{"id":463159,"date":"2026-06-05T23:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T23:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/463159\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T23:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T23:48:08","slug":"lizzo-celebrates-new-album-twerking-at-nyc-gay-bars-for-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/463159\/","title":{"rendered":"Lizzo celebrates new album twerking at NYC gay bars for pride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lizzo is 100% that pitch. The singer is all over town giving the hard sell for her new album.<\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/04\/entertainment\/madonna-67-shocks-in-skintight-pink-corset-at-surprise-nyc-times-square-concert\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Madonna was performing for the Grindr gays in Times Square<\/a> on Thursday, Lizzo was hitting up the bars in famed gayborhoods Hell\u2019s Kitchen and the West Village to promote her new album \u201cBitch.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re told the singer popped into gay bar Hardware, where she bought the entire bar a round of drinks. And after getting the rainbow crowd boozed up there, she headed downtown to Pieces Bar for a repeat!<\/p>\n<p>At Pieces, she checked out legendary New York drag queen Shequida\u2019s show, and bought everyone a round of drinks there too. Lizzo even performed two songs and \u201ctwerked with the queens.\u201d \u201cShe sang live,\u201d a spy told Page Six.<\/p>\n<p>Lizzo hit up NYC gay bars to celebrate pride and her new album \u201cBitch.\u201d GC Images<\/p>\n<p>The singer celebrated at Hardware in Hell\u2019s Kitchen and Pieces Bar (above) in the West Village. GC Images<\/p>\n<p>Lizzo surprised everyone with a live performance.  GC Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone was so excited and surprised to see her,\u201d they added. The cheerful singer \u201cmade it rain cash on Shequida,\u201d our source added. Patrons then followed her around the corner to Gay St. for a photo opp. <\/p>\n<p>Lizzo\u2019s street marketing campaign didn\u2019t end at the gay bars. The singer posted a video from West Houston St., where she projected her album title and release date onto a building in Soho. \u201cMy album just dropped and I don\u2019t think a poster is big enough honey,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>Lizzo kept the promo going bright and early on Friday morning performing as part of the \u201cToday\u201d show\u2019s summer concert series. But it wasn\u2019t all self promo for the \u201cTruth Hurts\u201d singer. She took time out to plug The Post\u2019s Jeanette Settembre\u2019s debut novel \u201cLittle Red Flags\u201d at her album signing at Rough Trade in Rockefeller Center later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Lizzo bought everyone a round of drinks.  GC Images<\/p>\n<p>Lizzo made it rain on drag queen Shequida.  GC Images<\/p>\n<p>She shouted out \u201csex, crime, and passion\u201d and recommended it as a spicy summer read to her 11 million followers. <\/p>\n<p>It turns out Lizzo really is 100 percent that bitch!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lizzo is 100% that pitch. The singer is all over town giving the hard sell for her new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,1017,29696,157,40940,111,139,69,55233],"class_list":["post-463159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-exclusive","tag-lizzo","tag-music","tag-musicians","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pride"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463159","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=463159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}