In Lizzo‘s HBO documentary, Love, Lizzo, the singer got candid about how she feels when people attack her and her music. She spoke on the matter again as a recent guest on The Howard Stern Show. This time the “About Damn Time” singer is clapping back.
As reported by Uproxx, Stern asked her to “address” the comments she gets about “making white music.”
“[It is] very hurtful only because I am a Black woman,” she said. “I feel like it challenges my identity and who I am. It diminishes that, which I think is really hurtful. And on the other end, I’m making funky, soulful, feel-good music that is so similar to a lot of Black music that was made for Black people in the ’70s and ’80s.”
She mentioned she thinks music should be for everyone, adding, “Then, on top of that, my message is literally for everybody and anybody. And I don’t try to gatekeep my message from people.”
Lizzo claimed that the misinterpretation of her music might result from people not truly knowing her.
“So, all three of those things from me, and I’m like, you don’t even get me at all,” she continued. “I feel like a lot of people truthfully don’t get me, which is why I wanted to do the documentary. I feel like y’all don’t get me. Y’all don’t know where I came from. And now, I don’t want to answer no more questions about this s**t. I just want to show the world who I am.”
This isn’t the first time Lizzo, whose real name is Melissa Jefferson, addressed the haters. She also spoke about making music from the perspective of a Black woman in her October cover interview with Vanity Fair.
“I am not making music for white people. I am a Black woman; I am making music from my Black experience, for me to heal myself [from] the experience we call life,” she told the outlet.
“If I can help other people, hell yeah,” she continued. “Because we are the most marginalized and neglected people in this country. We need self-love and self-love anthems more than anybody.”
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Blavity previously reported that Lizzo doubled down on her stance in an Entertainment Weekly interview.
“Genre’s racist inherently. I think if people did any research, they would see that there was race music, and then there was pop music,” she explained, EW reports.
The musician continued, “Race music was their way of segregating Black artists from being mainstream because they didn’t want their kids listening to music created by Black and brown people because they said it was demonic and yada, yada, yada.”
The Detroit Native continues to prove that she has some of the toughest skin in the business. She continues to top the charts and step outside of every box that people try to place her in.
As she mentioned in her sit-down with Entertainment Weekly, you’re missing out if you choose not to like her.
“You just gotta get used to me because I’m making good s**t. You missing out,” she exclaimed at the time.
