Lizzo basically represents toxic positivity. Hi, welcome to me and talking about whatever
I want. Today, I'm going to be talking about Lizzo. So first off, I want to do
a little comment shout out from yesterday's video. This one goes out to Midnight CHR,
who says, "I was surprised when I saw this video. I thought I had died, but I revived
myself so I could watch this. It was worth it." Honestly, if you don't revive yourself to watch
my videos from the dead, then are you a real fan? But all jokes aside, I want to say, thank you so
much for the support on that last video. I think I got like 3,000 subscribers in that one day that
I posted it, which is more than I expected. I actually like uploading to the second channel,
because I feel like it's more like a one-on-one conversation. It's like a lot more laid back.
No, actually I'm probably still going to get hate on this video. And that is because we are talking
about none other than the incomparable Lizzo. Now, when you bring up Lizzo on the internet,
the conversation tends to immediately go in a certain direction. And while I can understand why,
I kind of want to reel this back away from that and talk about her music for a second.
Lizzo's voice is incredible. And if you listen to Truth Hurts on the radio and you think you
know what I mean, trust me, Truth Hurts is probably one of her least interesting songs.
Do yourself a favor and find a performance of Cuz I Love You. That lady can sing.
Another thing I really like about Lizzo is her lyrics. You know, it's not the typical pop lyrics
of, oh, I love you, but you don't love me. So, guess I'm going to be sad forever. Somebody put
that to a beat. I literally deserve the number one spot on billboard. She has songs about all
kinds of things. Like self-love, confidence. She has one song about exercise, like, literally
about exercise. Who writes calisthenics into with their song, other than Lizzo.
I have a lot of respect for a lot of the things that she does. However, that's pretty much all
the good things I have to say about her. The thing about Lizzo is like, it's illegal to
criticize her basically, because you get instantly labeled as, insert whatever label they choose that
time. And I think because of this, she's been put on this untouchable pedestal, which makes
it really difficult to have a conversation about things that might actually be an issue.
For example, she straight up stole Truth Hurts. I think it's her most popular song
and the most popular line in that song, it goes like, I just took a DNA test, turns out
I'm 100% that B. I'm not going to say the word because we respect women in this household.
And the thing is like, that was Lizzo's trademark line. The moment everyone heard
that they were like, okay, this lady means business. It was so iconic that she tried
to trademark it so she could sell it on Merch, but that turned out to be a problem, because
she didn't come up with it. These two random guys, Jeremiah and Justin Raisen or something,
they claimed that they wrote a significant portion of that song and Lizzo refused to credit them.
And I don't think that's true, personally. I feel like they were just trying to get some money,
because Lizzo threatened to sue them over saying that. So she's pretty confident that that's not
the case. However, one of the things that they brought up was that that iconic, I just took a
DNA test, line wasn't even Lizzo's but was from a meme. So Lizzo refused to give them their
songwriting credit, which they didn't deserve. But magically, after their accusations, she wound
up giving credit to the original person who came up with that line. Mina Lioness ... No, that's
too hard to say. So the issue with that is like, it's really disingenuous, right? Like
you're not going to give songwriting credit to somebody who's songwriting lyric you took until
you're being accused by somebody else of stealing. She was just being super shady about it. She was
like, I saw it in the meme, but I later learned that a tweet inspired that meme. First of all,
that's a phrase that somebody came up ... I don't know why I'm explaining it, like you
don't know why it's a problem. It's a problem. The thing is too, Mina Lioness had tried to bring up
the fact that Lizzo completely took her tweet and put it in her song and profited off of it.
But Lizzo had initially said she didn't see it. So it's all starting to get really confusing,
unless you consider the fact that she's a liar. And the way Lizzo refused to give any room for
this smaller artists to express herself is really reminiscent of the time Lizzo called out her Uber
driver for eating her food or something. But like, you as a celebrity, cannot be putting smaller
people like that on blast when they don't have a platform to defend themselves. That's pretty
much instantly going to make everyone dislike you. But anyway, in the end, Lizzo pretty much escaped
that situation with her reputation still intact. I don't think there was a Lizzo hate wave after
that, everyone was pretty much fine. Because let's be honest, nobody cares about artist
credit to begin with except artists. But then, but then, but then, but then, but then Lizzo
basically made sure that everyone disliked her by doing that thing at the basketball game.
Now, if you don't know about that thing at the basketball game, I'm really reluctant to insert
a picture of that thing at the basketball game. Basically you've either seen it or you haven't.
Lizzo was at a basketball game and she was just minding her own business in this black dress.
Well, the camera pans over to her and she stands up and reveals that this dress, it was more along
the lines of something you would expect to see in ... Basically, that dress left little to the
imagination. And while she was in full view of the camera, she began her legendary twerking.
