- ♪ Baby how you feelin'? ♪
- (sings along) ♪ Feelin' good as hell ♪
- Is this what she is? 'Cause I love that.
- What?!
♪ (industrial intro) ♪
- ♪ I just took a DNA test ♪ ♪ Turns out... ♪
- Lizzo. Oh my god. Yeah. - ♪ I just took a.. ♪
- (raps along) ♪ DNA test ♪ ♪ Turns out... ♪
- (raps along) ♪ I'm 100% ♪ I love Lizzo so [bleep] much.
I swear to-- (groans) - I love this song so much!
- ♪ Yeah, I got boy problems ♪ ♪ That's the human in me ♪
♪ Bling, bling, then I solve 'em ♪
♪ That's the goddess in me ♪ - (raps along) ♪ You could've had
a bad bitch ♪ Dude, I [bleep] love...
(claps) this. - (raps along) ♪ You could've
had a bad bitch ♪ ♪ Noncommittal ♪
- This song gets me so hype. - I love her SO, SO much!
- This song took a little bit of time to grow on me.
It started playing. Everyone was like,
"No, this song's great." - When I first heard this song
in the movie Someone Great, that's how I got into her.
- ♪ Best friend sat me down in a... ♪
- Is she marrying herself? That's cool. That's tight.
- She's getting married to herself. She's saying she don't need nobody.
- Everything about Lizzo is just beautiful.
She's just such a beautiful soul in general.
- (sings along) ♪ Bom bom bi dom bi dum bum bay ♪
- ♪ You trying to break my heart? ♪ - (raps along) ♪ Oh, that
breaks my heart ♪ - ♪ That you thought
you ever had it ♪ ♪ No, you... ♪
- Ooh! Love these looks. - ♪ I mean, who would
wanna hide this? ♪ ♪ I will never ever, ever,
ever, ever be your side chick ♪ - Ohhh, thank you. (laughs)
- I love what she's about, and so I'm real excited
to check out more of her. So, I'm excited for this.
- That's the only song of hers that I know.
I'm really excited to listen to more of her,
'cause I feel like she's just a bad bitch.
- I found her when "Juice" first came out,
and then I was immediately obsessed. There was just no going back for me.
- ♪ Slow songs, they for skinny hoes ♪ ♪ Can't move all of this... ♪
- I heard this song recently. - ♪ I'm a thick bitch ♪
♪ I need tempo ♪ - Yes!
- (raps along) ♪ [Bleep] it up to the tempo ♪
She looks so good! - ♪ Look at my ass,
it's fitty-fitty-fat ♪ ♪ Kitty cat, kitty... ♪
- I just love everything she's all about.
- ♪ I like my water wet ♪ - When she said, "I like
my water wet," I was like, "I felt that."
- What a sick video. - Okay. YES! Booty, booty.
- She's just so confident. I love it.
- ♪ [Bleep] it up to the tempo ♪ - (raps along) ♪ What? ♪
♪ [Bleep] it up to the tempo ♪ = ♪ Slow songs, they for skinny hoes ♪
♪ [Bleep] it up to the tempo ♪ ♪ Missy! ♪
- ♪ Let's go, let's go ♪ ♪ All the fly girls... ♪
- She's still here? - Is that Missy?
I didn't realize Missy was in this song.
- Ah! (raps along) ♪ Kitty cat, kitty cat, purr ♪ (giggles)
- How did they know I'd be wearing this?
- ♪ Ice on my neck, like brrr ♪ - Missy Elliott looks so good.
- And then she does this song with Missy Elliott,
and everybody loves Missy Elliott. Oh my gosh.
- ♪ Look good, look good, look grrr ♪
♪ I'ma show y'all chicks how to drrr ♪
- ♪ Drrr, drrr ♪ I just like that "rrr" part.
- I just love how she just owns everything, and I love it.
I want a cape like that. - I remember when I heard that song
when it first dropped, and I was flipping out.
For Missy Elliott to wanna collaborate with you--
Missy is one of those artists. She's like THE artist.
So, it's like, you know... She's been around forever.
