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Lizzo Makes Tina Turner Comparison In Response To Critics Of Her Mainstream Success: “I Am Not Making Music For White People!”

<p><strong>Lizzo<&sol;strong> is no stranger to critiques about appeasing white people&period; The way the star tells it to <em>Vanity Fair<&sol;em>&&num;8211&semi;she&&num;8217&semi;s heard it before&period; At her predominantly Black school&comma; kids associated her membership in a rock band and flowery bell bottoms with <em>&&num;8220&semi;acting like a white girl&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And even with her Grammys&comma; Emmy&comma; NAACP&comma; BET&comma; and <em>Soul Train <&sol;em>awards in tow&comma; the 34-year-old singer is still hearing it&excl; Lizzo <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vanityfair&period;com&sol;style&sol;2022&sol;10&sol;lizzo-is-here-to-talk-about-all-of-it" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">tells <em>Vanity Fair<&sol;em><&sol;a> in a recent interview that <em>&&num;8220&semi;the biggest criticism&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em> people give her is that she makes music for white people&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;When Black people see a lot of white people in the audience&comma; they think&comma; Well this isn’t for me&comma; this is for them&period; The thing is&comma; when a Black artist reaches a certain level of popularity&comma; it’s going to be a predominantly white crowd&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Lizzo said&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;p&sol;CjlGHj8s7sI&sol;&quest;utm&lowbar;source&equals;ig&lowbar;embed&&num;038&semi;utm&lowbar;campaign&equals;loading" data-instgrm-version&equals;"14" style&equals;" background&colon;&num;FFF&semi; max-width&colon;658px&semi; min-width&colon;326px&semi; padding&colon;0&semi; width&colon;99&period;375&percnt;&semi; width&colon;-webkit-calc&lpar;100&percnt; - 2px&rpar;&semi; width&colon;calc&lpar;100&percnt; - 2px&rpar;&semi;"><div>&NewLine; <iframe class&equals;"custom-ig-embed" data-src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;p&sol;CjlGHj8s7sI&sol;embed&sol;captioned" allowtransparency&equals;"true" allowfullscreen&equals;"true" frameborder&equals;"0" height&equals;"640px" scrolling&equals;"no" style&equals;"background&colon;&num;FFF&semi; border&colon;0&semi; border-radius&colon;3px&semi; box-shadow&colon;0 0 1px 0 rgba&lpar;0&comma;0&comma;0&comma;0&period;5&rpar;&comma;0 1px 10px 0 rgba&lpar;0&comma;0&comma;0&comma;0&period;15&rpar;&semi; margin&colon; 1px&semi; max-width&colon;540px&semi; min-width&colon;326px&semi; padding&colon;0&semi; width&colon;99&period;375&percnt;&semi; width&colon;-webkit-calc&lpar;100&percnt; - 2px&rpar;&semi; width&colon;calc&lpar;100&percnt; - 2px&rpar;&semi;"><&sol;iframe>&NewLine; <&sol;div><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<h5 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong>The Bigger The Fame&comma; The Whiter The Crowd&quest; Lizzo Thinks So&excl; <&sol;strong><&sol;h5>&NewLine;<p>Lizzo recalled being surprised at the white audiences filling venues for <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;youtu&period;be&sol;Y9a49oFalZE" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"> Sister <strong>Rosetta Tharpe<&sol;strong><&sol;a> and<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;p&sol;CjiBPmqrr8i&sol;&quest;utm&lowbar;source&equals;ig&lowbar;web&lowbar;copy&lowbar;link" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"> <strong>Tina Turner<&sol;strong><&sol;a>&period; She also name-dropped <strong>Diana Ross&comma; Whitney Houston&comma;<&sol;strong> and <strong>Beyoncé<&sol;strong> as examples of Black artists who have reached the level of fame at which large white audiences are the norm&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><iframe title&equals;"YouTube video player" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;embed&sol;T2T5&lowbar;seDNZE" width&equals;"560" height&equals;"315" frameborder&equals;"0" allowfullscreen&equals;"allowfullscreen"><&sol;iframe><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She says that even rap artists are starting to pack arenas with<em> &&num;8220&semi;overwhelmingly white&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em> audiences&period; But her perspective as a Black woman is what inspires her music&semi; the artist told Lisa Robinson&&num;8211&semi;regardless of who&&num;8217&semi;s buying her tickets&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I am not making music for white people&period; I am a Black woman&comma; I am making music from my Black experience&comma; for me to heal myself &lbrack;from&rsqb; the experience we call life&period; If I can help other