfaced in the 1980s. It’s an almost inexplicable phenomenon,” the “Good As Hell” composer said.

Total Wireless Presents LIZZO Live Powered By Pandora

‘Very Hurtful’: Lizzo Responds To Claims She Makes Music For White People

'Very Hurtful': Lizzo Responds To Claims She Makes Music For White People

Race

Apparently — in addition to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lizzo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lizzo</a> — there is some &#8220;artist&#8221; named Latto.
If you have no idea who that is, you are not alone.
This author had no clue who she was either until Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/stacey-abrams" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stacey Abrams</a> joined &#8220;Latto&#8221; on stage in Atlanta on Sunday night to tout abortion and ask the concert-goers to vote for her.
It was the latest reminder that the 2018 election loser is going to get crushed by incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp (R).
Abrams appeared during Latto&#8217;s hit song &#8220;P***y.&#8221;
Latto&#8217;s real name is Alyssa Michelle Stephens. She used to go by Mulatto. She wanted to reclaim the word until she <a href="https://www.distractify.com/p/why-did-mulatto-change-her-name" target="_blank" rel="noopener">realized</a> that name was historically offensive to biracial offspring, no matter how hard she tried to shift perception.
So instead, she changed her name to &#8220;Latto&#8221; and now uses her platform to encourage people to kill their offspring via abortion.
Latto was actually performing at a Lizzo concert, but Lizzo wasn&#8217;t part of Abrams&#8217; appearance, who took the stage holding a &#8220;MY BODY, MY CHOICE&#8221; sign.
&#8220;I’m not going to interrupt your fun,&#8221; Abrams told the crowd. &#8220;I just want to remind you if you believe ‘it’s my body, my choice,’ I need your vote! You gotta show up. This is our time. This is our choice and this is our year. I need your big energy! Let’s get it done.&#8221;
Of course, perhaps nothing could be less fun than any politician — let alone Abrams — interrupting a concert to ask for votes.
Based on video, the Lizzo/Latto concert already sounded like migraine-inducing dreck, but Abrams talking about bodily autonomy and abortion really added to the misery.
In response, Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro tweeted, &#8220;LMAO she&#8217;s gonna get crushed.&#8221;
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LMAO she&#39;s gonna get crushed <a href="https://t.co/8uY44x1PVJ">https://t.co/8uY44x1PVJ</a>
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Polling would indicate Shapiro is correct. According to the Real Clear Politics polling average, Kemp <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/governor/ga/georgia_governor_kemp_vs_abrams-7538.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leads</a> Abrams by eight points. In recent days, Abrams has become so desperate that she has begun to make stuff up on the campaign trail.
At a recent event with Oprah Winfrey, the election denier claimed that a litany of oppression would be unleashed on the entire state should Kemp be re-elected.
As reported, she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stacey-abrams-tells-oprah-elect-me-or-transgender-kids-will-be-banned-from-playing-with-friends-parents-will-be-forced-to-lie-and-gay-people-wont-be-protected" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Winfrey at an event called “A Thriving Life!” that Georgians should elect her or transgender kids would be banned from playing with friends, parents would be forced to lie, 500,000 people would lose health care, and LGBTQ individuals won’t be protected.
Days earlier, she attempted to make a case for abortion by seeming to imply that women who had children were more likely to suffer from the effects of inflation because they have kids to support financially.
Now, Abrams is content to appear on stage with degenerate rappers.
Latto&#8217;s song &#8220;P***y&#8221; is a bit too inappropriate to transcribe, even with asterisks. If readers are curious about understanding the intellectual depth of the latest celebrity to support Abrams, here is Latto&#8217;s explanation for one of her songs titled, &#8220;B**** From Da Souf.&#8221;
&#8220;The moments of inspiration for this song was I was just smelling myself, really,&#8221; Latto <a href="https://genius.com/artists/Latto" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on a recent internet forum. &#8220;I was just smelling myself, and I’m a real a**, rich a** b**** from the South. So, there really wasn’t much to it, it was just a biography.&#8221;
First Biden&#8217;s smelling habit, now Latto&#8217;s — what is it with leftists and their penchant for odd olfactory habits?
Abrams&#8217; decision to go all in on abortion will probably not make a difference in the race.
As polling shows, <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/1675/most-important-problem.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">most Americans</a> are concerned with inflation, the economy, and crime — not abortion or Latto&#8217;s body parts.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Stacey Abrams, Big Latto

