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Lizzo and Cardi B channel Disney’s Hercules in new video and bless the people with a huge bop​

MICHELE THEIL AUGUST 13, 2021
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Pop icons Lizzo and Cardi B have dropped their much-hyped collaboration, “Rumors”, alongside an Ancient Greek-inspired music video that has fans screaming.

“Rumors” is Lizzo’s first single in two years and finds the singer taking aim at online gossip while channeling Disney’s Hercules.

The video sees Lizzo draped in gold and surrounded by her very own Muses (a nod to the animated classic), while a topless, pregnant Cardi B raps from a throne.

The collaboration has both artists sarcastically agreeing that “all the rumours are true”, with Lizzo remarking on negative comments made about her body and debunking the rumour that she slept with Canadian rapper Drake.

“Spending all your time trying to break a woman down / Realer s**t is going on, baby, take a look around,” Lizzo sings, while Cardi B raps about the suggestion that she has a “fake ass and fake boobs”.
The eye-catching music video starts by zooming in to Lizzo singing on the side of a vase, before she through a large Mount Olympus-style area with clouds behind her and gorgeous statues dotted around. Lizzo is dressed in a gold draped dress, to emulate the goddesses of Greek mythology.

Fans were quick to proclaim “Rumors” a smash and demanded that Disney cast Lizzo in the rumoured live-action Hercules remake.
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Teasing the song ahead of its release, Lizzo shared a photo of herself and Cardi B on Instagram along with the risqué caption: “Fun fact: we took this picture right after Cardi whispered ‘I want to eat yo pussy’ in my ear. Rumors this Friday, you ready?”
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Lizzo first teased the arrival of “Rumors” earlier this month, and recently shared a video of herself on working in a studio with Mark Ronson on more new music.

Appropriately timed to this release, she also recently dismissed the rumour that she killed a fan.
 
I miss Queen Latifah and Missy Elliot…

This was really ugly and bizarre. All it showed me is that a bunch of fat women doing a dance number is just as boring and tragic as I thought it would be. All of them were off their mark (or still jiggling after they stopped so it broke the synchronization), they couldn’t do more than hand-jive and walk around hand-jiving, the costumes were ugly, the background was ugly, and overall it was visually lacking. The song itself is standard industry mac n’ cheese; it’s bland, easy to make, and not good for anyone. But what it lacks in poignant thoughts or imagination, it makes up for by being (unfortunately) ear-wormy.

Also this is like the second or third video I’ve seen with a really pregnant melanated pop singer intentionally exposing her belly and I don’t care, but I do think the trend is kind of odd.
 
I miss Queen Latifah and Missy Elliot…

This was really ugly and bizarre. All it showed me is that a bunch of fat women doing a dance number is just as boring and tragic as I thought it would be. All of them were off their mark (or still jiggling after they stopped so it broke the synchronization), they couldn’t do more than hand-jive and walk around hand-jiving, the costumes were ugly, the background was ugly, and overall it was visually lacking. The song itself is standard industry mac n’ cheese; it’s bland, easy to make, and not good for anyone. But what it lacks in poignant thoughts or imagination, it makes up for by being (unfortunately) ear-wormy.

Also this is like the second or third video I’ve seen with a really pregnant melanated pop singer intentionally exposing her belly and I don’t care, but I do think the trend is kind of odd.
Not one for 2000s-on pop but at least Queen Latifa and Missy Elliot had some class, which cannot be said for this Lizzo ... person.
(edit, hukt on fonix wurkt 4 me)
 
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A&N mods plz forgive images, given that this is about a video I believe they are necessary.
Behold, stills:
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The woman on the vase to the left here is actually animated and twerking.
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The elites are making fun of people when they make this. This is a mockery, like making a prisoner dance by shooting at them. They're saying "I bet you stupid fucks are so goddamn brainwashed and beholden to whatever garbage we tell you to like that you'll pretend to like anything, no matter how bad."

And they're right. Anyone who likes this, even ironically, is too far gone to save. They started off with an abysmal IQ and traded it in for a mass produced synthetic personality.
 
Sometimes I have the attention span of a baby who likes shiny things, so I found the video entertaining. The music isn't that good, but it's cool with me. Also, I was a big fan of Disney's Hercules as a kid, so maybe it's the nostalgia talking.
 
The Disney version was 4 skinny women and 1 fat chick. The Lizzo version is 7 fat chicks and 0 skinny women. Just in case you needed a numerical tracker for the decline in cultural depictions.

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The song isn't even worth hearing. It's two women bitching about being on Twitter, and pretending they're soooooo strong for being fat and doing a song after 2 years of nothing.
 
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