Lizzo is releasing a new mixtape this Friday, the singer announced on Instagram Tuesday.
The 37-year-old artist posted the mixtape’s cover — her giving two censored-by-smiley-faces middle fingers to the camera — and a photo of the track list with the caption “‘My Face Hurts From Smiling’ – The mixtape – drops Friday.” Doja Cat and SZA are listed as features on the 13-track album.
The mixtape is seemingly in addition to her already planned studio album, Love in Real Life, which she announced earlier this year. The Hollywood Reporter reached out to Lizzo’s label for confirmation.
Her single of the same name was released in February, marking her return to music and the public eye. The rock-inspired pop song is the Grammy-winning artist’s first solo release in nearly three years; she hasn’t released an album since 2022 but did participate in the 2023 Barbie soundtrack. She released her second single, “Still Bad,” in March.
Lizzo has been teasing new music for quite some time. On Feb. 13, she posted an Instagram video of herself spray-painting and reciting “Bye Bitch” over her 2022 album, Special, with a caption that read: “End of an Era.”
The singer first teased new music on a December episode of Keke Palmer’s podcast, Baby, This is Keke Palmer. “My album is done. I’m so happy. People thought that I was on a gap year but mama was in the studio,” Lizzo said on the episode.
On that podcast, Lizzo also addressed the lawsuit filed against her by some of her tour dancers, who alleged they were sexually harassed and victims of a hostile workplace environment. “I was literally living in my dream, and then the tour ended, and three ex-dancers just completely, like, blindsided me with a lawsuit,” she said.
“You can ask me anything about it because I got dismissed from the case,” Lizzo told Palmer. “We’re continuing to fight the other claims until they’re all dismissed — not dropped, but dismissed,” she added, saying it was “a big victory.”
