Lizzo dialed into her unfiltered self for “My Face Hurts From Smiling,” letting her lyrics spill straight from the supply.

Lizzo lower unfastened on her third mixtape, My Face Hurts From Smiling, by ditching pop polish and refusing to revise her lyrics, thereby pushing her Hip-Hop persona to the forefront.

In a Billboard interview, Lizzo defined she usually reshapes her lyrics when crafting pop tracks, however this mission was a unique story.

“That’s how I begin with all the things, it’s like a freestyle and it’s sometimes type of rappity, after which I add melody, after which I am going in and regulate the lyrics after which be like, are you able to say this in pop music?” she mentioned.

For My Face Hurts From Smiling, which dropped final month, she made a aware resolution to let her lyrics lead with no filter.

“I believe that was the most important factor, like with this mission, I’m like, the very first thing that comes out my mouth Imma say it. I’m not gonna edit myself,” she added.

The mixtape, which highlights Lizzo’s rap roots extra instantly than her earlier LPs, additionally contains a visitor look from SZA on the tune “IRL.”

The duo’s connection goes deeper than the music.

“There’s a whole lot of like real help and he or she’s one of many solely folks I can textual content at three within the morning once I’m crashing out,” mentioned Lizzo. “I actually recognize her ’trigger she understands, and I believe it’s actually laborious so that you can have somebody in your life who’s identified you for a very long time and in addition understands the world you’re in.”

The mission comes on the heels of Lizzo wrapping her fifth studio album Love in Actual Life, which she confirmed she completed earlier this yr.

Though she has already launched the singles “Love in Actual Life” and “Nonetheless Unhealthy,” there’s no confirmed launch date for the entire album.

The mixtape My Face Hurts From Smiling was launched in April.

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