Lizzo gets brutally honest after her new album misses the mark

Lizzo isn't pretending her latest album rollout went exactly as planned—and she's being refreshingly honest about how much it stung.

Speaking on the June 28 episode of Swiftologist's Proto Pop, the Grammy winner admitted she expected a much bigger debut for B---h after hitting her pre-save target.

“I had all of these high hopes for what we would do the first week,” Lizzo admitted, “and it didn't match.”

She continued, “I was so excited ‘cause I met my pre-save goal. And then it dropped and I was like, ‘Oh, OK, this isn't what I kind of thought it would kind of be.’”

According to Luminate, via Rolling Stone, the album sold around 3,000 units in its first week before slipping to roughly 650 in week two—far from the chart success of 2022's Special.

The numbers hit hard.

“There was like, 24 hours of my life where I based my success and my worth on a number,” Lizzo shared. “And I think that was soul-crushing."

Luckily, one unexpected phone call helped pull her out of that mindset.

"SZA called me. She was like, ‘Hey, you're on my mind.' And I was like, ‘Am I a failure?’” Lizzo recalled. “And she was like, ‘Oh my God, no.' She's so sweet.”

That conversation changed everything.

"I meditated and I prayed on it and I was like, ‘This is why I don't judge myself and my success or my impact on numbers,’” she explained. “This is why I don't do that, because it's soul-crushing if you do.”

Now, Lizzo says B---h is still some of her “best stuff,” calling it “a stepping stone in the right direction” and insisting, “I had to course correct my destiny and my career because people were trying to veer it off my path, and I will never let that happen.”