people&comma; hell yeah&period; Because we are the most marginalized and neglected people in this country&period; We need self-love and self-love anthems more than anybody&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She added&comma; <em>&&num;8220&semi;So am I making music for that girl right there who looks like me&comma; who grew up in a city where she was underappreciated and picked on and made to feel unbeautiful&quest;<&sol;em> Yes&period; It blows my mind when people say I&&num;8217&semi;m not making music from a Black perspective—how could I not do that as a Black artist&quest;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Lizzo says the criticisms bothered her until she met Black women who felt seen and inspired by her music&period; In her words&comma; she can &&num;8220&semi;relax and have a cocktail&&num;8221&semi; because she&&num;8217&semi;s comfortable in the direction she&&num;8217&semi;s moving in with her music&period; The <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;lizzo-makes-history-as-the-first-person-to-play-james-madisons-200-year-old-crystal-flute&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">more mainstream<&sol;a> she goes&comma; the more she finds those who relate&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;p&sol;Cjkz1lRNN9B&sol;&quest;utm&lowbar;source&equals;ig&lowbar;embed&&num;038&semi;utm&lowbar;campaign&equals;loading" data-instgrm-version&equals;"14" style&equals;" background&colon;&num;FFF&semi; max-width&colon;658px&semi; min-width&colon;326px&semi; padding&colon;0&semi; width&colon;99&period;375&percnt;&semi; width&colon;-webkit-calc&lpar;100&percnt; - 2px&rpar;&semi; width&colon;calc&lpar;100&percnt; - 2px&rpar;&semi;"><div>&NewLine; <iframe class&equals;"custom-ig-embed" data-src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;p&sol;Cjkz1lRNN9B&sol;embed&sol;captioned" allowtransparency&equals;"true" allowfullscreen&equals;"true" frameborder&equals;"0" height&equals;"640px" scrolling&equals;"no" style&equals;"background&colon;&num;FFF&semi; border&colon;0&semi; border-radius&colon;3px&semi; box-shadow&colon;0 0 1px 0 rgba&lpar;0&comma;0&comma;0&comma;0&period;5&rpar;&comma;0 1px 10px 0 rgba&lpar;0&comma;0&comma;0&comma;0&period;15&rpar;&semi; margin&colon; 1px&semi; max-width&colon;540px&semi; min-width&colon;326px&semi; padding&colon;0&semi; width&colon;99&period;375&percnt;&semi; width&colon;-webkit-calc&lpar;100&percnt; - 2px&rpar;&semi; width&colon;calc&lpar;100&percnt; - 2px&rpar;&semi;"><&sol;iframe>&NewLine; <&sol;div><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<h5 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">And What About Her Bae&quest; Still Together &amp&semi; In Love&excl;<&sol;h5>&NewLine;<p>Lizzo isn&&num;8217&semi;t the one to dish much on her relationship&period; As she told <em>Vanity Fair&comma; <&sol;em>her <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;lizzo-brought-in-her-34th-birthday-with-bae-myke-wright-photos&sol;">dating life<&sol;a> becoming &&num;8220&semi;news&&num;8221&semi; was bizarre&comma; and she remains determined to keep most of her life private&period; But still&comma; the artist gave a rundown on how things are going between them and if marriage is in their plans&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;ve known him for over six years&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she said&period; &&num;8220&semi;He&&num;8217&semi;s everything&period; We&&num;8217&semi;re just in love&period; And that&&num;8217&semi;s it&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>While she may be in love and not looking elsewhere&comma; she isn&&num;8217&semi;t necessarily guiding the relationship toward marriage&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;People fight for monogamy like they pray to it every day&period; I am not a polyamorous person&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m not in love with multiple partners&period; That is not me&period; He&&num;8217&semi;s the love of my life&period; We are life mates&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Lizzo&period; Do I want to get married&quest; If I wanted to start a business with him&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;d get married because that&&num;8217&semi;s when your finances come together&period; I like weddings&period; I would like to have a wedding over a marriage&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;p&sol;Cc3yY5eL6R&lowbar;&sol;&quest;utm&lowbar;source&equals;ig&lowbar;embed&&num;038&semi;utm&lowbar;campaign&equals;loading" data-instgrm-version&equals;"14" style&equals;" background&colon;&num;FFF&semi; max-width&colon;658px&semi; min-width&colon;326px&semi; padding&colon;0&semi; width&colon;99&period;375&percnt;&semi; 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