A new track and a Saturday Night Live performance announce new Lizzo music after three years. Her last album, Cuz I Love You, was her first charting record and RIAA-certified Platinum with six well-performing promotional singles. Lizzo is riding high on her success after branching out into acting and production for an Amazon series, so you can expect to hear a lot of Lizzo this year.
A Houston Rap upbringing and time served in the Minneapolis hip-hop scene coalesced into seriously prominent star potential with Lizzo’s 2013 debut. Since then, she has incorporated more R&B elements into her music, peaking with Cuz I Love You, her first major-label LP. Her 2017 single “Truth Hurts” slowly gained traction leading up to her 2019 album, highlighting the anthemic core of her best songs along with “Juice” and the re-released single “Good As Hell.”
The subtle incorporation of funk has developed in Lizzo’s music amid the more prominent classic gospel/soul influence, but on “About Damn Time,” it’s more prominent than ever. With a rhythmic guitar part and bouncy bass part punctuating her swagger, she appears to be in a more pop songwriting mood than usual here. Though we can probably expect more hip-hop elements to show up on the new record, they are dampened here for a different range of classic influences.
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Her last record, Cuz I Love You, is the peak collection to listen to, but her other albums, Lizzobangers and Big Grrrl Small World, have merit as well. Check out everything on streaming (though the second record is not on Spotify).