“Black women are treated disgusting”

Lizzo Backs the criticism that she received for her comeback song “Still Bad”. In a series of X-Posts on Monday and Tuesday, the pop singer criticized the people who say that their music was “too optimistic”. She said that the joy of a black woman simply “triggered” people.

“I think people get unhappy when they see and hear a black woman makes real music with radical joy. But I step into the footsteps of Janet, Funkadelic, Earth Wind and Fire. Nobody does it like me. And I stand by that”, ” wrote Lizzo In a post. Before that, she had described that her song ‘Still Bad’ was more of a ‘call to act against the negativity’ that she experienced.

“Imagine you hear ‘Say it loud i’m black and i’m rud.’ And say it is too optimistic. drove them away. “What others say? You don’t want to listen, you just want to hate 🤪”

In several posts, Lizzo compared the hatred she (and her music) received with which black icons like James Brown, Janet Jackson, Tina Turner and Whitney Houston had to take. Houston and Aretha Franklin received “counter reactions” because they were too pop. “They continued. And I will do that too”, wrote she. “I’m out here. And get the skirt ‘n’ roll back for us.”

Lizzo on “X”:

“The way this world treats black women is disgusting. Janet was put on the black list. And now, 20 years later, you all call her music” cute black girl bops “. And gives you flowers. Whitney was persecuted for her love life and mocked as a drug addict. But now you want to honor them all ”, wrote she later. “You laughed at Tina’s abuse and never let them forget that. The least protected person in America.”

Lizzo ended her Twitter posts by encouraging people not to be able to get themselves down from the Internet. And others encouraged “to free themselves from the opinions of people who do not matter”. She wrote: “What happened to me should destroy me. But it only freed me! Now I know that nothing of it is real. The only thing that is real is the love that I share with my family, my friends, nature and my fans in real life.”

“Still bathroom”

Lizzo’s posts come a few days after she has released her comeback single “Still Bad”. The first single of your upcoming album Love in Real Lifethat is to be released later this year. During her show in Los Angeles, the singer revealed that she was in a “deep depression” before her return.

“The world broke my heart. I was so deeply injured that I didn’t want to live anymore. And I was so afraid of people that I didn’t want to be seen,” she said at the show. “At some point I overcome this fear. I went to a concert like this. And when I went through the crowd, something wonderful happened. Someone I didn’t know looked at me and said:” Lizzo, I love you. “