Lizzo On Nerdette
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.8 • 1.5K 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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| 0:15.0 | Hello children of the internet there are curses in this episode so hand |
| 0:19.7 | your podcast player back to your parents. |
| 0:29.0 | From W.B. E.C. Chicago, this is Nurdette. I'm Greta Johnson. Nurdette is a show where we talk to your favorite or soon to be favorite people. |
| 0:32.6 | And this week in honor of her recent new album release, |
| 0:36.1 | we are going to listen back to one of my favorite interviews ever |
| 0:40.8 | with Lizzo. Lizzo. even want a whole no more you something from the liquor store |
| 0:54.0 | little bit a little and some more |
| 0:56.0 | trying to open up a little mow |
| 0:58.0 | sorry up my heart a little slow |
| 1:01.0 | I thought that I didn't care. I thought I was loving bad. But baby, baby, I don't know what I'm gonna do. |
| 1:19.0 | I'm crying, because I love you. She is just the most magical human on earth and everyone should listen to her music all the time. |
| 1:33.2 | I just have so many feelings about this so freaking good. |
| 1:37.8 | That is the title track of Lizzo's new album. |
| 1:40.9 | It's called, Cause I Love You. This album came out April 19th and I |
| 1:44.8 | literally have been listening to nothing else since then. This is probably my |
| 1:50.3 | favorite track from the album. True story. |
| 1:52.6 | No glory, let's go. |
| 1:56.7 | Yeah, the old me used to love a Gemini. |
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