April 5, 2025 • 11 mins
Lizzo joins #MostRequestedLive and talks Severance (spoilers!), Saturday Night Live, Love in Real Life, being "over the world", which song she wishes she wrote (shout out billie eilish!) and more with Bennett in this exclusive interview.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Ladies and gentlemen. Lizzo is back do yat with Bennett.
I'm most great.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Questioned by what's going on? Going to see you? Did
to see you?
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Congrats on still bad this album. I'm hearing about Rosetta.
I mean, we got SNL coming up, we got a birthday,
we got a lot to talk about in a small
window of time. Uh, But the most important question I
have for you? Did you finish severance yet?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I did? I did finish Severance, Yo. I'm I'm one
of the fans that are a little like I have
notes I am because I'm like, where are y'all running to?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Why are you?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I was so confused, So anyway, that was me yelling,
and I was just like so hurt for Jimma, so
so so.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Home, heartbroken for huh, heartbroken for her, heartbroken.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
For Jima because she doesn't even know he's severed. Then
I was mad at Milkcheck because I was like, boy,
you couldn't get out of that damn bathroom. I love
Milkcheck though. He Milkshake is like one of my favorite
written characters in a very very long time.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
So oh, he's a vibe and he showed out in
that last episode too, but I was singing the same thing,
like where are they running to? It's just like a
bunch of random white hallways. Are they gonna run.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Into the goats?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Like?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I have no idea what's going on.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
But it's kind of romantic beautiful, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, we could talk all day about Severn's but it's
still bad. Man.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
This song is so good, and I wanted to tell
you because what I love most about music is like
what it makes you feel? Right Like, I like music
that makes me feel something. I don't care what that
feeling is. Just make me feel something. I hear a
Lizzo song, I just feel free, Like I feel so free,
And I'm trying to articulate in my head because I
(02:03):
don't know what this feeling is, but I would imagine
hearing your music is like what women feel like when
they take their bra off after.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
A long day. Does that make any sense? I'm seated.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I don't wear I sell bras, but I don't really
wear them like that. All my bras are very comfortable.
Shout out YETI dot com But you know, you know
what it feels like? I canna, I canna can it
to taking out a type ponytail. Okay, I think it's
(02:37):
taking out a type ponytail and uh and you know
what I think, any I think everybody's feeling is gonna
be different too, because I think everybody's situation is different.
And that's why I wrote the song the way that
I did, because like, you can interpret it so many
different ways. Like I wrote it as a breakup song
with the world because I was over the world and
(02:59):
the world I feel like didn't deserve me and treated
me dirty and less than I deserve, and I was like,
I'm stepping out, we're breaking up, We're no contact, and
if you want to come back into my life, you're
gonna have to earn me. Some people might hear that
as they don't they're in a relationship they don't want
to be in anymore like a romantic one. Some people
(03:21):
might hear that as a friendship, you know what I mean.
Some people may hear that as the government. Some people
may you know what I mean. It can be so
many different things to so many different people. So I'm
glad you feel freedom.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I feel free.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Any type of Lizod song, I'm like, I just feel good,
Like it's like with those means it's like laptop clothes
on Friday, like you're done for the work week. It's
like you always like give those vibes, and so you're
talking about how you broke up with the world. Is
that kind of like the premise of this album?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Like we are we taught? Are we going all in
there for the album or is it?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Yes? I do think that there are lots of like
it's like real life scenarios that happened to me. And
a lot of the songs feel like breakup songs in
the first half not gonna lieu, and then the second
half it starts to get into a place of reconciliation
to be continued.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I like this, mm hmmm.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
So how many songs have you created for this album
so far? Like I'm just kind of curious how many,
how many put together? And like how many you have
to like put away to the side because they just
so maybe fit this album.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I write so many songs, It's like it and I
love writing. That's my favorite part is like you know,
cause we get into like I mean, I like producing too.
I like sitting and like listening to the same kick
drum over and over and over and being like okay,
but writing the song is just like when my heart
is like racing and I'm and I'm truly just in love.
(04:51):
So I've written and I and I also have a
process where I need to write at least forty to
eighty songs before I get the songs that even make
the album. Oh wow, So I think I had about
I'm trying to remember the exact number. I think I
played forty for my label, but I had more than
that because a lot of them were like unfinished or
(05:13):
demos that I was like, Okay, this isn't even label worthy.