Well, not forever, but for as long as I've been alive.
- ♪ Mirror, mirror on the wall ♪ - This is what started it all for me!
- This is the song that set it off for everything.
- It's "Juice," right? It's called "Juice," I believe.
- ♪ I be drippin' so much sauce ♪ ♪ Got a bih lookin’ like ragù ♪
♪ Ooh, baby ♪ ♪ Lit up like a crystal ball ♪
- This one's super funky. I really like it.
- (sings along) ♪ That's how I roll ♪ ♪ If I'm shinin',
everybody gonna shine ♪ - See? She's like,
"If I'm shining, everybody's gonna shine."
She wants us to shine! - ♪ I'm like chardonnay,
get better over time ♪ - Go off. This aesthetic.
- ♪ ...I'm not the baddest?
Bitch, you lie ♪ - (squeals)
- (sings along) ♪ It ain't my fault that I'm out here getting loose ♪
- ♪ Gotta blame it on the Goose ♪ ♪ Gotta blame it on my juice... ♪
- She's so gorgeous and so confident and radiant.
- ♪ ...that I'm out here makin' news ♪ ♪ I'm the pudding... ♪
- She's so fine! - ♪ Gotta blame it on my juice ♪
♪ Ya-ya-ee, ya-ya-ee, ya-ya-ee, ya-ya♪ - Love it. She looks so cute!
- I just wanna keep going. It's so fun! Oh my god. I love it.
- I haven't take time out in general to listen to her other songs,
and I'm regretting that, 'cause I'm listening to all these
for the first time, and I'm so shook. I love them.
- ♪ Ay, boy, whatcha say, boy? ♪ ♪ You tryna play coy
like a Game Boy? ♪ - Yes, natural hair.
- I really like the beats to all of these too.
- ♪ Got a boy with degrees... ♪ - Just all of it.
You've gotta-- can't not bob your head to it.
- ♪ Sheesh, it's all Greek to me ♪ ♪ Got this boy speaking Spanish,
ay, Papi ♪ - (chuckles)
- ♪ I like... ♪ - (raps along) ♪ Big boys,
itty bitty boys ♪ - ♪ Mississippi boys ♪
- She's very inclusive. - ♪ Inner city boys ♪
- Oh my god! I love this! (chuckles)
- So, she likes everything. (laughs)
- (raps along) ♪ I like a big beard ♪ ♪ I like a clean face ♪
♪ I don't discriminate ♪ ♪ Come and get a taste ♪
♪ From the playboys to the gay boys ♪
♪ Go and slay, boys ♪ - Ahhh!
- ♪ You my fave boys ♪ - I think I found my new fa--
that was an ass! (laughs) That was an area.
- Yes, girl! - She's just so comfortable
in her body. - ♪ Oh, I want it bad ♪
♪ I heard you a... ♪ - Freak me, Lizzo!
- ♪ That's right ♪ ♪ What's two plus two? ♪
- I love it. I love her. I keep saying it,
but I absolutely love her so much. - She gave you a nude scene
from the jump, which a lot of artists
are afraid to do, because they wanna save that
for, you know, the views and the drama of it all.
But she was like, "I don't give a [bleep].
This is me. Here I go, ladies."
- ♪ Woo child, tired of the bullshit ♪ - Yes!
- ♪ Go on, dust your shoulders off ♪ - (raps along) ♪ Keep it moving ♪
- ♪ Yes, Lord... ♪ - Yeah! This is a classic.
- This song put her on the map before "Juice," 'cause this is
when people started to get familiar with her.
- ♪ Come now, come dry your eyes ♪ ♪ You know you a star ♪
♪ You can touch the sky ♪ - (gasps) Ah! Ahh!
- ♪ If you need advice, let me simplify ♪
- (sings along) ♪ If he don't love you anymore ♪
- ♪ Just walk your fine ass out the door ♪
- Oh my god! - ♪ I do my hair toss ♪
♪ Check my nails ♪ ♪ Baby how you feelin'? ♪
- (sings along) ♪ Feelin' good as hell ♪
- Is this what she is? 'Cause I love that.
