We Applaud Lizzo For Making This Change To Her Song

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🗓️ 14 June 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0	Listen, it's the Bird Show.
0:02.0	What's trending now?
0:03.0	No!
0:04.0	Kristen knows.
0:05.0	It's the Bird Show's entertainment box.
0:07.0	Lizzo has changed the lyrics to her new song Girls after she was accused of using an
0:13.2	Abelist Slur.
0:15.0	So there is a word that she uses that is a slur used against people with cerebral palsy.
0:20.4	Palsy and it's considered an Abelist Slur.
0:23.6	And she said she would never want to promote derogatory language and I really love what
0:28.0	she wrote and what she posted.
0:31.2	Because it's basically saying I made a mistake.
0:34.2	I'm listening to what people are saying.
0:36.1	I'm learning from it and I'm going to be better and I'm going to do what I can to make
0:42.7	this right.
0:44.4	And she basically owned it and said as a fat black woman, I've had derogatory words
0:50.3	used to her me and so I understand the power of words.
0:53.4	And so this is the new lyric.
0:55.4	Hold my back.
0:57.4	Don't you see it?
0:59.4	Hold it back.
1:00.4	I'm about to let somebody out go with my best friend.
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