Lizzo Pivots For First LP In Four Years

Lizzo has long teased her next album under the moniker Love in Real Life, but the artist has pivoted to an apparently separate new 12-song project dubbed Bitch, which will be released June 5 through Nice Life/Atlantic. The title track will be out Friday (May 1) and follows the March release of lead single “Don’t Make Me Love U.”

As for “Bitch,” it interpolates Meredith Brooks’ 1997 hit of the same name. “Reclaiming the word Bitch is power,” Lizzo says. “it’s taking a label once used to diminish women and turning it into a declaration of confidence and unapologetic self-love. So many incredible women in music have used the word for positivity like Meredith Brooks and Missy Elliot. It was only fitting to name my album Bitch because it has become my favorite word when using it on my own terms and because I am 100% that bitch!”

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The artist appeared on Saturday Night Live in April 2025 ahead of the planned release of Love in Real Life, but it has yet to see the light of day. It was intended to be the follow-up to 2022’s Special, which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. More recently, she staged residencies at the Blue Note New York and Los Angeles where she showed off her flute skills in intimate settings and played to a huge crowd in early March at the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo.

Lizzo has also penned her debut children’s book, the flute-themed Lil Lizzo Meets Sasha B. Flootin’. The project is illustrated by Mark Pett and is due Sept. 8 from Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. Its story centers around “a bubbly little girl who just wants to belong” in her adventures with “a smart and brassy flute who can’t find her tune.”

Based on Lizzo’s own experiences as a young person, their adventures take them to the ocean, outer space and the jungle. The book will include a QR code unlocking an original Lizzo song written especially for Lil Lizzo Meets Sasha B. Flootin’.

She’ll also portray legendary musician Sister Rosetta Tharpein the upcoming film Rosetta from Amazon MGM Studios.

Here is the track list for Bitch:

“A Toast”
“Happy 2 Be”
“Don’t Make Me Love U”
“Bitch”
“She Stole My Man”
“Whose Hair Is This”
“Little Black Cat”
“Sexy Ladies”
“That GRRRL” 
“Too Nice”
“Like a Crime”
“Goodmorning!”

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