- (sings along) ♪ Feelin' good as hell ♪
- She makes music for everybody, and I think that's so cool.
- Oh, I love her!
Boys are stupid sometimes. (chuckles) And sometimes
I need Lizzo to be like, "It's okay. You're amazing."
And I'm like, "Yes, girl. I am. Thank you. You're amazing."
- There's a whole culture when it comes to hair salons,
especially as a black woman. It's a whole thing,
getting your hair done. You befriend everyone
who's next to you, and everyone's giving
each other advice. So, this definitely embodied
the experience of a black woman getting her hair done.
- Her music is really about you should feel good as hell,
you know, about yourself. And I think that's really cool,
especially, you know, with Instagram being
such a massive thing and everyone, you know,
comparing themselves to others. It's cool to look inside
and be like, "I'm okay too." - (FBE) So, we have another video
to show you in a second, but that was the rapper
and singer Lizzo, who has recently been
climbing the music charts. - (clapping) Praise Lizzo!
- (FBE) So next, we wanted to show you a viral video
of her performance from the BET Awards
earlier this year in June. - (gasps) I've seen it.
Oh my god. I loved it. - This performance threw me for a loop.
- ♪ You can tell your friend... ♪ - (raps along) “Shoot your shot”
when you see him ♪ This outfit.
- I saw this all over Facebook, and then one day, I was like,
"Okay I need to watch this finally." - ♪ Why're men great till they
gotta be great? ♪ ♪ Don't text me ♪
♪ Tell it straight to my face ♪ - Oh, yes!
- You have all types of dancers on the stage with her.
- ♪ Shampoo press, get you out of my hair ♪
♪ Fresh photos with the bomb lighting ♪
♪ New man on the Minnesota Vikings ♪ - Go off. What a great feeling.
How dope for her. - You can see how into it
everyone in the audience is. - She's such a great performer.
♪ (flute playing) ♪ - Whaat?!
- (laughs) Oh, [bleep]!
- Yes, bitch! - I love that she plays the flute.
When I first watched it, I didn't expect that.
- (laughs) That's sick. - (raps along) ♪ Bitch! ♪
I love that part! - Amazing.
- ♪ Ay, ay, ay ♪ - Rihanna.
- Rihanna? Ah! - I think this is the most
I've ever smiled for any of the videos I did.
- Yeah! Everybody better be standing up right now.
- Dude. I love-- I want to see her live now.
- The [bleep] flute, bitch. I've seen her do that live.
That is for real. - I swoon over very few people,
but Lizzo is one that just makes my heart so warm.
And I'm so in love with her. - (FBE) So, Lizzo has been
blowing up this past year with her music rising
on the Billboard charts, performing at events
like Coachella and Glastonbury and being invited on shows
such as Jimmy Kimmel, the Ellen Show,
and RuPaul's Drag Race. - I'm just so happy for her.
She's been working her ass off for the last 10 years,
and people are just now starting to take notice of her.
And I think that's really cool, 'cause you're finally seeing
your work pay off. - (FBE) So, with so many new artists
trying to make it into the industry, what do you think it is
about Lizzo that's been able to make her stand out and kind of
rise up in the music business like this?
- I think that's just the energy she brings.
She's owning everything she's doing, and all these people are like,
"Yes, I could relate to her so much." - She has a really good level
of self-love right now, and she channels into her music,
and she wants other people to feel that too.
- She's such a relatable person, and then all her music
is just so good too. So it's like, for you to write
all this music and be somebody that I feel outside of a studio
I could hang out with and we'd just have a blast,
I'm like, that just makes me wanna follow everything you're doing.
- People, they heard her music, and it's just so blunt and direct,
but it's-- you can tell it's very like personal
and emotional too. You also don't see
really that many artists who are fat.
It's just a fact. The last fat person I can remember
that blew up-- and they weren't that fat-- was Adele.
It's been so great to see, like, the past few years,
how it's been getting slightly better, and I'm seeing more representation,
more people who look like me. - (FBE) So, Lizzo reportedly
started getting involved with singing and rapping as early as 14 years old,
and she eventually signed with Atlantic Records in 2016,
releasing her first studio album a year later.