Polling And Common Sense Shows Stacey Abrams Will Get Crushed This Election

Brian Kemp

Georgia

Stacey Abrams

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/stacey-abrams">Stacey Abrams</a> took the stage at a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lizzo">Lizzo</a> concert in Atlanta, making a last-minute plea for voters to show up on November 8 while reiterating her firm <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/abortion">pro-abortion</a> stance.
The Democratic candidate for governor of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/georgia">Georgia</a> walked out holding a &#8220;My body my choice&#8221; sign just after singer Latto’s performance of the song “P***y.” Latto was the opening act for Lizzo&#8217;s The Special Tour, per <a href="https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/stacey-abrams-latto-atlanta-lizzo-concert-1235159840/">Billboard</a>. 
“I’m not gonna interrupt your fun. I just want to remind you that if you believe in my body, my choice, I need your vote,” Abrams told the screaming crowd. “I need your big energy,” she continued. “Let’s get it!” 
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Last night at the <a href="https://twitter.com/lizzo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@lizzo</a> concert, <a href="https://twitter.com/Latto?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Latto</a> brought out Stacey Abrams during her performance. 🔥<a href="https://t.co/xuIdGS2S4a">pic.twitter.com/xuIdGS2S4a</a>
&mdash; Everything Georgia (@GAFollowers) <a href="https://twitter.com/GAFollowers/status/1584176329364471808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The gubernatorial candidate reiterated that sentiment on her Instagram account later. “Thank you for sharing your stage with me, @latto777. Time to vote and protect a woman’s right to choose,” Abrams shared. 
Abrams has been making headlines for her extreme position on abortion, which she has made a central focus of her campaign. Last week she seemed to imply that women who had children were more likely to suffer from the effects of inflation because they have kids to support financially. 
“But let’s be clear, having children is why you’re worried about your price for gas, it’s why you’re concerned about how much food costs,” Abrams <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inflation-hurting-your-family-thats-why-we-need-abortion-stacey-abrams-says">told</a> MSNBC anchor Mike Barnicle when he said issues like inflation are more important to voters than abortion. 
She went on to say that abortion is not a “reductive issue” for women.
In September, Abrams <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stacey-abrams-declares-it-is-a-fallacy-that-we-know-exactly-when-a-pregnancy-starts">also</a> claimed that a fetal heartbeat wasn’t real. “There is no such thing as a heartbeat at six weeks,” she said during a panel discussion. “It is a manufactured sound designed to convince people that men have the right to take control of a woman’s body in place of her.”
It makes perfect sense that Lizzo would be the one hosting such a pro-abortion extremist. The “Truth Hurts” singer was so upset that Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court in June that she and events promotion company Live Nation pledged $1 million to Planned Parenthood as a form of protest, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lizzo-and-live-nation-pledge-1-million-for-planned-parenthood-after-roe-v-wade-overturned">reported</a>. 
“The abortion ban is atrocious,” Lizzo said previously at one of her concerts as a response to a new Texas law. “Mind your business. Stay out of my body. This is not political.” She also claimed conservative politicians were “all up in her uterus.”
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Abrams’ Rally in Dallas

Stacey Abrams Takes Stage At Lizzo Concert With ‘My Body, My Choice’ Sign After Latto Performs ‘P***y’

Stacey Abrams Takes Stage At Lizzo Concert With ‘My Body, My Choice’ Sign After Latto Performs 'P***y'

