Lizzo’s new song “Rumors” featuring Cardi B sparks mixed reviews. The song was released 2 weeks ago, reached the top 5 on charts, and created much hype around Lizzo’s return. Photo courtesy of Apple Music.
After taking a break from twitter due to haters and toxic people, she came back with quite a grand entrance to help advertise the new single. On August 9th, 2021 (more than a year since she had left twitter) she posted a tweet stating, “Hey y’all… heard I was trending, so I decided to come back on here… what I miss?” and changed her twitter name to ‘ALL THE RUMORS ARE TRUE’. This in turn made the internet go ballistic, and the hype surrounding the song was incredible.
After Lizzo’s “Cuz I Love You” album release in 2019, the ‘Truth Hurts’ singer went on almost a 3-year music-hiatus, while still remaining active on social media platform Tiktok. She also encourages women of all body shapes to truly be themselves and feel confident.
Melissa Viviane Jefferson, AKA ‘Lizzo’, has shown that it’s a journey (and not an easy one) to love yourself, but when you persist and ignore the haters, you can be who you truly are. She now stans as a body icon, a role model for girls of every color, and an idol for empowering women everywhere.
After taking a break from music for a while, she came back with a funky 90’s sounding [also explicit] single featuring Cardi B titled “Rumors”. We see Cardi about halfway through the music video, holding a scroll that one could assume contain the ‘rumors’ about her, while also showing off her adorable baby bump. The two work together to shut down rumors, while also showing that no matter what, they only live by one mindset: “slay or be slayed”.
The music video opens with a graphic that could remind one of the 5 Muses that sing in the Disney cartoon ‘Hercules’. The entire aesthetic of the video has a sort of ancient-Egyptian feel, which could be tied to the ‘women are goddesses’ movement. The entire video being filled with solely female choreographers, one can infer what Lizzo’s message is here.
Towards the end of the song, the lyric ‘Black people made rock and roll, yeah’ is followed with a small guitar and drums riff. This in which made many people of the African American community very thrilled to know Lizzo would give their community a louder voice. This is one part of the song that slightly breaks away from the repetitiveness for a second and gives us a unique sound while Lizzo, Cardi, and their ensemble jam out in style.
The song could be rated 8/10 because of its overall catchy, empowering, and fun energy. The only takeaway that one could complain about is that the song’s beat does get slightly repetitive, and the lyrics tend to run in circles. But looking at the bigger picture, Lizzo most likely wasn’t focused on the beat, and more about the message she was sending. ‘Rumors’ doesn’t only inspire one to be bolder and obliterate negativity, but also shows that for Lizzo, this is just the beginning, and no negativity is going to stop her anytime soon.
Zoe Rivera // Staff Writer
