Lizzo has celebrated her 38th birthday by announcing the title of her new album.<\/p>\n
Returning to Instagram on Monday, the Juice hitmaker – real name Melissa Jefferson – marked her special day by revealing that she has named her fifth studio album B**ch. The offering is set to drop on 5 June.<\/p>\n
“HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME! To celebrate I present to you – MY NEW ALBUM B**CH COMING JUNE 5TH,” she wrote. “Wanna get me a gift? Pre-order my album baby!!!!”<\/p>\n
Lizzo also shared the cover art for the album, which features an image of a manicured hand holding up a cutout of the music star in place of a middle finger.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Cuz I Love You singer is scheduled to unveil the album’s title track, which interpolates Meredith Brooks’s 1997 song of the same name, on Friday.<\/p>\n
In a statement, Lizzo explained how she wants to reclaim the meaning of the word “b**ch”.<\/p>\n
“Reclaiming the word B**ch is power – it’s taking a label once used to diminish women and turning it into a declaration of confidence, and unapologetic self-love,” she shared. “So many incredible women in music have used the word for positivity, like Meredith Brooks and Missy Elliott. It was only fitting to name my album B**ch because it has become my favourite word when using it on my own terms and because I am 100 per cent that b**ch!”<\/p>\n
Lizzo has several other projects in the pipeline.<\/p>\n
She is set to release a children’s book titled Lil Lizzo Meets Sasha B. Flootin’ in September and is to play musician Sister Rosetta Tharpe in the upcoming biopic, Rosetta, from Amazon MGM Studios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lizzo has celebrated her 38th birthday by announcing the title of her new album. Returning to Instagram on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-401264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}