Lizzo dialed into her unfiltered self for “My Face Hurts From Smiling,” letting her lyrics spill straight from the supply.

Lizzo lower unfastened on her third mixtape, My Face Hurts From Smiling, by ditching pop polish and refusing to revise her lyrics, thereby pushing her Hip-Hop persona to the forefront.

In a Billboard interview, Lizzo defined she usually reshapes her lyrics when crafting pop tracks, however this undertaking was a special story.

“That’s how I start with everything, it’s like a freestyle and it’s typically kind of rappity, and then I add melody, and then I go in and adjust the lyrics and then be like, can you say this in pop music?” she mentioned.

For My Face Hurts From Smiling, which dropped final month, she made a aware choice to let her lyrics lead and not using a filter.

“I think that was the biggest thing, like with this project, I’m like, the first thing that comes out my mouth Imma say it. I’m not gonna edit myself,” she added.

The mixtape, which highlights Lizzo’s rap roots extra immediately than her earlier LPs, additionally encompasses a visitor look from SZA on the music “IRL.”

The duo’s connection goes deeper than the music.

“There’s a lot of like genuine support and she’s one of the only people I can text at three in the morning when I’m crashing out,” mentioned Lizzo. “I really appreciate her ’cause she understands, and I think it’s really hard for you to have someone in your life who’s known you for a long time and also understands the world you’re in.”

The undertaking comes on the heels of Lizzo wrapping her fifth studio album Love in Real Life, which she confirmed she completed earlier this 12 months.

Although she has already launched the singles “Love in Real Life” and “Still Bad,” there’s no confirmed launch date for the entire album.

The mixtape My Face Hurts From Smiling was launched in April.

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