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15 July 2022

Lizzo fans react to the singer’s new song ‘Everybody’s Gay’: ‘For the gays and the clubs!’

“Everybody's gay, yeah, it’s a happy place in here, baby, you’re safe” she sings.

By Emily Maskell

Words: Emily Maskell; pictures: Atlantic Records

If you are in search of a new feel-good track, Lizzo’s got you covered with ‘Everybody’s Gay.’

The eighth track on the singer’s fourth studio album, Special, released Friday (15 July) is an instant bop with her powerhouse vocal range and endlessly catchy lyrics.

On the upbeat track, the Grammy-winning performer sings about her excitement to go out, let her hair down and live the night on “demon time”.

The chorus is an eruption of energy as Lizzo sings: “Dance the night away (Keep your p***y poppin’, pop those percolates). Everybody’s gay, yeah (It’s a happy place in here, baby, you’re safe). We can take our mask off. We can all ball and parlay. I can hardly wait.”

“I wanted to write a fantasy song, like one of those Hollywood songs where you’re taken away to a picture that I’m painting, a dream sequence kind of thing,” Lizzo told Apple Music about ‘Everybody’s Gay’, calling the track the “centerpiece of the album”.

“And no, when I sing ‘Take your mask off,’ I didn’t mean your N95,” she adds. “I meant like the mask of the person that you have to uphold when you’re out in the world, the mask that protects your true self. Take that off, because we accept you for who you are in this space.”

The 34-year-old told debuted the song at Drag Race‘s Kornbread’s tribute show in West Hollywood to perform the new song to an adoring crowd.

 
 
 
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Lizzo has long fostered a supportive and empowering relationship with the LGBTQ+ community, “I’ve always been so connected to the Queer community. Drag Queens were the first people who put my music on, and saw my music, and identified heavily with it in the beginning,” she said speaking to CHANNEL Q.

Lizzo’s latest album also includes the singer’s hit singles ‘Grrrls’ and ‘About Damn Time’, the former of which underwent a lyric change to rid the track of an ableist slur. 

Fellow pop star Lauren Jauregui, a former member of the girl group Fifth Harmony, tweeted “Im claiming Everybody’s Gay” after Lizzo announced Special’s tracklist.

Fans of Lizzo took to Twitter to share their love for ‘Everybody’s Gay’.

Entertainment critic Coleman Spilde tweeted: “kind of insane that a Lizzo song called “Everybody’s Gay” is somehow not the worst piece of hacky self-empowerment trash you’ve ever heard and is instead a crazy disco floor-burner with insane instrumentation and some of the sickest and slickest guitars i’ve heard all year”

One fan tweeted: “i don’t know what [Lizzo] put in this album, but i want it injected into my veins. 2 be loved (am i ready)?? everybody’s gay?? coldplay?? unreal” 

Another shared: “2022’s version of Thriller. For the gays and the clubs! Here for it! [Lizzo] this album is f*cking brilliant!!!!”

“YOU PUT YOUR WHOLE LIZZUSSY IN THIS ONE LETS DANCE” tweeted a fan with the link to the track ‘Everybody’s Gay’.

Lizzo’s new album Special is available to stream now.

The Attitude July/August issue is out now.

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