Lizzo has revealed that her new album ‘Love In Real Life’ is “finished” and she is set to perform on Saturday Night Live.
It comes after she previously released the LP’s title track as the lead single last month, and has since gone on to drop the unapologetic song ‘Still Bad’.
Taking to Instagram she wrote: “ALBUM IS DONE YALL! ASTROLOGY EXPERTS Do my mercury got micro braids? Cus I got an emergency root canal, announced SNL & finished my album all in one day today.”
She is set to appear on SNL on April 12 alongside actor Jon Hamm.
Earlier this month, Lizzo explained how she came up with the album title for her fifth LP, saying that it came about after she realised how much more integral real-life friendships are compared to those through social media.
“I think that real life is the only place that love exists,” she said. “I think that I have mistaken the gratification that you get from social media as love. Because there was a time [where] I wasn’t reaching out to the people who were closest to me or I was in isolation, in desolation, in certain times of my life. The internet was the only place I felt seen and appreciated.”
“I think when it stops becoming that safe space and it becomes a very toxic, destructive place, your sense of self-worth gets destroyed as well,” she added. “I had to discover in the past two years, one and a half years, that as good as it feels to be praised online and to be loved by people through a screen, the real love happens when you are in the real world connecting with people.”
These comments come after Lizzo broke her silence in December on the sexual harassment lawsuit filed against her in 2023, claiming that she “did nothing wrong”. She had been sued by three former dancers who claimed to have been subject to sexual harassment and a hostile workplace environment while on tour. The singer denied the claims and said the situation had left her contemplating quitting the music industry.
Yesterday (March 19), she also hit back at people criticising her music and other Black pop icons in the past.