2022 Midterms

Abortion

Music

Rap artist Lizzo rejected the idea that when she wears skimpy outfits on stage it contributes to the sexualization of women, saying that she does it to be &#8220;political and feminist.&#8221;
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lizzo">34-year-old</a> Grammy winner, born Melissa Viviane Jefferson, spoke to Vanity Fair about wearing those revealing outfits and said &#8220;black women are hypersexualized all the time,&#8221; in a piece published by the <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/10/lizzo-is-here-to-talk-about-all-of-it">outlet</a> Tuesday.
&#8220;When it’s sexual, it&#8217;s mine,&#8221; the rapper said. &#8220;When it&#8217;s sexualized, someone is doing it to me or taking it from me. Black women are hypersexualized all the time, and masculinized simultaneously.&#8221;
&#8220;Because of the structure of racism, if you&#8217;re thinner and lighter, or your features are narrow, you&#8217;re closer to being a woman,&#8221; she added.
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Presenting our November cover star, <a href="https://twitter.com/lizzo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Lizzo</a>. 
Halfway to achieving EGOT status, the Emmy and Grammy winner sat down with Lisa Robinson for a frank conversation about internet criticism, the nuances of positivity, and the “love of [her] life.” 
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&mdash; VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) <a href="https://twitter.com/VanityFair/status/1579804758201597952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 11, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;After [Beyoncé&#8217;s &#8216;Single Ladies&#8217;] it seemed like it became the industry standard for everyone,&#8221; the rap artist continued. &#8220;I wanted to be like a dancer and also, it was kind of political and feminist in my eyes to have me, a full-figured dancer, wearing leotards, showing and celebrating curves and being Olympian in strength, endurance, and flexibility.&#8221;
The singer explained that over the last hundred years, &#8220;movements have to evolve generationally. The culture changes. You can&#8217;t have a movement in 1920 be the same thing as it is in the 2020s. We have to match the rebellion.&#8221;
Later, the &#8220;Good as Hell&#8221; hitmaker talked about twerking and said it&#8217;s a &#8220;black woman thing&#8221; that&#8217;s &#8220;printed in our DNA,&#8221; referencing comments she made in her <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/lizzo_the_black_history_of_twerking_and_how_it_taught_me_self_love?language=en">TED Talk</a> about the &#8220;Black History of Twerking.&#8221;
&#8220;I think it deserved being intellectualized, it deserved to have a classical etymology, it needed an origin story,&#8221; Lizzo shared. &#8220;It’s a Black woman thing, it was almost printed in our DNA. It disappeared and resurfaced in the 1920s, then disappeared and resurfaced in the 1980s. It’s an almost inexplicable phenomenon.&#8221;
RELATED: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/james-madison-rep-invites-lizzo-to-tour-his-montpelier-estate-after-she-twerked-with-his-crystal-flute">James Madison Rep Invites Lizzo To Tour His Montpelier Estate After She Twerked With His Crystal Flute</a>

