Just wait until the summer when they let me out the house!

August 15, 2021 12:22 PM

Rumors feat Cardi B is the first new Lizzo track in 2 years!
posted by hippybear (26 comments total)

O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede
Of marble men and maidens overwrought...

[urn twerk for the win, rubbable stone phalli take silver, cherubic willies for the bronze. ]

[is Cardi B. pregnant? or just rocking a Venus of Willendorf look?]
posted by chavenet at 12:31 PM on August 15, 2021

bangin!
posted by djseafood at 1:16 PM on August 15, 2021

Just found this. If you're into a 40 minute conversation about a 4 minute song, I give you Lizzo: "Rumors" with Cardi B, Delivering Hard Truths, and Manifesting Confidence | Apple Music
posted by hippybear at 2:07 PM on August 15, 2021 [6 favorites]

[is Cardi B. pregnant? or just rocking a Venus of Willendorf look?]

She's pregnant.
posted by box at 2:30 PM on August 15, 2021 [1 favorite]

I really hope this gets all the conservatives whose entire personality is a whitewashed notion of “classical antiquity” into a frothing, impotent rage.
posted by Jon_Evil at 4:34 PM on August 15, 2021 [8 favorites]

Depends on if you have followed Lizzo across the past few years, I guess. I mean, if you found Good As Hell or Cause I Love You or Phone or any of her other music appealing, you might like this. You might also be familiar with her work regarding body acceptance and trying to become the most positive performer ever, and that might also be appealing.

Mostly it's music, and like all other forms of art, there is no accounting for taste, and each will find their own.
posted by hippybear at 5:01 PM on August 15, 2021 [3 favorites]

The Muses were the best part of the Disney Hercules movie, so I’m EXTRA delighted to see this music video. (Second best was James Woods as Hades.)
posted by joyceanmachine at 5:25 PM on August 15, 2021 [2 favorites]

(Second best was James Woods as Hades.)

Nope. No. Not even.
posted by pxe2000 at 6:01 PM on August 15, 2021 [2 favorites]

I love the spark of creation tableau that closes the video, and it's not passing from one to the other. It's just ignited. Love both of them.
posted by gladly at 6:01 PM on August 15, 2021 [5 favorites]

Ok that's a good song.
posted by medusa at 6:39 PM on August 15, 2021 [1 favorite]

I love the spark of creation tableau that closes the video

And the encircling decoration!
posted by MonkeyToes at 6:49 PM on August 15, 2021 [2 favorites]

This is fantastic.
posted by Anonymous at 7:11 PM on August 15, 2021

It's fun to rewatch to catch all the little background animations (and bonus phalluses and vulvas). Also shout out to Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

Cardi B's lyrics are so smart and funny:

They even post it on blogs overseas
And lie in a language I can't even read

make me laugh just like

I want you to park that big Mack truck
Right in this little garage (truck horn sound)
posted by emjaybee at 7:31 PM on August 15, 2021 [3 favorites]

Huh. I'm not going to post links about the DRAMA, but apparently after this video went live, there was a LOT of real negative body-shaming and somehow this song is too white [???], and she ended up in tears on Instagram Live and now people are leaping to her defense, and Cardi B got involved with backing her up....

Why are people cruel? *sigh*
posted by hippybear at 7:38 PM on August 15, 2021

Why are people cruel? *sigh*

Haters do what they do.
posted by fuse theorem at 8:23 PM on August 15, 2021 [6 favorites]

The real life irony is not lost, surely.
posted by hippybear at 8:27 PM on August 15, 2021

I love this so much, fuck those being cruel.
posted by ellieBOA at 11:27 PM on August 15, 2021 [1 favorite]

OH HELL YEAH
posted by Hermione Granger at 11:43 PM on August 15, 2021

If Lizzo Still Makes You Uncomfortable, Oh Well
posted by chavenet at 1:29 AM on August 16, 2021 [3 favorites]

I thought the video was great for many reasons, body positivity among them, and I'm sorry that some people were cruel.
posted by Dip Flash at 5:57 AM on August 16, 2021

Amazing. Lizzo and Cardi B. make an excellent team.
posted by minsies at 7:58 AM on August 16, 2021 [1 favorite]

I loved this, and I loved the little disconnects between the subtitles and the sung lyrics even more. I mean, maybe that was automated transcription errors, but it looked like someone put some time into that.
posted by straw at 8:53 AM on August 16, 2021

That track is DOPE, and the video is delightful.
posted by LooseFilter at 9:12 AM on August 16, 2021 [1 favorite]

Hot damn.
posted by jameaterblues at 10:39 AM on August 16, 2021

straw maybe that was automated transcription errors, but it looked like someone put some time into that

The subtitles are the lyrics for the radio edit.
posted by snowmentality at 11:06 AM on August 16, 2021 [1 favorite]

From chavenet's link:

The eagerness to take Lizzo down a peg for some perceived affront to decency, sparked by behavior as benign as displaying a bit of ass, says much more about us than her. We’re not as forward-thinking as we fancy ourselves. We’re still beholden to outdated 20th-century attitudes toward sex, sexuality, and gender roles, and all too eager to project this baggage on others.
posted by medusa at 8:42 PM on August 16, 2021 [2 favorites]