Lizzo Is On the Charts with All Systems on Go, Lensed by Campbell Addy for Vanity Fair AOC Fashion

We’re late to Lizzo’s November 2022 Vanity Fair US cover story event — and what a reading experience it is. Now that New York’s Governors Ball has announced Lizzo in its 2023 edition June 9-11 at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, it’s time we do some serious Lizzo duty.

The uber talent well on her way to becoming a super star is making waves across America, and we’re here for it. Vanity Fair November was a long-interview pit stop with Lisa Robinson and it came with a perfect title: ‘Everything’s coming up Lizzo, and it’s about damn time.’ [It’s too late for AOC to gift the article but hopefully you can read it.]

Lizzo was styled by the one and only Patti Wilson, with photography by Campbell Addy [IG]. / Hair by Shelby Swan; makeup by Alex Mayo

Lizzo Talks Brass Tacks

The interview happened in July and it’s been a wild ride for Lizzo ever since. At AOC business is business and Lizzo immediately got down to politics in her interview. Grade A love to Lizzo for that move.

Following that the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, Lizzo donated $500,000 to Planned Parenthood and the National Network of Abortion Funds, and she had Live Nation, her tour promoter, match that with another $500,000.

Lizzo is outspoken about just about everything, and we will adopt her choice words about the state of key, majority-support issues in America. “Thoughts and prayers just don’t fucking cut it anymore,” she says.

Lizzo is clear that she’s not condemning the Biden administration. “I’m just very curious as to what kind of real steps they can take.”

Americans answered that question in November, 2022, but it didn’t send any warning message to Republicans in Congress who still don’t agree that President Biden is legitimately elected.

This next paragraph will cause some sighs, but this is Lizzo’s pov and she’s entitled to it.

I’m writing and switching paragraphs around so that this next tough-talking paragraph from her Vanity Fair interview is followed by Lizzo’s 2021 TEDMonterey Talk.

“The Supreme Court has politicized law and made it a weapon against human rights,” she adds. “An overwhelming amount of people did not agree with what the Supreme Court did. It’s about power and control. It’s about white male supremacy; it’s always been about white male supremacy in this country and the people who are complicit in helping uphold it—who are a lot of white women. The women who voted for Donald Trump. The façade that ‘America, we’re all in this together.’ No, we’re not. Black people have been dehumanized so much—especially Black women. I’d like to be an optimist, but I’m a chronically disappointed optimist,” she continues. “The way Black women have been treated in this country has made me feel very hopeless. I don’t think there was a time when [we] were treated fairly and with respect. If I see hope in this country, it will come from the accountability of the people who have the privilege. As a fat Black woman, this country has never gone forward; it’s stayed pretty much the same for me.”

Lizzo Takes TWO Really Big Stages

We have many levels of TED Talks today, and this is the real deal original TED Talk, and Lizzo cannot believe she is on stage to make the case for twerking at TEDMonterey.

I’ve watched the entire TED presentation, and Lizzo is just great.

If you are a white woman who thinks she sounds a little bit too hostile in her VF interview, consider her flute playing at the Library of Congress on September 26.

I am so disturbed over what happened, I probably would have gone to jail.