From playing the flute for her school's marching band to becoming "100% that b***," this is Lizzo's story.
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00:00Lizzo, I don't know. I don't know how to describe her, man. She's crazy.
00:06She's got a lot of levels. She's deep. She's very deep, like the ocean.
00:12She's beautiful and talented and smart. I wish I was Lizzo.
00:30You're not gonna listen to a Lizzo song and be like, you know what? Lizzo's gonna change
00:52my life. No, you're gonna change your life. You know what I'm saying? Because that's how
00:55I had to do it. I ain't got no fucking magic wand. You just have to do it yourself.
01:25This is Sasha Flute. Puberty didn't make me happy. Sweating a bunch and all of that shit.
01:42That sucked. I got teased. I got made fun of. I was sad. I didn't want to look like myself.
01:47I wanted to be somebody else. That's just a part of it. You look at magazines and you
01:53think of things you want to change. You think of things that you want to fix on your body.
01:57And you feel like you don't belong in your friend group. You feel like the ugly one in
02:04your friends, the undesirable one. You feel like boys don't like you. Girls don't like you. You
02:09don't even know what you like. It's hard. We're confused.
03:09How do you want to live your life? Do you want to be unhappy with yourself every fucking day? Or
03:27do you want to be happy with the body you were given and the person that you are? It's just
03:33accepting yourself. I was just so afraid. I was like, no one wants to hear what I have to say.
03:46No one wants to just look at me. And making solo music was so hard for me. And I would always be
03:52in these groups with my best friends and women that I thought were prettier than me and cooler
03:55than me and more interesting than me. I mean, they are pretty and they are cool and they are
04:00interesting, but I would always put them on this pedestal like they deserved the spotlight more
04:05than I did.
04:30Oh, you got a problem? Get a solution.
05:00I use sadness so constructively. In the last two years, ever since I've been working on being
05:11emotionally honest, I've used sadness as a tool for gratitude. It's humbling and I'm grateful that
05:21I'm able to feel these emotions because I know that because of the sadness, I'm going to be able
05:33to feel joy.
05:51I got to take my fucking bra off. It hurts. The longer you deal with yourself, the more you accept
05:58it. Just like with anything, just like with that bra. The longer I wear that bra, the more I'll deal
06:05with the pain, but you have a choice. You can take the bra off or you can live your whole life in pain.
06:11I think that the bra is a metaphor of societal pressure to conform.
06:41Love is a drug with amphetamines. D-A-R-E-W, come to me. Y'all, who you think you sassing?
06:46Sassing?
06:48Spending all your time trying to break a woman down. Realest shit is going on. Baby, take a look
06:55around. If you thought that I was ratchet with my ass hanging out, just wait until the summer when they
07:02let me out the house, bitch.
07:04People saying shit about me that just doesn't even make sense. It's fatphobic, it's racist, and it's
07:16hurtful. If you don't like my music, cool. If you don't like rumors, it's all cool. But a lot of people
07:25don't like me because of the way I look. And I'm like, I make music that I like, that's important to
07:35me. And I make music that I hope helps people. Period. Everyone is invited to a Lizzo show, to a
07:46Lizzo song, to this good energy. Everyone's invited.
07:51Bye, bitch.