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Singer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lizzo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lizzo</a> answered critics of her weight and the &#8220;fat acceptance&#8221; movement during a concert on Friday.
Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, on Thursday <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kanye-praises-candace-owens-flames-legacy-media-in-wide-ranging-interview-with-tucker-carlson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told Fox News Tucker Carlson</a> that Lizzo, whom he considers a friend, has been criticized for losing weight, something he found extremely troubling and tied to a larger targeting of black Americans.
“I feel like everybody in America got my motherf***ing name in their motherf***ing mouth for no motherf***ing reason,” Lizzo <a href="https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/lizzo-kanye-west-tucker-carlson-weight-comments-response-1235153146/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> her fans at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena.
“I’m minding my fat black beautiful business,” the &#8220;About Damn Time&#8221; singer said. “Can I stay here? Who can I marry for that dual citizenship?”
“When Lizzo loses 10 pounds and announces it, the bots … on Instagram, they attack her losing weight, because the media wants to put out a perception that being overweight is the new goal when it’s actually unhealthy,” the &#8220;Donda&#8221; rapper told Carlson during a long-ranging interview on Thursday. “It’s demonic.”
Lizzo was notably criticized for going on a ten-day health detox in 2020 and seemed to <a href="https://www.instyle.com/beauty/health-fitness/lizzo-10-day-smoothie-cleanse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">clarify</a> her dedication to the fat acceptance movement in the wake of the backlash.
Daily Wire host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/candace" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Candace Owens</a> last month echoed West&#8217;s concerns about the fat acceptance movement, specifically addressing Lizzo&#8217;s routine <a href="https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/lizzo-body-icon-i-like-being-fat-1235037977/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promotion of her fatness</a>.
“What she’s advocating for, really, is depression, unhappiness,” the BLEXIT founder <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPBnfR7Q1Wc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> host Brett Cooper on The Daily Wire’s “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/TheCommentsSection" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Comments Section</a>.”
“I feel like people should know that, because that’s what Hollywood does: they advocate lies that actually harm individuals,” Owens added.
“There is no way that somebody that is that size is happy, and I want to make that abundantly clear,” the &#8220;Candace&#8221; host asserted. “She may have all the things that she has, and she may have access to private jets, and she may be smiling in these commercials, and have a fat bank account … but at the end of the day, you cannot carry that much weight on you and wake up and be happy every day.”
“I love food, I love being fat, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lizzo-bares-her-entire-butt-in-revealing-new-instagram-promo-for-yitty-shapewear" target="_blank" rel="noopener">I love to be fat in front of my private plane</a> and be half naked — and if you don’t like it, it’s because you’re problematic and not me,” Owens mocked.
“I’m not shaming fat people who want to be better,” she emphasized. “I am shaming fat people who are pretending that fat is a good way of living. It’s a lie. It’s just a lie.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/advocating-depression-unhappiness-candace-owens-takes-on-lizzo-her-fans-and-the-fat-acceptance-movement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘Advocating’ ‘Depression, Unhappiness’: Candace Owens Takes On Lizzo, Her Fans, And The ‘Fat Acceptance’ Movement</a>

‘Minding My Fat Black Beautiful Business’: Lizzo Responds To Criticism Of ‘Fat Acceptance’ Movement

Kanye West

Not everyone is thrilled that rap artist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lizzo">Lizzo</a> twerked onstage while playing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/founding-fathers">James Madison</a>’s crystal flute, but a rep from the founding father’s Montpelier Estate doesn’t seem very upset.
The rep <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2022/10/03/lizzo-invite-perform-james-madison-home-crystal-flute/">told</a> TMZ that they invited Lizzo to tour the Virginia property after clips of her playing the priceless flute went viral. The publication noted that the estate would be interested in the “Truth Hurts” singer putting on a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/entertainment">performance</a> while she’s there, whether it’s scheduled or impromptu.
The 34-year-old Grammy winner hasn’t responded to the invitation publicly yet.
The historic 2,650-acre Montpelier estate serves as a museum of artifacts to educate the public. It has been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/james-madisons-montpelier-gets-a-crt-renovation">criticized</a> for promoting CRT (critical race theory), with The Montpelier Foundation seeking to “unpack and interrogate white privilege and supremacy and systemic racism” in their educational materials. 
Books available for purchase in the gift shop include “Antiracist Baby” by Ibram X. Kendi and “Born on the Water,” which is co-authored by Nikole Hannah-Jones of the “The 1619 Project&#8221; fame.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lizzo-plays-200-year-old-crystal-flute-lent-from-the-library-of-congress-b-i-just-twerked-and-played-james-madisons-flute">reported</a>, Lizzo stunned her D.C. audience when she played a few notes on the crystal flute, which had reportedly never been played before. It was lent to her by the Library of Congress.
“B****, I just twerked and played James Madison’s flute from the 1800s!” she said from the stage.
Later, Lizzo shared several clips of the event with her 12.9 million Instagram followers. One video included a caption saying, “YALL.. THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LET ME PLAY THEIR HISTORIC 200 YEAR OLD CRYSTAL FLUTE ON STAGE TONIGHT. NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE… NOW YOU DO.”
“This is crazy. I have to be really careful,” Lizzo told the audience in the video.
It’s worth noting that Lizzo is a classically trained flutist who’s been playing since childhood. There’s also a clip of her playing the instrument during a tour of the Library of Congress. 
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“Lizzo reverently took Madison’s crystal flute in hand and blew a few notes. This isn’t easy, as the instrument is more than 200 years old. She blew a few more when she was in the Great Hall and Main Reading Room,” April Slayton, Director of Communications at the Library of Congress, <a href="https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2022/09/its-about-danged-time-lizzo-at-the-library/">wrote</a> in a blog post about the visit. 
“Then, reaching for a more practical flute from the collection, she serenaded employees and a few researchers. It filled the space with music as sublime as the art and architecture.”

