{"id":1515193,"date":"2022-06-14T11:19:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T15:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1515193"},"modified":"2022-06-14T11:19:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T15:19:56","slug":"lizzo-changes-lyrics-after-backlash-over-ableist-slur-internet-reacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lizzo-changes-lyrics-after-backlash-over-ableist-slur-internet-reacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Lizzo Changes Lyrics After Backlash Over \u2018Ableist Slur,\u2019 Internet Reacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flizzo-changes-lyrics-after-backlash-over-ableist-slur-internet-reacts%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1515193&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/lizzo\">Lizzo<\/a> recently announced she was changing the words to her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/music\">new song<\/a> \u201cGRRRLS\u201d after coming under fire for using an \u201cableist slur\u201d in the lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been brought to my attention that there is a harmful word in my new song \u2018GRRRLS,&#8217;\u201d the 34-year-old singer shared in a Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lizzo\/status\/1536480260732047361\">update<\/a>. \u201cLet me make one thing clear: I never want to promote derogatory language.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a fat Black woman in America, I\u2019ve had many hurtful words used against me so I overstand the power words can have (whether intentionally or in my case, unintentionally),\u201d she continued. \u201cI\u2019m proud to say there\u2019s a new version of GRRRLS with a lyric change. This is the result of me listening and taking action. As an influential artist I\u2019m dedicated to being part of the change I\u2019ve been waiting to see in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QH6WufEjGh\">pic.twitter.com\/QH6WufEjGh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FOLLOW @YITTY (@lizzo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lizzo\/status\/1536480260732047361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The line in question includes the word \u201cspaz,\u201d which is not very controversial in the United States but is considered derogatory in the United Kingdom. Though in modern slang it refers to clumsiness, across the pond the word references movements associated with cerebral palsy, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/lizzo-new-song-grrrls-abelist-slur-twitter-why-1715267\">Newsweek<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHold my bag, b****\/ Hold my bag\/ Do you see this s***?\/ I\u2019m a spaz\/ I\u2019m about to knock somebody out\/ Yo, where my best friend?\/ She the only one I know to talk me off the deep end,\u201d Lizzo sings in the original version of \u201cGRRRLS.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>One person on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hannah_diviney\/status\/1535818662749548545\">responded<\/a>, \u201cHey @lizzo my disability Cerebral Palsy is literally classified as Spastic Diplegia (where spasticity refers to unending painful tightness in my legs) your new song makes me pretty angry + sad. \u2018Sp-z\u2019 doesn\u2019t mean freaked out or crazy. It\u2019s an ableist slur. It\u2019s 2022. Do better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There were other similar messages prior to Lizzo deciding to change her new song. Meanwhile, some Twitter users thought critics were overly sensitive in their assessment.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire\u2019s Matt Walsh <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattWalshBlog\/status\/1536686067419684864\">tweeted<\/a> in response to the lyric change, \u201cThe song is full of profanity and violence. She threatens to cut a man\u2019s penis off and assault random strangers. But the part that offends people is when she uses the word \u2018spaz.\u2019 We are the dumbest society in the history of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others were similarly confused, pointing out how much the singer uses the word \u201cb****\u201d in the lyrics, which more people were likely to find offensive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is Lizzo\u2019s second single off her new album \u201cSpecial\u201d, which debuts July 15. \u201cAbout Damn Time\u201d was the first and quickly became a Top 10 Billboard hit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lizzo recently announced she was changing the words to her new song \u201cGRRRLS\u201d after coming under fire for using an \u201cableist slur\u201d in the lyrics. \u201cIt\u2019s been brought to my attention that there is a harmful word in my new song \u2018GRRRLS,\u2019\u201d the 34-year-old singer shared in a Twitter update. \u201cLet me make one thing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1515274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1515274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}