So I at least played forty songs for my label
before they were just like, hey, figure out what you're
doing and then get back to us. So I mean,
i'd say probably like close to one hundred songs.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
That's incredible.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
So like, are you the type of writer that like
you have an idea at the airport and you're like
voice notes, like you're just constantly thinking of different hooks
or ideas for a song.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Is that kind of like you're absolutely I have.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I've got voice memos of like a whole hook and
I can't wait for the album to come out because
I'm gonna share all of those things, but also love
in real life. The name of this album came to me,
and this has never happened before. I always named my
album like retro actively, I'll be like, oh yeah, special,
(06:03):
that feels like the emotional epicenter of this album. This
album is called Special or because I Love You. That
feels like the emotional epicenter. It's gonna be called because
I Love You. This time, I had Love and Real
Life as a title before i'd even written the song.
I've written like for Love and Real Life, before I
finally settled on this love and real Life that the
world now knows and loves. So yeah, I thought that
(06:26):
was that was that that was a little different for me.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Yeah, that's really interesting. And I do love the title
track because it's a little bit different from you. Right,
It's like that that rock and roll edge, which was
like real like refreshing to hear after a couple of
years of uh, you know, not hearing from you.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
And that kind of leads to this Rosetta movie that
I know.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
That you're super excited about because not only are you
starring in it, but you're producing it.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Just tell me, uh, just how important this project is
to you.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Oh my gosh, this is a life dream, passion project.
It feels like a lifetime in the making, even the
way that I like kind of triangulated with my producing
partner Nina bon Jovi, like we both had the same
idea at the same time, and then eventually it just
(07:14):
took a few years for us to get together and
be like, oh my gosh, I want to make this movie.
I want to make this movie. We're gonna make this movie.
And we just like we just went in the rooms
and I was just like, I have to pitch her.
I have to picture as the rock star she is.
I have to make this. I don't even have to
try to make her life seem cinematic. Her life was
so exciting and so cool and so never before seen
(07:38):
in so groundbreaking, and we just have to convince people
that it's the film that's it to make it, And
we finally landed on it with MGM, and it's just
the beginning, like we just announced the partnership, but like
we're about to get into scripts, directors, casting, all of it.
(07:59):
Like I'm so freaking excited. It's it's it's a passion
project for sure, and you always know what passion projects
is gonna be good.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
For sure, because you're giving it all of you, right,
I mean, that's what you always do, no matter what
you are pouring yourself into.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Are you going after that egot? Is that? Does that
mean something to you? Because you got the you got
the eg.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I got eggs and I with the You know, I
I don't think about the e I didn't think about
Emmy's when I was making Watch Out for the Big Girls.
I wasn't thinking about Grammys when I made Because I
Love You or Special. So I'm not gonna think about
Oscars when I make this Rosetta biopic. I'm thinking about
Rosetta sarp I'm thinking about how this woman literally revolutionized
(08:46):
American pop music by creating the rock and roll sound
from her gospel roots and from her learning how to
play guitar like folk guitar and turning that into electric
guitar single handedly well double handedly out of use on
her own. And her story is so important to me
(09:07):
and to music and to the world. And it's my
job to just let the world know that they just
don't know it yet. And I'm taking this very serious.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Oh, I know, I know I can tell. And you
got SNL coming up, Are you gonna slide into a sketch.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
If they'll have me? Like, I am so insane when
I love to do everything, Like when I did Double Duty,
I was literally in every single sketch, like I was
even in Weekend Update, and then they like they scrapped
me from Weekend Update last minute after the first run through,
and I was.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Like, damn it.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
But I was like, my goal is to be in
every sketch, and I damn there almost was. But yeah,
I mean i'd love to you know, I love to
crack a joker too.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
We always end on the song you wish you wrote,
any song recently that's given me some inspiration while you're
putting together this this new album.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
I wish I wrote, you know a song I wish
I wrote, Well, wish I wrote It's crazy, But there's
there's really really give me three seconds. I promise you
give me three seconds, and I have a good answer, pree.
There's only one song that I'm thinking about right now,
and what was I made for? It's just by Billie
Eilish is just so good. It's just so good. And
(10:25):
a song like that hasn't like made me feel the
way I felt in a long time, so I gotta
give it to miss Eilish.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I love that answer. I cried when I saw her
perform that live. My wife has video of it. It's
very embarrassing, but I like to feel things. I like
to feel.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
No, you allow yourself to feel, and I appreciate you
for that.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
We need pisces. It just comes naturally.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Oh, then you're terrifying you feel too much. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
I love you, Lizzo.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
I'm just so happy that you know we're playing and
your music still bad is so good. I can't wait
hear this album, the movie SNL. Your birthday is coming up.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Have your birthday. Thank you all the things.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I appreciate you. Thank you for spending your time with me.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Oh man, it's been a pleasure. Always good catching up Lizzo.