In 2017, she released the song "Truth Hurts," which was
the first video we watched, but it became what some would call
a viral sleeper hit and began to gain more traction
after the release of her 2019 album,
"Cuz I Love You." - Oh, wow. I heard "Truth Hurts"
in a movie, and that's where I was like, "Oh, this song's
really cute," and then I looked it up.
But I didn't-- I thought it was a new song.
- (FBE) Since then, "Truth Hurts" has become Lizzo's first song
to become a top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.
And the music video has amassed over 60 million views
as of recording this episode. So, why do you think it took her
over two years for this song and for Lizzo to get the attention
they have now? - You know what's funny
is I asked myself the same question,
'cause the first Lizzo song I heard was "Good as Hell,"
and that was probably earlier this year.
And I didn't know that was from even earlier.
- I was like,"This is such a great song.
Where has this artist been?" - Society now is ready
for artists like her. Timing is everything,
and this is her time. - Sometimes, it just takes time.
Some of the best artists that you've seen rise
have taken a while to rise. When Gaga released "Just Dance,"
she was touring that for years-- a year and a half
before it really popped off. It goes to show you
that you might be the finest musician out there and release a fire track,
but maybe it won't be until you release your second album
that people really start to go back and realize, "Oh, this bitch
has been lit from the jump." - So much music is released
all the time now, whether it's on streaming services
or places like SoundCloud, where a lot of artists are starting
to just come out, and it's making the industry
a lot more saturated, so it's a little bit hard
to stand out now. So, it makes sense that it
took her a little while before it blew up organically.
You can put out all of your genuineness
and hope for the best, but you also have to be
a little bit patient. And I feel like that's what she did,
and it's paid off. And now, she's just swimming in cash.
- (FBE) So, Lizzo has talked about how she's struggled
with body issues since an early age
and has since become an advocate for body positivity and self-love
while making diversity the focus of her music
in regards to one's body, sexuality, race, and more.
- Ah, that's the thing. And that's one of the reasons
that I was drawn into it. - (FBE) What are your thoughts
on how Lizzo uses her love for music and her platform
to kind of discuss these more sensitive topics like this?
- I think that's so important when you have a platform that big
to become an activist for whatever it is
that you're passionate about. I have a lot of respect for her
for bringing together her activism and her advocacy with her music.
- It's needed. I think it's extremely important,
and I think that she is a smart human being
and a woke bitch for doing so. You need to use your platform
for the betterment of everybody. And if you speak positivity
like you've been doing and just the hope of, you know,
a happy future, I guess, people will listen
and people will follow. - I really liked her music,
but when I found out about-- You know, I watched her video.
I was like, "Oh, this is what she looks like,"
which was not really what I was expecting.
And her message and just what she's all about,
it made me really, really wanna check her out way more.
When I was in middle school and high school,
I was afraid of being associated with the word "fat,"
'cause you didn't see anybody who was fat on TV or in music.
And so, it's just amazing seeing someone who is my size
being successful. - (FBE) So finally, after listening
to some of her music and learning a little bit more
about Lizzo as an artist, what do you think is next for her?
- Oh my god. I want at least four more hit albums.
- She's gonna be that artist that has, like, Lizzo
featuring Beyonce, and I'm ready for that one.
When Beyonce is a feature on hers, that-- oh, god. I just--
Musically, she is about to kill everything.
- She's just gonna continue to put out great music.
I know that she wanted to be Ursula in the Little Mermaid.
I could see Lizzo in anything, and it would make me happy.
- She can only go up from here really. This album was super good.
I hear people talk about it non-stop. As long as she continues
to do her thing and continues to just create music
that she really enjoys and has a passion for,
but also continues her message, the message that makes her Lizzo,
she can go nowhere but up.
- Thanks for watching this episode of College Kids React.
Shoutout to Jake Ball. - What's your favorite Lizzo song?
Let us know in the comments. - Hope your day is good as hell.
Bye, everyone. - Hey, everyone. Lauren,
producer here at FBE. Thank you so much
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