Lizzo’s “Grrrls” Lyric Controversy - Between The Scenes
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
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4.2 • 14.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
| 0:03.7 | Can we talk about this, uh, this Lizzo thing for a second? |
| 0:08.3 | Did you, did you see what happened with Lizzo? |
| 0:11.1 | So for those of you who don't know, Lizzo has a, uh, a new song out, girl, zzzzzzzzzzz. |
| 0:17.0 | Um, it's a really fun song. |
| 0:19.0 | It's really popular, it's on all the charts and everything. |
| 0:22.0 | And in, in the song, Lizzo has one of her lyrics where she says spas, like we're gonna |
| 0:27.0 | spaz out, you know, which Americans commonly know as means like go crazy, have fun, throw |
| 0:33.1 | party, whatever. |
| 0:34.1 | You can use it in like multiple different ways, fun ways. |
| 0:36.6 | Um, what was interesting was that, that somebody, uh, tweeted to Lizzo and they said to her, |
| 0:41.3 | hey, uh, just so you know, um, spaz is a word that is used specifically, you know, it's |
| 0:47.5 | a derogatory term used to describe people who have, uh, disabilities and they use that |
| 0:51.9 | comedy like the UK and Australia, you know? |
| 0:53.9 | And they were like, oh yeah, this is, this is, you know, how I, how I feel about this. |
| 0:59.0 | And, and then Lizzo, which is really gracious, Lizzo has, has changed the lyric of the song. |
| 1:04.5 | So she went back, changed the lyric and she was like, hey, I didn't mean to do that. |
| 1:09.0 | So I'll, I'll change the lyric. |
| 1:11.2 | Very gracious of her, you know? |
| 1:13.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.2 | But, what was weird is that the story didn't end there. |
| 1:20.0 | That's the weird thing, what happened since then is people have been piling on Lizzo, |
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