Lizzo Announces Bitch, Drops Title Track and Declares a “B!TCH Summer”

Lizzo has officially announced her new album Bitch, ending a rollout that’s felt intentionally drawn out and, at times, heavy with subtext. After a long stretch marked by legal battles and public scrutiny, she started signaling a reset last year with Love in Real Life and a pointed farewell to her Special era: “Bye Bitch.” Now the new era has a name, a release date, and a mission statement.

Alongside the album news, she released the title track, Bitch, plus a black-and-white visual directed by child. The song is produced by Ricky Reed, Blake Slatkin, and Zack Sekoff, and it pulls from two late-’90s touchstones: Missy Elliott’s She’s A Bitch and Meredith Brooks’ Bitch. Lizzo opens with a tense, direct verse — “I heard what you saying/ Goddamn, I let it get to me/ You want me to be everything except a human being” — before the chorus leans hard into the Brooks interpolation.

She also used the release to frame what she’s calling “B!TCH summer”, posting a statement about the double standards women are expected to navigate in public and private life.

“This song is dedicated to the women who get called a bitch for having boundaries, for being sexual, for speaking up for themselves, for working hard and owning businesses…

If we don’t smile and perform all the time we’re ‘ungrateful’

If we run a strict program we’re ‘mean’

If we enjoy sex we’re ‘sluts’ and shamed

This WOMANIFESTO is a declaration of independence from the bullsh*t

It’s a B!TCH summer.”

The announcement lands after a stop-start comeback run that included multiple singles and a mixtape, and it makes clear she’s not easing into this next phase. Bitch arrives June 5.