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Loving yourself is work.
Being your own guide is exhausting.
They dont necessarily teach this in school.
We rehearsed so much that the lyrics are still branded in my brain.
As a 5-year-old, I thought I was singing a happy song.
The children are our future.
I didnt grasp what I was saying.
Im only just now starting to get what it means, some 30 years later.
You have to be your own quarterback and your own cheerleader sometimes.
Believing that youre better than the worst that you hear about yourself is a job all to itself.
Lizzo makes all of this sound fun.
Dress and Scuse Me into an encouraging message of peace and self-love.
Lizzos confidence is a ray beam.
Its a wild way to use X Ambassadors, who back Lizzo on three tracks here.
OnCry Baby,shes an annoyed lover and a fierce rock-band leader.
OnTempo,shes a formidable partner-in-rhyme for the legendary Missy Elliott.
The range is impressive.
Lizzo resists labels, both creatively and quite literally in thesecond verseof the food/sex rap workout Better in Color.
Lizzo whoops and chortles through these beats with unnatural ease.
Gucci Mane can barely keep up on Exactly How I Feel.
She can make lounging around in underwear sound revelatory.
She can make masturbation seem like a political act.
If youre having a rough weekwatching the rule of law crumble, letCuz I Love Yourebuild your mettle.
