Lizzo is again. After extremely publicized legal battles and her Barbie tune “Pink,” the pop singer returns together with her first new tune in two years. Doubling because the lead-single for a forthcoming album of the identical title, “Love in Actual Life” arrives with a Colin Tilley-directed music video that pays homage to Michael Jackson’s iconic “Thriller” video, with Lizzo wearing black lace and leather-based, main a gaggle of dancers by means of an alley, and surviving assaults by face-melting characters. Watch it under.
Aside from her Barbie contribution, Lizzo hasn’t launched any music since her album Special got here out in 2022. That mentioned, she did join Incubus onstage in Los Angeles in 2023 for a flute cameo throughout “Aqueous Transmission” and broke out the instrument throughout an episode of The Simpsons.
In August 2023, Lizzo was sued by three former dancers for sexual harassment and making a hostile work surroundings. The pop star referred to as the allegations “as unbelievable as they sound and too outrageous to not be addressed” in a statement on social media, after which issued a formal denial in court docket.
In a second lawsuit filed, in September 2023, by a distinct former worker who labored in Lizzo’s wardrobe division on tour, named Asha Daniels, claimed that she was typically refused breaks throughout 20-hour shifts, and that she overheard racist and fatphobic feedback from members of her crew. In December 2024, a California federal choose ruled that Daniels didn’t have the standing to sue Lizzo as a person in that office harassment lawsuit as a result of she named the musician’s manufacturing firm and payroll firm as her direct employers, not the pop star.
Revisit the 2019 Pitchfork article “Lizzo’s 10 Best Flute Videos.”
