{"id":1776322,"date":"2022-12-15T11:03:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T16:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1776322"},"modified":"2022-12-15T11:03:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T16:03:09","slug":"very-hurtful-lizzo-responds-to-claims-she-makes-music-for-white-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/very-hurtful-lizzo-responds-to-claims-she-makes-music-for-white-people\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Very Hurtful\u2019: Lizzo Responds To Claims She Makes Music For White People"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fvery-hurtful-lizzo-responds-to-claims-she-makes-music-for-white-people%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=1776322&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>Rap artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/lizzo\">Lizzo<\/a> has responded to critics who accused her of targeting white fans with her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/celebrities\">music<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The topic came up during her recently released HBO Max documentary, \u201cLove, Lizzo,\u201d and she addressed critics during a recent interview.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[It\u2019s] very hurtful, only because I am a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/race\">black woman<\/a>, and I feel like it really challenges my identity and who I am, and diminishes that, which I think is really hurtful,\u201d Lizzo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dJG2BAmeDog\">said<\/a> during an appearance on \u201cThe Howard Stern Show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like a lot of people, truthfully, don\u2019t get me \u2014 which is why I wanted to do this documentary, because I was like, \u2018I feel like y\u2019all don\u2019t understand me, y\u2019all don\u2019t know where I came from \u2026\u2019\u201d she continued. \u201cAnd now I don\u2019t want to answer no more questions about this s***. I want to show the world who I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lizzo describes her songs as \u201cfunky, soulful, feel-good music\u201d inspired by many genres, including 70s and 80s artists.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time the \u201cTruth Hurts\u201d singer addressed race as it relates to her music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think if people did any research they would see that there was race music and then there was pop music,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/tv\/love-lizzo-documentary-concert-film-interview\/\">told<\/a> Entertainment Weekly in November.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd race music was their way of segregating black artists from being mainstream, because they didn\u2019t want their kids listening to music created by black and brown people because they said it was demonic and yada, yada, yada.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lizzo said while all her friends in school listened to rap music, she was mocked for being more into bands like Radiohead.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old Grammy winner, whose real name is Melissa Viviane Jefferson, previously spoke with Vanity Fair about her thoughts on race, politics, and twerking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it\u2019s sexual, it\u2019s mine,\u201d Lizzo said. \u201cWhen it\u2019s sexualized, someone is doing it to me or taking it from me. Black women are hypersexualized all the time, and masculinized simultaneously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of the structure of racism, if you\u2019re thinner and lighter, or your features are narrow, you\u2019re closer to being a woman,\u201d she went on, as The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/lizzo-says-she-she-wears-skimpy-outfits-on-stage-to-be-political-and-feminist\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As for the popular dance style, Lizzo claimed twerking was a \u201cblack woman thing\u201d that\u2019s \u201cprinted in our DNA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt disappeared and resurfaced in the 1920s, then disappeared and resurfaced in the 1980s. It\u2019s an almost inexplicable phenomenon,\u201d the \u201cGood As Hell\u201d composer said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rap artist Lizzo has responded to critics who accused her of targeting white fans with her music. The topic came up during her recently released HBO Max documentary, \u201cLove, Lizzo,\u201d and she addressed critics during a recent interview.\u00a0 \u201c[It\u2019s] very hurtful, only because I am a black woman, and I feel like it really challenges &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1776325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[7348,4856,6202,9307,9306,3863,4370,4499,3765,6195],"class_list":["post-1776322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-very","tag-claims","tag-daily","tag-hurtful","tag-lizzo","tag-music","tag-people","tag-responds","tag-white","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776322","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=1776322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1776325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}