How Lizzo Turned A Voicemail From A Shitty Ex Into 'Truth Hurts'

in the event you missed it, Lizzo recently dished to Billboard about her career so far and why she plans on keeping the momentum going long into the future. However in some newly released footage from the shoot, the singer-rapper-flautist got even more personalized by beginning up about the voicemail that inspired her hit song “Truth Hurts.” And if you’ve ever had a shitty ex, you’ll most certainly have the ability to relate.


The voicemail, obviously, was a heartbreaking one. Soon after being told by the guy she was seeing that he had received back with his ex and to never contact him again, the “Juice” singer did what any sensible person would do: She blocked him on everything. However then, she had to head to the studio, which was something she was understandably dreading immediately after getting her heart damaged. “I didn’t aspire to go to the studio,” she recalled. “I was so furious and depressed and sad.”


In hindsight, it’s a good thing she went that day. Upon her arrival, Lizzo sat down and told producer Ricky Reed everything that transpired. And immediately after going on a rant about the Minnesota Vikings player in her DMs and having to wash her ex out of her hair, she realized that he was busy taking notes. Those notes would eventually turn out to be some of the song’s most iconic lyrics. “I’m talking all this shit and he’s scribbling,” she mentioned “… I look up and he shows me what he’s scribbling and it’s everything I’ve been saying, and he mentioned, ‘I hope you know you just wrote a song.’”


from then on, everything categorize kind of fell into place. Sure, she “hated” the beat at first, which was a sample from an artist named Tele, nevertheless once Reed added drums, Lizzo began to feel it. Then, the lyrics really started to flow. “I literally sort of went in the booth and laid down everything, verbatim, that I had mentioned about this person who'd hurt me,” she mentioned. Lizzo even compared it to playing tag, saying that she kept coming up with lyrics that she had to run back and forth into the booth to record. “I was like, ‘fuck, everything that’s coming out of my mouth is the song today. I don’t know what kind of magical honey was in my throat As soon as I woke up that morning, nevertheless shit!’”


Clearly, what started as a day she initially wanted no piece of turned into a day that changed the course of her life forever. “We put the hoe out two years back, and it also did good, a lot of people admired it,” she mentioned. “... Yet two years later, they put that shit in a Netflix movie [Something Great]. Right now the complete world noticed it. It's a hit record, baby. That's how hit records are made. They're made from the heart. They're made from tears. They're made from fears. And they're made from happy endings.”