Popcast, a New York Times podcast, the July 27, 2022 episode, “Lizzo’s Complicated, Joyful Pop” Prompts Me To Direct Message Its Host
Just finished listening to the Lizzo part of the recent, primarily Lizzo, Popcast. (These remarks respond to the July 2022 Popcast about Lizzo and her new album, Special . Listening to it before reading further will give good context, but isn’t essential. Spotify link to the episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7zyIVoetcF38FgDxe1hJbK?si=_lHBTyCxRUusgnmLRdPz2w (Originally written and sent July 30, 2022. Lightly edited, August 15, 2022.) (Sent as a direct message to the host, but not about the host personally, to whom I gave no indication I’d post the message publicly , so I won’t include the host’s name here.) Some things: I’m a 63 year old (puts me at the end of the Boomers) man who got excited by Lizzo before she hit, when first I heard “Good As Hell”. And I’ll tell you, it wasn’t and isn’t because she is “affirmative”. Several aspects to her performances and presentation attracted and attract me: What y’all (cynically?) call “her brand”, I experience as her presenting a