chiliam Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 start the album and The sign is such a bop from the very 1st line, such a great open track, the energy is there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rihannabiggestfan Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 (edited) NNN at I Love You *****. Not the vocal styling I was expecting on that one based on the lyrics/title, I guess it's like Chloe on Have Mercy Edited July 15, 2022 by rihannabiggestfan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QueenofCopyPaste Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 Special is the "Unpretty" of our times. Perfect for a fall single Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlaredoperez Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 (edited) Standouts: -The sign: very cute opener, I enjoy it a lot -ADT: The obvious lead and an absolute smash. -2 Be Loved: A smash waiting to happen. -Special: At first I was a bit tired of these self love anthems but this is really great. Great hook and vocals. Production is excellent. Fall single please. -Everybody's Gay: I imagine the greek chanteuse from Hercules singing this while being in utopia. It's so sultry and good! I definitely see single potential. -Birthday Girl: This is a ******* bop. I can see this being a single. Melody is very good, not everything needs to be about lyrics. -Naked: Excellent production. Love the message and the vocal delivery. Edited July 15, 2022 by mlaredoperez Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hallucinate Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 2 be loved deserves to be a SMASH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanes Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 This is cute so far. Everybody's Gay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nefertiti0 Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 Lizzo performed "About Damn Time," "Good as Hell," "Juice," "Truth Hurts" and "Special" during iHeartRadio Album Release Party and talked about Special tracks: Track 1: The Sign "From the first line of this song it's gonna let you know where I've been," revealed Lizzo. "I thought it was a great way to set the tone for this album because people are gonna be like "Lizzo, it's been three years." Okay, so let me tell you what the f--k I've been up to and let me tell you how I've been. It's like you called me and I'm like "Hi, motherf***er!" I love this song so much." Track 3: Grrls "I'm just so proud of this song, it's a Beastie Boys sample. This song is based on a true story." Lizzo then went on to tell the story of having to fight a girl who stole her phone at the club, which is what her 2016 song "Phone" is about. She continued, "So this song is kind of an ode to that fighting spirit. I feel like old school fans are really gonna appreciate it." Track 4: 2 Be Loved "This song is a dream for me because I got to work with the legendary Max Martin. I've always been like what would a Max Martin/Lizzo song even sound like?" she said, and luckily we got to find out. "I met him in the studio and I was like, "Let me let this legend cook. Let me watch him cook." He really pushed me in the best way and I pushed myself as a songwriter and as a vocal performer and I'm so proud of this song. I feel like it's an actual masterpiece! It's part two to "Cuz I Love You," really." Track 5: I Love You B**ch When asked what the song was about Lizzo joked, "I wrote it about you, JoJo. You and that little ponytail," referencing the host's choice of hairstyle for the night. "This song is so funny. It came from Cardi B, so me and Cardi B dropped "Rumors" and after we dropped it, she was like, "I want a love song from Lizzo next." And I was like if I wrote a love song I would be like what? "I love you, b***h." This song is about everybody in my life. I wanted to write a universal love song...This is truly one of the most universal love songs of all time. I'm gonna say it right now: the greatest love song of all time! You better play this for your mee-maw," she laughed. Track 7: Break Up Twice "First off, shout out to Mark Ronson, who produced this. I mean, talk about another legendary person," Lizzo said. "This came to me so easily because I had a barbecue at my house and I brought somebody. A romantic interest and my friends... One of my friends had my back and she was like "If you hurt my friend I'm gonna slash your motherf***in tires!" And I thought that's the purest form of love! If you don't got a friend that will slash an ex's tires for you, do you have friends?" Lizzo laughed before continuing, "More than that, this song is about the faith that I had in us, in my relationship with this person. In love! But I'm not gonna do it more than once, b***h!" Track 8: Everybody's Gay This track was introduced with some major hype from JoJo. "If I had to describe it... a little bit of Rick James, a little bit of Prince. Maybe some Diana Ross with a whole lot of Lizzo," JoJo said excitedly. Lizzo went on to explain the meaning behind the song: "'Everybody's Gay' was just me and my musician friends nerding out. I wanted to write a song that was a fantasy. I wanted to write a song about going out to a costume party and in your costume, you get to take your mask off. That mask of the person that's protecting our true selves. That mask that the real is hiding behind. You can take off because everybody's welcome here! You are accepted as you are. This is the come-as-you-are record." Track 9: Naked "Anybody who has seen my on social media has seen my a**," Lizzo said. "You all watch me discover the power in owning my beauty, fully clothed, or in the nude, in a big very public open way and it has brought me to this place of so much inner confidence and strength and self-love and I'm very proud of it." She continued by explaining how that relates to the song, "But now, when I sit this a*** on you, can you embrace it? This song is for all of my exhibitionists and my future exhibitionists. I invite you to put on a silk robe, some silky panties... Pour yourself a glass of wine and do yourself a favor to this song right here." Track 10: Birthday Girl "I'm so excited about this one lowkey. Because highkey I was like "I don't know if I should do a birthday song." We got Stevie Wonder. We got 50 Cent! But when I was writing this song, I freestyled "Is it your birthday girl? Cause you lookin' like a present." And it turned into something so much bigger because I am a birthday b***h! Like, I love celebrating birthdays. Mostly, I