Lizzo In Concert – New York, NY

James Madison Rep Invites Lizzo To Tour His Montpelier Estate After She Twerked With His Crystal Flute

Founding Fathers

A month ago, Lizzo claimed she was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lizzo-uses-mtv-award-speech-to-claim-that-shes-oppressed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">oppressed</a>. On Tuesday night, she played <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lizzo-plays-200-year-old-crystal-flute-lent-from-the-library-of-congress-b-i-just-twerked-and-played-james-madisons-flute" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Madison&#8217;s crystal flute</a> before thousands as the nation goes to hell in a hand-basket.
&#8220;What&#8217;s a &#8216;Lizzo?'&#8221; might be your first question. She is a larger-than-life pop star with an appetite for twerking, the Democratic Party, and apparently history.
“How can an oppressed person play a historic national treasure and be celebrated for it?&#8221; might be your second question. We&#8217;ll answer that in a moment.
On Tuesday night, Lizzo surprised concert-goers in one of Washington, D.C.&#8217;s, most soulless neighborhoods, Navy Yard, with a surprise performance on the Founding Father’s flute lent to her by the Library of Congress.
&#8220;B****, I just twerked and played James Madison’s flute from the 1800s!&#8221; she hollered on stage, according to the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11257537/Lizzo-plays-200-year-old-crystal-flute-lent-Library-Congress.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Mail</a>.
Lizzo also <a href="https://twitter.com/roswellencina/status/1574974716531871744?s=20&amp;t=AuGDV0xPPGHQhk1hA6Jngw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>, &#8220;history is freaking cool.&#8221; In all caps, the singer of American modern classics like &#8220;About Damn Time&#8221; and &#8220;Grrrls,&#8221; tweeted, &#8220;NOBODY HAS EVER HEARD THIS FAMOUS CRYSTAL FLUTE BEFORE NOW YOU HAVE IM THE FIRST &amp; ONLY PERSON TO EVER PLAY THIS PRESIDENTIAL 200-YEAR-OLD CRYSTAL FLUTE— THANK YOU @librarycongress ❤️.&#8221;
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NOBODY HAS EVER HEARD THIS FAMOUS CRYSTAL FLUTE BEFORE
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IM THE FIRST &amp; ONLY PERSON TO EVER PLAY THIS PRESIDENTIAL 200-YEAR-OLD CRYSTAL FLUTE— THANK YOU <a href="https://twitter.com/librarycongress?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@librarycongress</a> ❤️ <a href="https://t.co/VgXjpC49sO">pic.twitter.com/VgXjpC49sO</a>
&mdash; FOLLOW @YITTY (@lizzo) <a href="https://twitter.com/lizzo/status/1575003731640274944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The answer to your second question is that Lizzo is not oppressed — obviously. She has more <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-823-the-spoiled-privileged-brats-who-wish-they-were-oppressed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">money</a> than God and is loved by a large number of people.
As for national treasures, many like conservative strategist Greg Price pointed out that the bureaucratic stewards of our country, mostly leftists, do not actually care about its history.
&#8220;The Library of Congress really took out a 200-year-old flute that belonged to James Madison just so Lizzo could twerk with it,&#8221; Price <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1575174265321635840?s=20&amp;t=AuGDV0xPPGHQhk1hA6Jngw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>. &#8220;They degrade our history and then call you racist if you actually value it.&#8221;
It is true. Lizzo has <a href="https://people.com/music/lizzo-condemns-institutional-racism-global-citizen-live-performance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> America institutionally racist. The Left believes that <a href="https://www.nbcboston.com/news/politics/biden-vows-to-address-institutional-racism-in-first-100-days-as-president/2134938/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sentiment</a> is basically a litmus test for Democratic candidates seeking office.
