'Beyonce has her work cut out for her later this month, because, in Lizzo's great tradition of being extra, she's come out with an album that feels like it provides all the clubby, poppy endorphins a populace needs for a single summer.'
as her collaborator and you’ve got an international rogues’ gallery of producers who are nearly superstars in their own right — all of whom prove smart at doing what they do best without ever looking to nudge the singer an inch from center spotlight.
And there’s your closest thing to a slow, sad song, which is not very close at all. For just about all the remaining tracks, she’s straining a confessional cheerfulness into different kinds of dance-oriented tracks, many of them recalling more organic distant eras of R&B, a few more in the compressed here-and-now. The neo-disco force is strong, as anyone coming into the album from the lead single “About Damn Time” will have already sussed.
But this is all getting ahead of ourselves, as the album starts off with “The Sign,” a proper introduction to a record — and an outsize persona — if ever there was one: “Hi, motherfucker, did you miss me? / I’ve been home since 2020 / I’ve been twerkin’ and makin’ smoothies / It’s called healing.” There is a big part of Lizzo’s charisma in four lines: part Cardi B-style cuss-master, part Oprah-ready self-help guru, part sex goddess, part the master of the hilariously mundane detail.
Even “2 Be Loved ,” the most maximal of the Max tracks, which has an old-fashoned Big Key Change going into the last chorus, doesn’t longer a second longer than necessary after that updraft. Lizzo doesn’t like being laden down with cumbersome song lengths any more than she does with, you know, clothes.
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