It’s dangerous bitch o’clock: the trailer for HBO’s “Love, Lizzo” has dropped. The doc presents perception into the life, profession, and work ethic of the inimitable singer-rapper as by no means seen earlier than. “It took a lot arduous work to get to the place I’m right this moment,” the “Fact Hurts” singer, born Melissa Viviane Jefferson, displays. “However I discovered my voice. Now when folks see me on stage, they see themselves.”
“Love, Lizzo,” incorporates three yr’s price of footage collected in the course of the Cuz I Love You world tour in addition to the recording of her fourth studio album “Particular,” launched this July. “This intimate documentary permits the multi-platinum artist to get candid about physique positivity, self-love, and recognizing Black ladies for his or her contributions,” the movie’s synopsis particulars. “Each infrequently, an artist modifications not solely music, however tradition as properly. Lizzo has performed each. That is the journey of a trailblazing celebrity who has turn out to be the motion the world desperately wanted simply by being herself.”
With archival house movies in addition to behind the scenes footage, the doc chronicles Lizzo’s journey from her beginnings as a classically skilled flutist from Houston to a chart-topping world star.
The trailer sees Lizzo recounting the discrimination she confronted as a nascent artist attempting to interrupt into the trade. “No person was attempting to signal a fats, Black woman that rapped, sang, and performed the flute,” she explains. Regardless of these hindrances, it was her craft – and Lizzo’s timeless devotion to it – that at all times acted as her lodestar. “It doesn’t matter what a part of my story you are available in at, I’m at all times chasing the music,” she emphasizes. “Y’all do not know how shut I used to be to this not being a factor.”
Amongst different awards, Lizzo has three Grammys to her identify: Finest City Up to date Album for “Cuz I Love You,” Finest Solo Pop Efficiency for “Fact Hurts,” and Finest Conventional R&B Efficiency for “Jermone.” As an actress, Lizzo has additionally appeared in “Hustlers,” Lorene Scafaria’s 2019 crime drama about strippers who con their Wall Road clientele.
“Love, Lizzo” might be out there on HBO Max November 24.
