Lizzo - Still Bad

Song Exploder

Hrishikesh Hirway

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4.8 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Lizzo is a Grammy- and Emmy-winning singer, rapper, songwriter, and actress. She’s been putting out music since 2013, and her last two albums both went platinum. Her fifth album, Love In Real Life, comes out this summer. For this episode, I talked to Lizzo, as well as her longtime collaborator, Grammy-winning producer Ricky Reed, about the making of one of her new songs, “Still Bad.” It wasn’t a straightforward process at all, and coming up, you’ll hear a few of the many, many demos they made on their way to the final song.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs,
0:04.0	and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
0:07.0	I'm Rishi Kesh Hirwe.
0:09.0	This episode contains explicit language.
0:13.0	Lizzo is a Grammy and Emmy-winning singer, rapper, songwriter, and actress.
0:20.0	She's been putting out music since
0:21.6	2013, and her last two albums both went platinum. Her fifth album, Love in Real Life, comes out
0:27.4	this summer. For this episode, I talked to Lizzo as well as her longtime collaborator, Grammy-winning
0:32.7	producer Ricky Reed, about the making of one of her new songs, Still Bad. It wasn't a straightforward process at all.
0:39.6	And coming up, you'll hear just a few of the many, many demos they made
0:43.4	on their way to the final song.
0:45.5	He knocked me down,
0:47.7	but I never get my fun ass off the ground.
0:51.8	Oh, but I'm riding now
0:55.1	Feeling crazy lately
0:57.5	Baby, let's go out
1:00.0	I'm Melissa
1:03.8	Lizzo in quotes
1:05.5	Vivian Jefferson
1:06.5	professionally known as Lizzo
1:08.6	I don't know I'm so giggly professionally known as Lizzo. I don't know why I'm so giggly, professionally known as Lizzo.
1:13.6	I had started working on this entire album, maybe October 2023,
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