![]() ![]() ![]() She went on to study music performance at the University of Houston before moving to Minneapolis, where she spent some of the most formative years of her early career. “And I’m so grateful I did, but it was by the skin of my teeth.” “So I just made the decision to keep going as an artist,” Lizzo recalls. I said, ‘If I stop making music now, nobody would fucking care.’ ” Her producer showed up at her apartment to give her a pep talk, and to tell her that even if her music didn’t feel important to the world, at least it was important to the two of them. “A tree was falling in the forest and not making a sound, you know? I was crying in my room all day. “I just felt like I was throwing music into the world and not even making a splash,” she recounts during a rare (and brief ) break from her current tour. She was tired of putting her blood, sweat, and literal tears into music most people would never hear. ![]() Back in 2017, on the day she dropped her now-massive sleeper hit “Truth Hurts,” Lizzo felt so demoralized, both by the industry and by life in general, that she texted the song’s producer to say she was thinking about quitting. It seems unfathomable now, and yet that world very nearly existed. In that world, most of us wouldn’t know the unadulterated joy of watching the singer-rapper- flutist extraordinaire twerk onstage while casually slaying a flute solo. In 2019, it’s hard to imagine a world in which Lizzo is not a musical force, a world in which bops like “Juice” and “Boys” are not on a constant loop in our heads and our earbuds. ![]()
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