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Lizzo Is in Limbo
On “Love in Real Life,” she struggles to change her narrative.
The post was probably only telegraphing the upcoming release of a new single, “Love in Real Life,” but the wrong guesses in the comments — “So, all the self-love was a lie?” — spoke as much to a fraught moment in her career as the measured messaging in the polished track and video. The track, produced by Blake Slatkin and longtime Lizzo collaborator Ricky Reed, is a placid Strokes-y thumper whose riff periodically breaks free from its cage during a chorus that kicks the aughts-rock shtick back a few decades into roadhouse territory. Fighting for space in a rock club swiftly taking darkly supernatural airs, Lizzo delivers a “get these zombies out of my face unless they know how to party” routine to dovetail with lyrics about checking out of social obligations and into somebody’s bar.
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