Lizzo is finally ready to release her new album, with the pop star revealing that her fifth LP, Bitch, will arrive on June 5.
On Instagram, Lizzo shared the album title and release date, as well as the cover art: A hand flipping a middle finger, though the offending digit has been replaced by an ebullient photo of Lizzo raising her hands with a big smile on her face. “Happy birthday to me!” Lizzo wrote in the caption, because today (April 27), is indeed her birthday. “Wanna get me a gift? Pre-order my album baby!!!!”
In a statement, Lizzo said of the album’s title, “Reclaiming the word Bitch is power — it’s taking a label once used to diminish women and turning it into a declaration of confidence, and unapologetic self-love. So many incredible women in music have used the word for positivity like Meredith Brooks and Missy Elliot. It was only fitting to name my album Bitch because it has become my favorite word when using it on my own terms and because I am 100% that bitch!”
Lizzo also revealed the track list for Bitch, though there aren’t any other details yet regarding collaborators or possible features. Bitch marks Lizzo’s first proper solo album in four years, following 2022’s Special, as well as her 2025 mixtape, My Face Hurts from Smiling.
Bitch will notably arrive in the place of Love in Real Life, the album Lizzo first announced back in February 2025. At the time, Lizzo released a pair of singles — the title-track and “Still Bad” — and performed a third unreleased song “Don’t Make Me You Love U” on Saturday Night Live. But the singles faced heavy criticism and failed to make a dent on the charts, and the album was never released.
In a big New York Magazine profile last year, Lizzo expressed some discontent with the early singles, calling “Still Bad” “overproduced” and “overthought,” and noting it and “Love in Real Life” were written in 2022. “By 2025, I’ve changed, the world has changed so much, and so much has happened,” Lizzo said. “And not that I felt disconnected from anything that I put out, because I created it, but it just wasn’t what I was feeling right now. I was like, I need to do shit differently and I don’t know what it is, but I’m going to just start following my instincts.”
Instead of Love in Real Life, Lizzo released the rap-heavy mixtape My Face Hurts From Smiling, last June. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Lizzo spoke about “reclaiming” some of the confidence she lost, and how her next album would be “a little moodier” and address “the dark times” — ostensibly referring to the ongoing legal battle with the ex-dancers, who’ve accused her of harassment. (Lizzo has denied the allegations.)
It’s unclear how much of the material on Bitch was originally intended for Love in Real Life, or if Lizzo completely overhauled the record. The LP takes its title from a song called “Bitch,” which Lizzo teased in her RS interview, but hasn’t released yet. Meanwhile, “Love in Real Life” and “Still Bad” don’t appear on the track list, but “Don’t Make Me Love U” — officially released as a single last month — will be on the record.
