Lizzo announces her new album ‘Bitch,’ out June 5 via Nice Life/Atlantic. Title track drops May 1 and interpolates Meredith Brooks’ 1997 classic
Lizzo chose her 38th birthday to make her biggest announcement in four years. On April 27, the Grammy and Emmy Award-winning pop star revealed that her forthcoming album is titled Bitch, set for release on June 5 via Nice Life/Atlantic Records. The 12-track LP will be preceded by its title track on May 1, the same day a music video drops, and arrives as a pointed statement of reclamation from one of pop’s most high-profile figures. The album’s title is not arbitrary.
Lizzo connected it directly to her breakout 2019 single “Truth Hurts“, which carried the now-iconic line “I’m 100% that bitch,” and to a lineage of women in music who used the word as a vehicle for confidence rather than shame. “Reclaiming the word Bitch is power,” she said in a statement. “It’s taking a label once used to diminish women and turning it into a declaration of confidence, and unapologetic self-love. So many incredible women in music have used the word for positivity like Meredith Brooks and Missy Elliott. It was only fitting to name my album Bitch because it has become my favorite word when using it on my own terms and because I am 100% that bitch.” The title track itself carries that lineage forward, interpolating Meredith Brooks’ 1997 hit of the same name.
A Four-Year Road to Reclamation
Bitch marks Lizzo’s first proper studio album since 2022’s Special, and the path here was anything but direct. In February 2025, she announced Love in Real Life as her next project, releasing singles “Still Bad” and the title track. Both failed to gain commercial traction, and in a frank profile with New York Magazine last year, Lizzo called “Still Bad” “overproduced” and “overthought.” She ultimately shelved the record after a candid conversation with her label. “I sat down at the table and I said, ‘I need to do shit my way starting from now.
And I need y’all to have my back. It’s going to be a little scary.’ And everybody agreed, and they said, ‘We got your back, whatever you need.'” That reset produced the fiery 2025 rap mixtape My Face Hurts From Smiling, and now Bitch. The surviving bridge between both eras is “Don’t Make Me Love U,” the disco-leaning lead single released on March 20, which appears as track three on the new album. Speaking to Rolling Stone last June, Lizzo described the project as her “pop, rock, rap genre of music,” adding that it is “a little moodier, a little darker” and “talks about the dark times,” a likely reference to the 2023 lawsuits brought by three former backup dancers alleging sexual harassment, racial harassment, and disability discrimination. A separate suit filed by former tour employee Asha Daniels was dismissed in December 2024.
What Comes Next for Lizzo
The album’s 12-track listing spans titles including “Happy 2 Be,” “She Stole My Man,” “Whose Hair Is This,” “Little Black Cat,” “Sexy Ladies,” “That GRRRL,” “Too Nice,” “Like a Crime,” and “Goodmorning!” Neither “Love in Real Life” nor “Still Bad” appear on the record, confirming that Bitch represents a full creative overhaul rather than a retitled holdover. Beyond music, Lizzo is set to star in the Amazon MGM Studios biopic Rosetta, where she will portray Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the pioneering gospel and blues guitarist widely regarded as the godmother of rock and roll. She is also releasing a children’s book, Lil Lizzo Meets Sasha B. Flootin’, on September 8.
Bitch is available for pre-order now. For an artist who spent the better part of two years navigating public scrutiny and creative detours, the album’s title sounds less like provocation and more like a precise, well-earned declaration.
