{"id":6267,"date":"2025-08-04T14:19:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=6267"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:57:11","slug":"lizzo-emerged-in-early-2025-with-an-announcement-of-her-fifth-album-love-in-real-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=6267","title":{"rendered":"Lizzo Emerged In Early 2025 With An Announcement Of Her Fifth Album, “Love In Real Life”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The singing, rapping, flute-playing polymath spent the three years since 2022\u2019s Special courting unexpected controversy and flirting in social media posts with quitting music entirely. After mostly laying low throughout the turbulence, Lizzo emerged in February 2025 with a rock-inspired new single and an announcement of her fifth album, both titled Love in Real Life. But first, a bit of raucous, freewheeling fun: With three days\u2019 notice in late June, she revealed a surprise 13-track mixtape whose artwork shows the singer grinning from ear to ear and flipping the double bird. The project came together just as spontaneously. \u201cI did this shit in three motherfucking days, bitch!\u201d she crows on \u201cDITTO,\u201d before adding: \u201cYou\u2019re welcome!\u201d<\/p>\n

From the jump, MY FACE HURTS FROM SMILING stands in stark contrast to the posi-vibes-only pop-rap that skyrocketed the 37-year-old singer into the mainstream circa 2019. \u201cBitch, I\u2019m mad! Bitch, I\u2019m pissed off!\u201d she bellows on intro \u201cCRASHOUT\u201d before letting loose a 35-minute barrage of blistering, boisterous trap music. But her formidable Southern rap skills come as no surprise to those who heard her unofficial TikTok remix of PLUTO and YKNIECE\u2019s 2025 viral hit \u201cWHIM WHAMIEE,\u201d which appears here as the rowdy \u201cYITTY ON YO TITTYS (FREESTYLE).\u201d<\/p>\n

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Over grimy, bouncy beats from the likes of Zaytoven and Tay Keith, Lizzo sounds like she\u2019s having more fun than she\u2019s had in years: firing shots at the haters, turning up with her girls, and interpolating trap throwbacks. (\u201cNEW MISTAKES\u201d is likely the only song of 2025 to interpolate both Boosie Badazz and \u201cF\u00fcr Elise.\u201d) She\u2019s joined by Doja Cat on \u201cSTILL CAN\u2019T FUH\u201d and SZA on \u201cIRL\u201d for a pair of bratty bad-bitch symposiums. \u201cI can\u2019t let no comment section ever fuck with my vibe,\u201d she spits on the latter duet. It\u2019s a lesson to take heed of for 2025: Why be mad when you can throw ass and touch grass instead?<\/p>\n

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The singing, rapping, flute-playing polymath spent the three years since 2022\u2019s Special courting unexpected controversy and flirting in social media posts with quitting music entirely. After mostly laying low throughout the turbulence, Lizzo emerged in February 2025 with a rock-inspired new single and an announcement of her fifth album, both titled Love in Real Life. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6271,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267\/revisions\/6271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}