Lizzo dished on her reaction to being mentioned in Beyoncé‘s “Break My Soul — The Queens Remix” on the May 15 episode of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.
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After confirming she had absolutely no idea the name-drop was coming (“Beyoncé don’t give nobody no heads up! She is the queen of surprise drops!”), the singer revealed that she was actually on vacation in a “pretty remote” location when the track was released back in the summer of 2022.
“I thought somebody was messing with me,” Lizzo said about receiving the news via text. “And then, I was like, ‘OK, it’s in a song, maybe it’s quick’…And then when I found out what it actually was, it was her paying homage to all of the women who inspire her, that really moved me.
“And she put me in the family! I’m next to Kelly [Rowland], I’m next to Solange,” she continued, referencing her name being sandwiched between Queen Bey’s younger sister and her lifelong bestie and Destiny’s Child bandmate in the spoken word bridge.
Elsewhere in the track, which samples Madonna’s classic 1990 No. 1 hit “Vogue,” the Cowboy Carter icon shouts out everyone from trailblazers like Bessie Smith, Nina Simone, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Grace Jones to contemporaries like Michelle Williams, Alicia Keys and Rihanna.
“And by the way, it’s not like she just used me ’cause she needed someone — she said Grace Jones twice. That means she really wanted to say my name,” Lizzo concluded before launching into the hook of Destiny’s Child’s 1999 hit she’d just inadvertently referenced. “I’m very, very honored to this day. I love her very, very much. And, yeah, I’m still gooped and gagged.”
Elsewhere during the show, the “Still Bad” songstress threw shade at an unnamed celebrity who treated her differently after she achieved success on the Billboard charts and even spilled some flirty bedroom secrets with host Andy Cohen.
Watch Lizzo recall the moment she found out about Beyoncé’s surprise name-check below.