So honestly it was embarrassing for her, mostly because nobody wanted to see that. And let's say
we did want to see that at a basketball game for some reason, there were children there. So like,
what was she thinking? It's super weird. So of course, Twitter went off because
that's what Twitter does. There were so many memes about what happened. So many that I just,
I don't feel like putting even one in. But at the same time, as weird of a situation as that was, it
was still very much Lizzo, right? Who else would have the confidence, I guess, to start twerking
on camera at a basketball game in a cutaway dress? But is that really confidence? That's kind of what
I'm getting at in this video. In fact, she kind of proved this point because she did a
live stream after that, where she was trying to talk about how unaffected she was. But while I
was watching a recap of that live stream, that's when it finally dawned on me, the
thing I'd started seeing behind the Lizzo mask. She is not confident at all. Everything about her
image is fake. Now, obviously that's the case with any singer. I remember Dr. Phil had said something
like K-pop stars are manufactured and then K-pop Twitter was getting extremely angry with Dr. Phil.
Actually, should I make a video about that? I feel like I should. Let me know if I should make a
video about whether or not Jimin is manufactured. So it's not really Lizzo's fault that her whole
thing is fake. But the thing is, she seems to really believe it. In this live stream, for
example, where she was trying to show us how she didn't care that Twitter did not like her little
basketball game stunt, she started showing off her house. She showed the view from her window. And
that's just not the mark of a confident person. If you have to use material possessions to show
that you're emotionally secure, you're just not. That's kind of how it goes.
And the thing is too, she kept repeating that she didn't care. She didn't care. She didn't care. And
even a first grader knows, the more times you repeat that you're not affected by something,
that's a safe bet that that's definitely affecting you. So I'm not going to say
that that ruined her music because that's a really dramatic way of putting it. But
it did kind of take away some of the initial charm that drew me to her in the first place.
Her lyrics are shallow. If we have somebody who's obviously not that confident blasting
forward this message and being turned into like this beacon of confidence and positivity ... Lizzo
basically represents toxic positivity, which I didn't know was a thing until I really started
thinking about her whole situation. But looking at the puzzle pieces is definitely a thing.
Sometimes it's okay to say things affected you. Sometimes it's okay to say, hey, everyone was
flaming me on Twitter really hard, and that made me feel really, really bad. Honestly,
her music started to depress me when I started to think about the discrepancy between how Lizzo
acts and how she really is. It's probably really, really, really hard to put up that
front 24 seven. And I think supporting that and kind of hyping her up like yes, positivity queen,
that's maybe not the best course of action. The thing about Lizzo is like, I feel like
she doesn't realize that she is as good as she says she is in her songs. She's kind of flexing
the wrong way. I don't really care how pretty your houses or how rich you are or how many number one
Billboard spots you have. I mean, Justin Bieber has showed us how easy it is to get the number one
spot on Billboard ... Oh wait, he didn't get it. But there are things about Lizzo that I admire.
For example, she has massive support. Just the network of people who support everything she does
and who are always there with positivity under everything she puts out. That, to me, is very
admirable. That's something you should be flexing, in my opinion, more so than you have a nice house.
If that's not enough, she's super talented. Really, we should be talking
about her performance in Cuz I Love You. Have I mentioned that you need to listen to Cuz I
Love You because her performance in Cuz I Love You is really good. I mean, this lady can play
the flute and twerk at the same time. If that is not enough to tell you that she is changing
the music industry, I don't know what is. I don't want somebody to preach a message to
me that they haven't fully learned for themselves. I'd be much more interested in Lizzo's journey to
become a more confident person than her label or her fans or whoever it is telling her, hey,
you have to be this positive person, 24 seven. Because then I feel like there's room for everyone
to grow, versus Lizzo repeatedly just running into the wrath of Twitter because she doesn't
really conduct herself in a way that a confident person would. The thing is, people are relentless
on the internet. And that is why she's so consistently targeted because she is so insecure.
Anyway, I just really felt like saying everything I just said in this video,
because I feel like we're not allowed to say it. You know, if you criticize her at all,
people will say you're body shaming, or you hate women, or you just don't want to see someone
like Lizzo succeed. And it's like, I pretty much am half a song away from being a Lizzo
stan. It's just all this fakeness and toxicity and the call outs, I really can't get behind.
So yeah, in this video, I just wanted to prove you can criticize her without comparing her to
Adele. That's the thing everyone always does. Or without making it about how she looks. I'm more
so criticizing the message behind it, because I feel like as long as we're making her such
an untouchable pillar, she's really never going to be able to reach the message that she herself
is trying to spread to everybody else. But ultimately, in conclusion, who cares?