Lizzo was even euphoric after Biden was declared the winner of the presidential election in 2020.
&#8220;And this time I was hopeful and I was scared and I think Trump is out of office officially,&#8221; Lizzo <a href="https://www.thethings.com/lizzo-gives-an-emotional-response-to-joe-biden-winning-the-presidential-election/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in November 2020. &#8220;I&#8217;m seeing the news everywhere—I think this is the end of that four-year term that felt like a thousand years where people lost their lives, their livelihoods, this country fell into a pandemic, a recession and you can&#8217;t really blame one president for things but you can blame them for how they handled it.&#8221;
Of course, under Biden, even more people have lost their lives from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-official-more-americans-have-died-from-coronavirus-under-biden-than-trump-despite-biden-pledge-to-shut-down-the-virus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">COVID</a>, as well as <a href="https://www.health.state.mn.us/news/pressrel/2022/drugod071422.html#:~:text=Many%20of%20the%20opioid%20overdose,of%20all%20deaths%20involving%20opioids." target="_blank" rel="noopener">drug overdoses</a>, crime has <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/09/11/united-states-major-cities-violent-crime-homicides-survey/8060734001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">skyrocketed</a> in major American cities, people have lost their livelihoods and then some through inflation, and the U.S. is currently in a recession with more pain on the horizon.
Lizzo&#8217;s criticism of Biden has been noticeably absent. Or maybe nobody bothered to notice — because who really cares what she says? But since the Library of Congress hoisted her into American history by giving her the flute, we now need to discuss it.
Lizzo, like all Biden voters, seems blissfully unaware that Biden&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-america-stinks-on-ice-inflation-already-hurting-holiday-shopping" target="_blank" rel="noopener">America stinks on ice</a>, to put it bluntly.
Biden is equally oblivious that his foreign, economic, and energy policies are harming America.
Because of his fecklessness, the entire world has been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-just-offered-to-lead-russia-ukraine-peace-negotiations-biden-should-accept" target="_blank" rel="noopener">destabilized</a> by the war in Ukraine and the resurgence of the Taliban. He <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/im-sick-of-this-stuff-biden-complains-that-the-american-people-believe-increased-government-spending-causes-inflation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denies</a> that government spending contributes to inflation, and says the answer to high prices is more government spending. His policies have actively <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-pain-is-the-point-energy-secretary-blasted-after-saying-summer-gas-prices-were-going-to-be-rough" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discouraged</a> fossil fuel production, and now Americans are facing a winter of actual pain as energy prices look set to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dems-manmade-energy-crisis-hits-new-england-granholm-begs-governors-to-increase-fuel-inventories" target="_blank" rel="noopener">skyrocket</a>.
Biden wasn&#8217;t actually at Lizzo&#8217;s concert on Tuesday night, but at the rate he tells tall tales, he&#8217;ll likely claim by next month that he was on stage with her as she shook her derriere and showed off her flute skills.
Lizzo says she is oppressed, Biden says America is doing great, and they&#8217;re both delusional about the state of the country. They are a match made in Heaven, these two.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Lizzo, Joe Biden

How Did Lizzo Go From Being ‘Oppressed’ To Playing James Madison’s Flute While Twerking?

