Lizzo hit with criticism after ‘shockingly low’ streams on new song

Lizzo has put out the title track off of her album Bit*h, which is set to drop next month on June 5 but has received surprisingly negative reactions.

The track, ironically, is a female empowerment anthem which is produced by Ricky Reed, Blake Slatkin, and Zack Sekoff, and interpolates Meredith Brooks’ 1997 song of the same name.

Along with the song, the Grammy winner also put out a black-and-white music video and the singer has explained it as an homage to women that get called the vulgar slang for having their boundaries, working hard, owning businesses and speaking up for themselves.

“This WOMANIFESTO is a declaration of independence from the bullsh*t. It’s a B!TCH summer,” Lizzo had stated about the single.

However, social media made the song go viral for an entirely different reason, with one X account reporting a day after Bit*h’s release that it had earned 7,232 streams on Spotify with its partial debut.

Another user fact-checked the information and noted that it had actually earned 73K streams, adding in the caption with the screenshot, “This isn’t much better but like this isn’t true…where are yall getting this from??”

A third netizen critiqued, “at some point she gotta realize we’re in 2026, not 2015. those uplifting self-love type of anthems don’t hit anymore,” as a fourth added, “it starts out pretty bad then you hear the interpolation and it gets impressively worse.”

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