Lizzo ‘very hurt’ by claims she makes music for white people

In a minute she’s gonna set the document straight.

Lizzo issued a rebuke Monday to critics who accused her of creating music that solely appeals to white individuals — an allegation raised in her new HBO Max documentary, “Love, Lizzo.”

“[It’s] very hurtful, solely as a result of I'm a Black lady, and I really feel prefer it actually challenges my id and who I'm, and diminishes that, which I believe is absolutely hurtful,” the “Juice” singer, 34, mentioned throughout an look on “The Howard Stern Present.”

The three-time Grammy winner famous she doesn’t attempt to “gatekeep” her message.

“I really feel like lots of people, honestly, don’t get me — which is why I wished to do that documentary, as a result of I used to be like, ‘I really feel like y’all don’t perceive me, y’all don’t know the place I got here from …'” she continued. “And now I don’t need to reply no extra questions on this s–t. I need to present the world who I'm.”

Lizzo addressed misconceptions and misguided criticisms about herself whereas speaking to Howard Stern on his present.

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In her HBO Max documentary, “Love, Lizzo,” the 34-year-old singer revealed she has been accused of creating music that solely appeals to white individuals.

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Lizzo mentioned she is influenced by Black music from the Seventies and ’80s, calling her personal work “funky, soulful, feel-good music.”

In an interview final month with Leisure Weekly, Lizzo referred to as out pop music as “racist inherently.”

“I believe if individuals did any analysis they'd see that there was race music after which there was pop music,” she defined. “And race music was their means of segregating Black artists from being mainstream, as a result of they didn’t need their children listening to music created by Black and brown individuals as a result of they mentioned it was demonic and yada, yada, yada.”

The singer claims she was bullied at school as a result of she preferred bands like Radiohead.

“It was a Black faculty,” Lizzo informed Vainness Honest for its November cowl story. “Principally Black and brown, Caribbean, I had Nigerian mates … They had been all listening to what was on the radio: Usher, Future’s Little one, Ludacris and I used to be into Radiohead’s ‘OK Pc.’”

Lizzo calls her personal work “funky, soulful, feel-good music.”

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“I saved it hidden, even after I was in a rock band, as a result of I didn’t need to be made enjoyable of by my friends — they’d yell, ‘White lady!’” she recalled.

Lizzo alleged the scholars even made enjoyable of her clothes.

“I used to be sporting these flared bell-bottoms with embroidery down it — they usually’d say, ‘You seem like a white lady, why do you need to seem like a hippie?’” Lizzo recounted. “I wished to be accepted so dangerous; not becoming in actually damage.”