How Did Lizzo Go From Being 'Oppressed' To Playing James Madison's Flute While Twerking?

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Joe Biden

Leftism

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lizzo">Lizzo</a> used a very special <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/music">musical instrument</a> during her D.C. concert performance Tuesday night.
The 34-year-old rap artist claimed to be the first person ever to play a 200-year-old crystal flute lent to her by The Library of Congress. The instrument was previously owned by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/founding-fathers">founding father</a> James Madison, the fourth president of the United States.
“B****, I just twerked and played James Madison&#8217;s flute from the 1800s!” she hollered from the stage during a stop in our nation’s capital as part of her Special Tour, according to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11257537/Lizzo-plays-200-year-old-crystal-flute-lent-Library-Congress.html">The Daily Mail</a>.
She shared a clip of the event with her 12.9 million Instagram followers alongside the caption: “YALL.. THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LET ME PLAY THEIR HISTORIC 200 YEAR OLD CRYSTAL FLUTE ON STAGE TONIGHT. NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE… NOW YOU DO,” she said, tagging the Library of Congress.
“This is crazy. I have to be really careful,” Lizzo told the audience while introducing the priceless instrument. 
She continued, saying, “This is from the early 1800s, this was a gift to James Madison from a French crystal flute designer to celebrate his second term. There was a fire… and the only two things that were saved were a portrait of George Washington and this crystal flute right here,” the “Truth Hurts” singer continued. 
“I am the first person to ever play it, so you’re about to hear what it sounds like for the first time,” Lizzo said. “Thank you to the Library of Congress for preserving our history and making history cool. History is freaking cool, you guys!”
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NOBODY HAS EVER HEARD THIS FAMOUS CRYSTAL FLUTE BEFORE
NOW YOU HAVE
IM THE FIRST &amp; ONLY PERSON TO EVER PLAY THIS PRESIDENTIAL 200-YEAR-OLD CRYSTAL FLUTE— THANK YOU <a href="https://twitter.com/librarycongress?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@librarycongress</a> ❤️ <a href="https://t.co/VgXjpC49sO">pic.twitter.com/VgXjpC49sO</a>
&mdash; FOLLOW @YITTY (@lizzo) <a href="https://twitter.com/lizzo/status/1575003731640274944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The singer played the flute, twerked onstage, then handed it back to the representative. Per <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/09/28/1125564856/lizzo-james-madison-crystal-flute-concert">NPR</a>, it was then escorted back to the library safely with Capitol police as an escort.
Before the concert, Lizzo visited the Library of Congress and played several flutes from their archive, the publication reported. The Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden exchanged tweets with the pop star before she visited D.C. 
“The @librarycongress has the largest flute collection in the world with more than 1,800. It incl Pres James Madison’s 1813 crystal flute @lizzo we would love for you to come see it and even play a couple when you are in DC next week. Like your song they are ‘Good as hell,&#8217;” she shared along with a winking face emoji.
“IM COMING CARLA! AND IM PLAYIN THAT CRYSTAL FLUTE!!!!!” the singer <a href="https://twitter.com/lizzo/status/1573681768145817607">replied</a>.
Lizzo is a classically trained flutist and frequently performs with that instrument during concerts.
The “About Damn Time” singer has been making headlines recently for her statements on politics. Most recently, she used her acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards to speak out against “laws that oppress us,” inspiring critics to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/probably-not-oppressed-lizzo-is-a-key-player-in-normalizing-obesity">speculate</a> who could be less oppressed than Lizzo.

Lizzo Plays 200-Year-Old Crystal Flute Lent From The Library of Congress: ‘B****, I Just Twerked And Played James Madison’s Flute’

Lizzo Plays 200-Year Old Crystal Flute Lent From The Library of Congress

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