Lizzo sets record straight over Swift drama

US star Lizzo has set the record straight amid claims of a feud between herself and Taylor Swift during the opening night of her tour Down Under.

The About Damn Time singer kicked off the first of her five Australian shows at the RAC Arena in Perth on Friday night, where she performed all her hit songs along with a cover of her “favourite” band Coldplay’s song Yellow.

At one point during the concert, Lizzo, 35, spotted a fan holding up a sign which read “I chose you over Taylor”, in an obvious reference to Swift.

“I’m going to start off be saying thank you for coming to my show, I know tickets are expensive to everybody’s shows, so it means the world to me that you’re here,” she told the concertgoer.

“Taylor Swift is amazing as well … I heart Tay Tay too, there’s no competition here.”

📹 | A fan at a Lizzo concert held up a sign saying “I chose you over Taylor” and Lizzo responded to it on stage

— “I heart TayTay too, there’s no competition here”
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— Taylor Swift News (@TSwiftNZ) July 14, 2023

It comes after Lizzo sparked outrage among Swifties earlier this month after a comment during her Instagram Live was perceived to be a dig at the All Too Well singer.

“The most popular person of today ain’t even comparable to what Beyonce is doing,” Lizzo shared in the video to her 13.5 million followers.

Many assumed she meant Swift, who’s fame and popularity is currently hitting a peak amid record-breaking sales for her The Eras tour and the chart-topping re-releases of her albums.
 

Next up, Lizzo will head to Melbourne for two shows on at Rod Laver Arena on Monday and Tuesday night, before performing at Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena on July 23 and 24.

She’s also a headliner at this year’s Splendour in the Grass in Byron Bay.

Lizzo has built a lucrative career after her song Truth Hurts was featured in the romantic comedy Someone Great, catapulting her into pop superstardom.

She also has a shapewear line called Yitty “designed for all body types” and, in 2022, launched the Emmy-winning Prime Video reality show Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls, in which she searches for plus-size dancers to join her on tour.
 

Last month, the popular singer made the shock announcement that she may quit the industry over incessant fat-shaming amid a series of vicious Twitter comments.

The Grammy-winning artist has long been an advocate of body positivity, celebrating plus-size women in her live performances and shooting down trolls who make frequent comments about her weight.

But after a recent encounter with yet more fat-shaming comments, Lizzo grew visibly frustrated and said she was close to quitting her music career.

“I HATE IT HERE,” the singer wrote in a series of tweets.

“Y’all don’t know how close I be to giving up on everyone and quitting and enjoying my money and my man on a f***ing farm,” she continued.

The Good As Hell singer was responding, in part, to a fat-shaming post from bitcoin investor Layah Heilpern, which included a video of the artist dancing onstage and was captioned: “How is Lizzo still THIS fat when she’s constantly moving this much on stage?! I wonder what she must be eating”, alongside the laughing emoji.

“I JUST logged on the app and this is the type of s**t I see about me on a daily basis,” Lizzo wrote in response.

“Then someone in the comments said I eat ‘lots of fast food.’ I LITERALLY STOPPED EATING FAST FOOD YEARS AGO. I’m tired of explaining myself all the time and I just wanna get on this app w/out seeing my name in some bulls**t.”