'Booked, blessed and busy': Lizzo returns
Lizzo's summer turned up a notch Friday, with the poster child of self-love
dropping her long-awaited album "Special" fresh off an Emmy nomination and ahead of a forthcoming tour.
The 12-track record brings back the soulful pop-rap blends that made the
effervescent performer a household name with her messages of body positivity,
feminist empowerment and sexual freedom.
The hitmaker, whose 2017 song "Truth Hurts" became a viral sleeper smash and
boosted her to global fame two years later, promoted the release of her fourth
album with a "Today" show performance in Manhattan outside of NBC's studios.
"I'm so proud of this album," she told the show Friday. "It was three years in the making.