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Nerdette Recaps With Peter Sagal

Lizzo On Nerdette

Nerdette Recaps With Peter Sagal

WBEZ

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4.6924 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Lizzo recently landed on the Billboard 200 chart for the first time with her new album ‘Cuz I Love You,’ making now the perfect time to revisit her 2016 conversation with Nerdette's Greta Johnsen. 

Lizzo and Greta talk about what inspired her 2016 EP 'Coconut Oil' and how Lizzo became Lizzo.

And your homework after listening to this episode is, of course, to play ‘Cuz I Love You’ on repeat, forever?

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0:00.0

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0:06.1

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0:12.7

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0:25.7

Join me as I share how the genre began, their social impact, and why these stories endure.

0:28.0

Listen, wherever you get your podcast.

0:32.2

Hello, children of the internet.

0:37.5

There are curses in this episode, so hand your podcast player back to your parents.

0:55.6

From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette. I'm Greta Johnson. Nurdette is a show where we talk to your favorite or soon-to-be favorite people. And this week, in honor of her recent new album release, we are going to listen back to one of my favorite interviews ever with Lizzo.

0:58.4

Never been in love before. What the fuck of fucking feelings, yo? Once upon a time I was a

1:04.6

ho. I don't even want a hoe no more. Got you something from the liquor store. Little

1:09.7

bit of Lizzo and some mo. Trying to open up a little

1:13.2

mo. Sorry up my heart a little slow. I thought that I didn't care. I thought I was loving bad. But baby, baby, I don't know what I'm going to She's crying She is just the most She is just the most magical human on earth

1:45.4

And everyone should listen to her music all the time

1:48.0

I just have so many feelings about this

1:52.2

So freaking good

1:53.3

That is the title track of Lizzo's new album

1:56.3

It's called Cause I Love You

1:58.2

This album came out April 19th

2:00.1

And I literally have been listening to nothing else since then.

2:04.4

This is probably my favorite track from the album.

2:06.9

True story.

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