Lizzo Says She Might Be One of the ‘Most Misunderstood’ Public Figures: ‘People Tone-Police Me’
"They think I'm always complaining or I'm always angry or I'm always shouting," Lizzo tells Gayle King on Monday's CBS Mornings in exclusive preview.
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Lizzo is no stranger to making headlines, whether they’re about her chart-topping songs or her outspoken social media presence or lawsuit allegations from her former dancers. But even though she’s been in the public eye since her 2019 commercial breakthrough, Lizzo says there’s a “long list” of misconceptions out there about her.
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The hitmaking singer/rapper sits down with Gayle King for a new interview on Monday’s CBS Mornings, which airs at 7 a.m. on CBS, and Billboard has an exclusive preview from the chat, when King asks what the public gets wrong or doesn’t understand about her.
“I think there’s a long list,” she tells King with a laugh. “I think I might be one of the most misunderstood. I think people don’t understand that I’m always trying to help. I think people tone-police me a little bit and they think … I’m always complaining or I’m always angry or I’m always shouting. And I’m like, ‘No, I’m talking very calmly and everything that I’m talking about is meant to be helpful. And I think that people misunderstand that about me a lot.”
When Lizzo mentions being “tone-policed,” she’s referring to how people are receiving her versus what she’s intending to communicate.
“They’ll be like, ‘Here comes Lizzo complaining again,'” she says. “I’m like, I’m not complaining! I’m just shining a light. But once I realize that that’s how people are gonna take it, I’ve just decided to stop.”
But she won’t stop speaking out — she’s just choosing a different venue to share her perspective. “I’m like, ‘Y’all not gonna take it the way I want you to take it’ — so let me just put it in the music.”
And that music is coming soon: Earlier this week, Lizzo announced that her fifth studio album, titled Bitch, will arrive June 5 via Nice Life/Atlantic.