Wishing nothing but the best.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Thank you,
Ladies and gentlemen. Lizzo is back do yat with Bennett.
I'm most great.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Questioned by what's going on? Going to see you? Did
to see you?
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Congrats on still bad this album. I'm hearing about Rosetta.
I mean, we got SNL coming up, we got a birthday,
we got a lot to talk about in a small
window of time. Uh, But the most important question I
have for you? Did you finish severance yet?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I did? I did finish Severance, Yo. I'm I'm one
of the fans that are a little like I have
notes I am because I'm like, where are y'all running to?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Why are you?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I was so confused, So anyway, that was me yelling,
and I was just like so hurt for Jimma, so
so so.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Home, heartbroken for huh, heartbroken for her, heartbroken.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
For Jima because she doesn't even know he's severed. Then
I was mad at Milkcheck because I was like, boy,
you couldn't get out of that damn bathroom. I love
Milkcheck though. He Milkshake is like one of my favorite
written characters in a very very long time.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
So oh, he's a vibe and he showed out in
that last episode too, but I was singing the same thing,
like where are they running to? It's just like a
bunch of random white hallways. Are they gonna run.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Into the goats?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Like?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I have no idea what's going on.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
But it's kind of romantic beautiful, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, we could talk all day about Severn's but it's
still bad. Man.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
This song is so good, and I wanted to tell
you because what I love most about music is like
what it makes you feel? Right Like, I like music
that makes me feel something. I don't care what that
feeling is. Just make me feel something. I hear a
Lizzo song, I just feel free, Like I feel so free,
And I'm trying to articulate in my head because I
(02:03):
don't know what this feeling is, but I would imagine
hearing your music is like what women feel like when
they take their bra off after.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
A long day. Does that make any sense? I'm seated.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I don't wear I sell bras, but I don't really
wear them like that. All my bras are very comfortable.
Shout out YETI dot com But you know, you know
what it feels like? I canna, I canna can it
to taking out a type ponytail. Okay, I think it's
(02:37):
taking out a type ponytail and uh and you know
what I think, any I think everybody's feeling is gonna
be different too, because I think everybody's situation is different.
And that's why I wrote the song the way that
I did, because like, you can interpret it so many
different ways. Like I wrote it as a breakup song
with the world because I was over the world and
(02:59):
the world I feel like didn't deserve me and treated
me dirty and less than I deserve, and I was like,
I'm stepping out, we're breaking up, We're no contact, and
if you want to come back into my life, you're
gonna have to earn me. Some people might hear that
as they don't they're in a relationship they don't want
to be in anymore like a romantic one. Some people
(03:21):
might hear that as a friendship, you know what I mean.
Some people may hear that as the government. Some people
may you know what I mean. It can be so
many different things to so many different people. So I'm
glad you feel freedom.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I feel free.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Any type of Lizod song, I'm like, I just feel good,
Like it's like with those means it's like laptop clothes
on Friday, like you're done for the work week. It's
like you always like give those vibes, and so you're
talking about how you broke up with the world. Is
that kind of like the premise of this album?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Like we are we taught? Are we going all in
there for the album or is it?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Yes? I do think that there are lots of like
it's like real life scenarios that happened to me. And
a lot of the songs feel like breakup songs in
the first half not gonna lieu, and then the second
half it starts to get into a place of reconciliation
to be continued.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I like this, mm hmmm.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
So how many songs have you created for this album
so far? Like I'm just kind of curious how many,
how many put together? And like how many you have
to like put away to the side because they just
so maybe fit this album.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I write so many songs, It's like it and I
love writing. That's my favorite part is like you know,
cause we get into like I mean, I like producing too.
I like sitting and like listening to the same kick
drum over and over and over and being like okay,
but writing the song is just like when my heart
is like racing and I'm and I'm truly just in love.
(04:51):
So I've written and I and I also have a
process where I need to write at least forty to
eighty songs before I get the songs that even make
the album. Oh wow, So I think I had about
I'm trying to remember the exact number. I think I
played forty for my label, but I had more than
that because a lot of them were like unfinished or
(05:13):
demos that I was like, Okay, this isn't even label worthy.
