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Lizzo is finally ready to release her new album: the pop star has announced that their fifth LP, “Bitch,” will be released on June 5th.
On Instagram, Lizzo shared the album title and release date, as well as the cover artwork: a hand giving the middle finger – with said finger replaced by a beaming photo of Lizzo throwing her arms up in laughter. “Happy birthday to me!” Lizzo wrote in the caption, because today, April 27th, is actually her birthday. “Wanna get me a gift? Pre-order my album baby!!!!”
Lizzo also released the tracklist for “Bitch” – although there is no further information on features or possible collaborations yet. “Bitch” is Lizzo’s first regular solo album in four years, following 2022’s “Special” and her 2025 mixtape “My Face Hurts from Smiling.”
The End of “Love in Real Life”
“Bitch” replaces “Love in Real Life,” the album that Lizzo first announced in February 2025. Back then, she released two singles – the title track and “Still Bad” – and performed a third unreleased song, “Don’t Make Me You Love U,” on “Saturday Night Live.” But the singles received heavy criticism and didn’t make any waves in the charts; the album never appeared.
In a large profile in “New York Magazine” last year, Lizzo expressed dissatisfaction with the early singles: “Still Bad” was “overproduced” and “overthought,” and both songs – “Still Bad” and “Love in Real Life” – were written in 2022. “By 2025, I had changed, the world had changed so much, and so much had happened,” Lizzo said. “It’s not that I felt detached from what I was putting out, because I created it myself – but it just didn’t match how I was feeling at the time. I thought, ‘I need to do things differently, I don’t know how yet, but I’ll just follow my instincts.'”
Instead of “Love in Real Life,” Lizzo released the rap-heavy mixtape “My Face Hurts From Smiling” last June. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Lizzo talked about regaining some of her lost self-confidence and that her next album should be “a little darker” and about “the dark times” – apparently alluding to the ongoing legal battle with former dancers who have accused her of harassment. (Lizzo has denied the allegations.)
Everything new on “Bitch”
It’s unclear how much of the material on “Bitch” was originally intended for “Love in Real Life” or whether Lizzo reorganized the album from scratch. The LP owes its album title to a song called “Bitch,” which Lizzo teased in the ROLLING STONE interview but hasn’t released yet. “Love in Real Life” and “Still Bad” don’t appear on the tracklist – but “Don’t Make Me Love U,” which was officially released as a single last month and is now part of the album, does.
