Lizzo
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Our Real President Wants Us to 'Drop the Ageism Shit'
Lizzo, also known as our bad bitch-in-chief, wants you to keep focused on the things that matter this (endless) election season, and according to her, age ain’t one of those things. In a series of now-deleted tweets from Saturday, the “Juice” singer (per the Huffington Post) wrote: “I hear a lot of about Bernie Sanders…
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'Houston We Have a Problem': Megan Thee Stallion and Lizzo Team Up for the Most Pure Hot Girl Video
We are one day away from the release of Megan Thee Stallion and Nicki Minaj’s much-anticipated collaboration, “Hot Girl Summer,” but Meg found it in her heart to gift us with one more blessed hangout: her and the incomparable Lizzo. The link-up started out as many Megan events do, with the Houston rapper pouring a…
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'Hot Girl Summer,' Who? Drop Everything, Because Lizzo Just Dropped That 'Tempo'—With Missy Elliott
I been waitin’ for this one….Turn it up! Thought you were having a “Hot Girl Summer”? According to Lizzo, it’s “Thick Bitch Summer”—and we just got our summer anthem (actually, we’ll take both, please). They say never meet your heroes, but our favorite sangin’, rappin’, body-positive phenom Lizzo just teamed up with her sangin’, rappin’,…
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Halle Bailey of Chloe x Halle Will Play Ariel in Disney’s Live-Action Remake of The Little Mermaid
A wise crustacean once said that it’s better down where it’s wetter and I’m pretty sure he made this statement because he foresaw the melanin that was going to hit the Seven Seas! Thus, Disney has chosen to make blackness a part of their world by casting Halle Bailey of R&B singing duo Chloe x…
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Lizzo Tosses Her Hair, er, Hat in the Ring to Play Ursula in Little Mermaid as Melissa McCarthy Said to Be Disney’s Pick
Upon hearing the news Friday that Disney had someone else in mind to play the sea witch Ursula in the highly anticipated live-action version of The Little Mermaid, Lizzo quickly made it known for one and all to see that Disney should surely, “Pick me!” After taking to Twitter to attach a sad emoji face to…
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Lizzo Is Looking ‘Good as Hell’ in Her 1st Cosmetics Campaign for Urban Decay
Fun fact: It took Naomi “Living Legged Legend” Campbell over three decades of modeling to score her first cosmetics campaign—which makes the fact that Lizzo just scored hers less than three years after her breakthrough in the music industry pretty, well…MAJOR. Lizzo is looking “Good as Hell” in a prismatic eye look in Urban Decay’s…
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2019 MTV Movie & TV Awards: Lizzo Came, Lizzo Saw, Lizzo Conquered
The MTV Movie & TV Awards are a lot. Part spectacle, part accolade, it essentially serves as an annual ode to Viacom’s colorful cast of characters and unheralded heroes. From the expansive Love and Hip-Hop fraternity to generations of Real World housemates, it can best be described as a couch potato’s wonderland. But what happens…
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Lookin' Good as Hell: Lizzo Leads the Charge on June Magazine Covers!
Is summer here yet? As I find myself shopping for a lightweight-but-substantial spring coat (it’s currently 52 degrees in Chicago on this here May the 17th), clearly not. But our constant girl crush Lizzo is bringing the heat on not one, but two covers ripe for the season, starring on both Essence’s digital June issue…
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'To Be Young, Queer, and Black': Janelle Monae Gets Revealing with Lizzo for Them.
Coachella kicked off again on Friday with one of our favorite shapeshifters, Janelle Monae, in a headlining spot. In the past decade, the multitalented artist has been, at turns, the ArchAndroid, an Electric Lady, a no longer-Hidden Figure, and, most recently, a brilliant and Dirty Computer. “The beauty of art is that it reveals itself…
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Worship Her: Lizzo Makes Her Playboy Debut
She’s kind of a big deal, y’all. We’ve been singing the praises of Lizzo since we launched The Glow Up—even earlier this month, in fact. But now it seems the multi-hyphenate entertainer’s fandom is finally reaching critical mass as she continues to break down barriers. This week’s barriers? Joining the likes of Jorja Smith, Travis…