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Lizzo on the 2025 Self-importance Honest Oscar Occasion and Sydney Sweeney on the “Echo Valley” European Premier
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Key Takeaways:
- Lizzo dropped a brand new snippet referencing Sydney Sweeney’s controversial American Eagle commercial with a daring lyric.
- The bar arrives amid backlash over the industrial’s messaging and a Fox Information phase mentioning Lizzo.
- American Eagle responded to the controversy.
Lizzo will not be letting up on Sydney Sweeney’s controversial American Eagle marketing campaign. On Wednesday (Aug. 6), the four-time Grammy Award winner dropped a brand new track snippet the place she instantly name-dropped the “Euphoria” actress.
“No kizzy, he ain’t acquired no enterprise being with me / Fats a**, fairly face with the titties / B**ch, I acquired good genes, like I am Sydney,” Lizzo rapps whereas hosing down a pink Porsche in ripped denim cutoffs. “You’re cute denims,” the Houston artist captioned the TikTok submit.
The “About Rattling Time” hitmaker had already teased the track on Monday (Aug. 4) whereas clapping again at conservatives. Within the clip, a Fox Information commentator claims that Sweeney’s marketing campaign signaled that “we’re over this woke agenda.” He goes on to say, “We’re over the Lizzos, we’re over the Dylan Mulvaneys. If this have been a 300-pound non-binary particular person, they’d be applauding her.”
The video then lower to Lizzo buttoning up her denims, much like how Sweeney zipped hers up within the unique commercial. The submit’s caption merely learn, “Lizzo’s acquired good denims.”
Final Thursday (July 31), Lizzo posted a meme of herself sporting denim that reads, “If the Democrats received the election.” She responded, “My denims are black.” It arrived amid ongoing backlash over Sweeney’s American Eagle marketing campaign, which many felt unintentionally implied {that a} white, blonde, blue-eyed lady represents the usual for “good denims” — or “good genes.”
American Eagle has since responded to the controversy with an announcement: “‘Sydney Sweeney Has Nice Denims’ is and all the time was concerning the denims. Her denims. Her story. We’ll proceed to rejoice how everybody wears their AE denims with confidence, their means. Nice denims look good on everybody.”
As for Lizzo, she dropped her shock mixtape, MY FACE HURTS FROM SMILING, in June.