Lizzo released her latest single “Still Bad” on Thursday, the second single off her upcoming fifth album Love In Real Life.
“Still Bad” sounds like vintage Lizzo, a funky upbeat pop track with the singer triumphantly getting over heartbreak as she declares she doesn’t “need him, I need a drink” as she looks to “turn pain into some champagne.” She co-wrote the song with Blake Slatkin, who co-produced “About Damn Time,” and her longtime collaborator Ricky Reed, the producer on most of her biggest hits including “Juice,” “Good as Hell” and “Truth Hurts.”
“Still Bad” follows “Love In Real Life,” the lead single and title track for her upcoming album, which doesn’t have a release date yet. Love in Real Life will be Lizzo’s first album since Special, which was nominated for a Grammy for album of the year.
The new single is the latest on Lizzo’s comeback since facing multiple sexual harassment lawsuits filed by some of her former employees back in 2023. She denied the claims and spoke about the allegations in a podcast interview with Keke Palmer back in December, telling Palmer that she was “blindsided.”
Lizzo played an underplay concert at the Wiltern in Los Angeles on Wednesday night, her first show since the lawsuits were filed. She spoke about difficulties of the past several years during her Wiltern set set, telling the crowd that she was “so heartbroken by the world and so deeply hurt that I didn’t want to live anymore.”
She will play another intimate concert at Irving Plaza in New York on March 16 and a third in Minneapolis at First Avenue on March 18.