![]() It’s an exuberant “fuck you” along the lines of elaborate job resignations or, if you’re a boring academic type who gets thrills from strongly worded letters, “quitlit.” And, as it turns out, this trend has a long history. Beyoncé’s “Love Drought.” Instead of a breakup ballad, I prefer to call pieces like Lizzo’s a breakup blast-one last callout to call attention to the fine, fine woman that some idiot has given up. By contrast, the artist presents herself as an assertive, emotionally in-touch, and self-assured catch, after all, as she says, “you coulda had a bad bitch.” In framing her iconic breakup song in this way, Lizzo follows a trend of styling a song about lost love as one of found singleness, which brings a woman freedom and confidence, rather than the wallowing and whiny, self-blaming breakup ballads of crooners past and present-think Beyoncé’s “Irreplaceable” vs. In either case, with this one line Lizzo puts all would-be lovers on blast for their fickle natures. It could also mean that men are great until they get ideas of grandeur in their heads, and want to find grass they perceive to be greener. “Why men great ‘til they gotta be great?” could relate to having the boldness to, as a subsequent line suggests, tell women the truth about their feelings in relationships rather than cowering behind text messages and vagaries. The first line of Lizzo’s chart-topping ode to making better choices, “Truth Hurts,” can be taken a few ways. ![]()
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