New Era blogherads.adq.push(function () ); Lizzo Celebrates Her Birthday by Announcing New Album ‘Bitch’ The record, arriving in the place of the ostensibly scrapped Love in Real Life, is set to drop in June By Jon Blistein Jon Blistein Contact Jon Blistein by Email John Oliver Begins His Slap-Happy Stint on the Soap Opera ‘Days of Our Lives’ Kennedy Center to Cover $250,000 Legal Fees of Jazz Musician Who Protested Trump Takeover Noah Kahan Tees Up Second ‘Folk and Fairways’ Charity Show and Golf Tournament View all posts by Jon Blistein April 27, 2026 Lizzo at the 2026 Vanity Fair Oscar Party. Lionel Hahn/Getty Images Lizzo is finally ready to release her new album, with the pop star revealing that her fifth LP, Bitch, will arrive on June 5. On Instagram, Lizzo shared the album title and release date, as well as the cover art: A hand flipping a middle finger, though the offending digit has been replaced by an ebullient photo of Lizzo raising her hands with a big smile on her face.
Pre-order my album baby!!!!” View this post on Instagram In a statement, Lizzo said of the album’s title, “Reclaiming the word Bitch is power — it’s taking a label once used to diminish women and turning it into a declaration of confidence, and unapologetic self-love. So many incredible women in music have used the word for positivity like Meredith Brooks and Missy Elliot. It was only fitting to name my album Bitch because it has become my favorite word when using it on my own terms and because I am 100% that bitch!” blogherads.adq.push(function () { blogherads .defineSlot( 'medrec', 'gpt-dsk-tab-article-inbody-uid0' ) .setTargeting( 'pos', ["mid-article","mid","in-article1","mid-article1","inbody","inbody1"] ) .setTargeting( 'viewable', 'yes' ) .setSubAdUnitPath("music\/article\/inbody1") .addSize([[300,250],[620,350],[2,2],[3,3],[2,4],[4,2],[640,250],[6,6],[620,366]]) .setClsOptimization("minsize") ; }); Lizzo also revealed the track list for Bitch, though there aren’t any other details yet regarding collaborators or possible features.
Bitch marks Lizzo’s first proper solo album in four years, following 2022’s Special, as well as her 2025 mixtape, My Face Hurts from Smiling. Bitch will notably arrive in the place of Love in Real Life, the album Lizzo first announced back in February 2025. At the time, Lizzo released a pair of singles — the title-track and “Still Bad” — and performed a third unreleased song “Don’t Make Me You Love U” on Saturday Night Live.
But the singles faced heavy criticism and failed to make a dent on the charts, and the album was never released. In a big New York Magazine profile last year, Lizzo expressed some discontent with the early singles, calling “Still Bad” “overproduced” and “overthought,” and noting it and “Love in Real Life” were written in 2022. I was like, I need to do shit differently and I don’t know what it is, but I’m going to just start following my instincts.” blogherads.adq.push(function () { blogherads .defineSlot( 'medrec', 'gpt-dsk-tab-article-inbody2-uid1' ) .setTargeting( 'pos', ["mid-article2","mid","in-article2","mid-article","inbody","inbody2"] ) .setTargeting( 'viewable', 'yes' ) .setSubAdUnitPath("music\/article\/inbody2") .addSize([[300,250],[300,251],[620,350],[2,4],[4,2],[3,3],[2,2],[6,6],[620,366]]) .setLazyLoadMultiplier(2) .setClsOptimization("minsize") ; }); Trending Stories Why Was It So Hard for Sam Cooke’s Grandkids to Drop a Soul Album?
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Meanwhile, “Love in Real Life” and “Still Bad” don’t appear on the track list, but “Don’t Make Me Love U” — officially released as a single last month — will be on the record. try ); }); } catch (error) In this article: Lizzo Music Music News
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