So I at least played forty songs for my label
before they were just like, hey, figure out what you're
doing and then get back to us. So I mean,
i'd say probably like close to one hundred songs.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
That's incredible.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
So like, are you the type of writer that like
you have an idea at the airport and you're like
voice notes, like you're just constantly thinking of different hooks
or ideas for a song.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Is that kind of like you're absolutely I have.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I've got voice memos of like a whole hook and
I can't wait for the album to come out because
I'm gonna share all of those things, but also love
in real life. The name of this album came to me,
and this has never happened before. I always named my
album like retro actively, I'll be like, oh yeah, special,
(06:03):
that feels like the emotional epicenter of this album. This
album is called Special or because I Love You. That
feels like the emotional epicenter. It's gonna be called because
I Love You. This time, I had Love and Real
Life as a title before i'd even written the song.
I've written like for Love and Real Life, before I
finally settled on this love and real Life that the
world now knows and loves. So yeah, I thought that
(06:26):
was that was that that was a little different for me.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Yeah, that's really interesting. And I do love the title
track because it's a little bit different from you. Right,
It's like that that rock and roll edge, which was
like real like refreshing to hear after a couple of
years of uh, you know, not hearing from you.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
And that kind of leads to this Rosetta movie that
I know.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
That you're super excited about because not only are you
starring in it, but you're producing it.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Just tell me, uh, just how important this project is
to you.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Oh my gosh, this is a life dream, passion project.
It feels like a lifetime in the making, even the
way that I like kind of triangulated with my producing
partner Nina bon Jovi, like we both had the same
idea at the same time, and then eventually it just
(07:14):
took a few years for us to get together and
be like, oh my gosh, I want to make this movie.
I want to make this movie. We're gonna make this movie.
And we just like we just went in the rooms
and I was just like, I have to pitch her.
I have to picture as the rock star she is.
I have to make this. I don't even have to
try to make her life seem cinematic. Her life was
so exciting and so cool and so never before seen
(07:38):
in so groundbreaking, and we just have to convince people
that it's the film that's it to make it, And
we finally landed on it with MGM, and it's just
the beginning, like we just announced the partnership, but like
we're about to get into scripts, directors, casting, all of it.
(07:59):
Like I'm so freaking excited. It's it's it's a passion
project for sure, and you always know what passion projects
is gonna be good.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
For sure, because you're giving it all of you, right,
I mean, that's what you always do, no matter what
you are pouring yourself into.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Are you going after that egot? Is that? Does that
mean something to you? Because you got the you got
the eg.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I got eggs and I with the You know, I
I don't think about the e I didn't think about
Emmy's when I was making Watch Out for the Big Girls.
I wasn't thinking about Grammys when I made Because I
Love You or Special. So I'm not gonna think about
Oscars when I make this Rosetta biopic. I'm thinking about
Rosetta sarp I'm thinking about how this woman literally revolutionized
(08:46):
American pop music by creating the rock and roll sound
from her gospel roots and from her learning how to
play guitar like folk guitar and turning that into electric
guitar single handedly well double handedly out of use on
her own. And her story is so important to me
(09:07):
and to music and to the world. And it's my
job to just let the world know that they just
don't know it yet. And I'm taking this very serious.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Oh, I know, I know I can tell. And you
got SNL coming up, Are you gonna slide into a sketch.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
If they'll have me? Like, I am so insane when
I love to do everything, Like when I did Double Duty,
I was literally in every single sketch, like I was
even in Weekend Update, and then they like they scrapped
me from Weekend Update last minute after the first run through,
and I was.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Like, damn it.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
But I was like, my goal is to be in
every sketch, and I damn there almost was. But yeah,
I mean i'd love to you know, I love to
crack a joker too.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
We always end on the song you wish you wrote,
any song recently that's given me some inspiration while you're
putting together this this new album.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
I wish I wrote, you know a song I wish
I wrote, Well, wish I wrote It's crazy, But there's
there's really really give me three seconds. I promise you
give me three seconds, and I have a good answer, pree.
There's only one song that I'm thinking about right now,
and what was I made for? It's just by Billie
Eilish is just so good. It's just so good. And
(10:25):
a song like that hasn't like made me feel the
way I felt in a long time, so I gotta
give it to miss Eilish.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I love that answer. I cried when I saw her
perform that live. My wife has video of it. It's
very embarrassing, but I like to feel things. I like
to feel.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
No, you allow yourself to feel, and I appreciate you
for that.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
We need pisces. It just comes naturally.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Oh, then you're terrifying you feel too much. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
I love you, Lizzo.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
I'm just so happy that you know we're playing and
your music still bad is so good. I can't wait
hear this album, the movie SNL. Your birthday is coming up.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Have your birthday. Thank you all the things.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I appreciate you. Thank you for spending your time with me.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Oh man, it's been a pleasure. Always good catching up Lizzo.
Wishing nothing but the best.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Thank you,
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