love celebrating other people's birthdays. So this is a birthday song and a love letter to all of my friends that we celebrate our birthdays every year in the biggest and best way. Because when you been through the most, you gotta do the most. You feel me?" Track 11: If You Love Me Lizzo introduced this one by just singing the chorus. "Oh this little track right here?" she laughed. It was "the first song I wrote for this album. It's a beautiful love song. I get on stage at my shows and I tell people in my audience, I say "Thank you so much for supporting me financially, emotionally, physically you're standing here supporting me. Thank you! I am a fat, black woman from Houston, Texas. I wasn't taught that I would make it this far. And through your support I have and I wanna say thank you. And most importantly, when you see somebody who looks like me, keep that same energy! Because fat, black women in society and culture have not been treated with respect. The respect we deserve." And so i try to pay it forward every night on stage...cause if you love me, you love all of me. All of my sisters. All of my big girls. So this song is basically a love letter to the world. Track 12: Coldplay "So there was a big mystery around this on the internet," Lizzo explained. "Mostly when people saw the tracklisting they were like, "Coldplay?" It's like always question mark, exclamation point. They don't know what the f**k 'bout to happen. Basically, who didn't grow up listening to Coldplay? Incredible band, a huge influence on my life. One day I was in the studio. I was in with Ricky Reed, who is my longtime collaborator, and I was sitting in the booth with him and he just played this piano loop. I had just gone on a trip to Tulum with somebody and I was like I'm gonna sit on this bench and I'm just gonna talk about it. And I talked. No melody, no rhythm, no freestyling on this piano loop and I told this 45-minute story. It's a deeply personal song I'm sharing. I mean, all my songs are f***n personal but this is vulnerable cause I don't talk about people that I like that often. This song is about that moment we were sitting on the roof and I was looking at the stars and I was singing "Yellow" by Coldplay and I was crying because life is so beautiful and love is waiting for you when you're ready for it. And I guess I'm ready." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.O.A.D.S. Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 The album is cute but her music is so cheesy. I can't with her sometimes and a whole album of it? Chile. About Damn Time, If You Love, Everybody is Gay, Break Up Twice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
selena_lavigne Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 (edited) gets better every listen. Edited July 15, 2022 by selena_lavigne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanes Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 The Sign, About Damn Time, 2 Be Loved (Am I Ready) & Everybody's Gay are the best songs. Cute album overall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goofy Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 I enjoyed it! Love Lizzo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nefertiti0 Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 Lizzo for Spotify Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onewillowsilk Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 Some cute songs but a lot of these songs are really corny/cheesy. You don't need an entire album filled with self-love anthems because after 2/3 songs, it becomes overdone. You think surely, there's more a 34 year-old black woman could say about herself but by the end of the album, you realize, apparently not. Hope the album performs well and she doesn't flip out on critics if they don't love her album this time around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.O.A.D.S. Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 The start of 2 Be Loved reminds me of What the Hell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djcalpal Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 2 Be Loved is a blockbuster smash hit mama! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xperience30 Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 My expectations were high I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nefertiti0 Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 Max Martin and ILYA are credited as background vocals on 2 Be Loved (Am I Ready) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Rih Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 Yeah Special needs to be the fall/winter single, it could be a huge hit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smoore95GAGA Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 Am I the only one that doesn’t love Special the song? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solgayleo Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 2 Be Loved has to be the next single. The other Max Martin songs are pretty meh, but they really nailed the chorus on this one. Agree that the self love shtick gets very tired by the end of the album. The songs are fun tho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FameFatale Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 Special is such a stand out. Idk what she was thinking on the other tracks. The production is good but the lyrics on this album are… not it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeavyMetalAura Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 Everybody’s Gay sounded like it hit harder in the snippet but it’s still great. Sounds very MJ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinister Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 2 Be Loved is on New Music Friday so I’m assuming it is the next single Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nefertiti0 Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 On 5/20/2022 at 8:16 PM, Winged said: Rumours or ADT Purple remix ? About Damn Time (Purple Disco Machine Remix) is bonus track for Japanese edition and this CD will be released on August 31. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katamari Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 Her lyrics are cringy yes but so we’re Katy’s which Atrl stanned i thought if you love me would sound more like a soul track than a late 90s pop rock r&b track Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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