Beyoncé confirmed some love for Lizzo throughout her Renaissance gig in Atlanta on Monday night time (Aug. 14). After beforehand showing to depart the “About Rattling Time” singer out of the lyrics to the “Break My Soul (The Queens Remix)” earlier on the tour after Lizzo was hit with a lawsuit from three former dancers accusing her of making a hostile surroundings and sexual harassment, Bey slotted Lizzo again in and added a shout out over the last of three gigs at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
“Lizzo. I like you, Lizzo!” Beyoncé shouted through the efficiency of the tune that finds her ticking off an inventory of legendary feminine artists together with Bessie Smith, her sister Solange, Erykah Badu, Janet Jackson, Lauryn Hill and plenty of others.
Only a week after being hit with the lawsuit from the previous dancers — which additionally included allegations that they have been pressured to the touch nude dancers throughout a reside intercourse present — the lawyer representing the three dancers mentioned final week that “we now have obtained at the least six inquiries from different folks with comparable tales since we filed the grievance.”
The unique grievance protecting alleged harassment that allegedly happened between 2021-2023, was filed on behalf of dancers Arianna Davis, Crystal Williams and Noelle Rodriguez. It accused Lizzo (born Melissa Jefferson) and her Massive Grrrl Massive Touring Inc. of a variety of authorized wrongdoing, together with racial and non secular discrimination. Additionally they included allegations that the captain of Lizzo’s dance crew, Shirlene Quigley, compelled her non secular beliefs on the plaintiffs and took repeated actions that made them uncomfortable, together with commenting on their virginity and simulating oral intercourse on a banana in entrance of them.
Lizzo denied the preliminary allegations in an announcement, wherein she wrote that they’re “false” and “sensationalized tales,” including, “I’m not the villain that folks and the media have portrayed me to be these previous few days. I’m very open with my sexuality and expressing myself however I can not settle for or enable folks to make use of that openness to make me out to be one thing I’m not.”
She mentioned that the allegations that she and her firm created a hostile work surroundings have been “unbelievable as they sound and too outrageous to not be addressed.” Beyoncé had pointedly left Lizzo’s title out of the reside efficiency of the “Break My Soul” remix throughout an Aug. 1 present in Massachusetts, repeating Badu’s title 4 instances as a substitute; she reportedly slotted the singer’s call-out again into the tune throughout a present in Maryland on Aug. 7. Bey’s mom, Tina Knowles, mentioned the obvious Lizzo pass over was not performed on goal, stating that the singer additionally overlooked former Future’s Little one member Kelly Rowland’s title that night time, whereas followers have famous that not each title within the remix makes it into each efficiency.
Lizzo has saved a low profile for the reason that lawsuit was filed and one of many solely exhibits she had on her upcoming roster, a headlining slot at this 12 months’s Made in America pageant in Philly (Sept. 2-3), was pulled final week when organizers unexpectedly cancelled the occasion — which was additionally slated to function SZA as a headliner — as a consequence of “extreme circumstances outdoors of manufacturing management.”
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