Pop star Lizzo has confessed she felt “stressed and really sad” after her new album Bitch failed to crack the top charts in both the US and the UK.
Lizzo felt “stressed and really sad” after her new album Bitch failed to chart.
The 38-year-old pop star released her fifth record on June 5 but Bitch failed to make it into the Billboard 200 chart in the US and the top 100 in the UK Albums Chart – and Lizzo has admitted she felt troubled by the “soul-crushing” performance after her previous chart successes.
During an appearance on the Swiftologist podcast, Lizzo explained: “I think right now, dropping the album, I took it to heart. Really, really heavily .. I hurt my own feelings and I was really stressed and I was really sad for a few days because I was like: ‘Wait a minute, this is some of my best stuff’.
“I had to come to terms with the fact that not only is the music industry different in the last three years – and we need to talk about that, we need to talk about the radio aspect that I got my a** chewed out for but it’s happening and it’s true.
“But also my relationship and my connection musically with the world is different. And I think I had to mourn that … “
Lizzo’s last album, Special, reached number two on the Billboard 200 chart in 2022 while her previous effort, 2019’s Cuz I Love You, made it to number six.
She added: “I didn’t think it would be crazy, but I also didn’t think it would be this [bad] … and there was like 24 hours of my life where I based by success on and my worth on a number and I think that was soul-crushing. “
The singer went on to reveal she was supported by fellow artist SZA – real name Solana Rowe – after Bitch was released. She said: “Thank God for Solana, she called me and was like: ‘You’re on my mind.’
“I was like: ‘Am I a failure?’ and she was like: ‘Oh my god, no!’ – she’s so sweet.”
I like meditated and I prayed on it and I was like: ‘This is why I don’t judge myself on my success or my impact on numbers. This is why I don’t do that because it’s soul-crushing if you do.”
