"I've used sadness as a tool for gratitude." She's become an icon of self-love, but her journey to confidence wasn't easy. This is the story of Lizzo.
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00:00Lizzo, I don't know. I don't know how to describe her, man. She's crazy.
00:06She's got a lot of levels. She's deep. She's very deep, like the ocean.
00:12She's beautiful and talented and smart. I wish I was Lizzo.
00:30You're not going to listen to a Lizzo song and be like, you know what? Lizzo's going
00:42to change my life. No, you're going to change your life. You know what I'm saying? Because
00:46that's how I had to do it. I ain't have no fucking magic wand. You know, you just have
00:49to, you just got to do it yourself.
01:20This is Sasha Flute.
01:26Puberty didn't make me happy. Sweating a bunch and all of that shit. That sucked. I
01:33got teased. I got made fun of. I was sad. I didn't want to look like myself. I wanted
01:38to be somebody else. Like, that's just a part of it. You know, you look at magazines and
01:43you think of things you want to change. You think of things that you want to fix on your
01:47body. You feel like you don't belong in your friend group. You feel like the ugly one in
01:54your friends, the undesirable one. You feel like boys don't like you, girls don't like
01:58you. You don't even know what you like. It's hard. You know, we're confused.
02:17It's hard.
02:47How do you want to live your life? Do you want to be unhappy with yourself every fucking
03:16day? Or do you want to be happy with the body you were given and the person that you
03:22are? It's just accepting yourself.
03:33I was like, just so afraid. I was like, no one wants to hear what I have to say. No one
03:37wants to just look at me. And like, making solo music was so hard for me. And I would
03:42always be in these groups with my best friends and women that I thought were prettier than
03:45me and cooler than me and more interesting than me. And I mean, they are pretty and they
03:50are cool and they are interesting, but I would always put them on this pedestal like they
03:54deserved the spotlight more than I did.
04:15Oh, you got a problem? Get a solution.
04:46I use sadness so constructively in the last two years, ever since I've been working on
05:01being emotionally honest, I've used sadness as a tool for gratitude. It's humbling and
05:10I'm grateful that I'm able to feel these emotions because I know that because of this
05:22sadness, I'm going to be able to feel joy.
05:40I got to take my bra off. It hurts. The longer you deal with yourself, the more you accept
05:48it, you know, just like with anything, just like with that bra. You know, the longer I
05:54wear that bra, the more I'll deal with the pain. But, you know, you have a choice. You
05:58can take the bra off or you can live your whole life in pain. And I think that the bra
06:03is a metaphor of, you know, societal pressure to conform.
06:33Bye, bitch.