Lizzo Celebrates Her Birthday by Announcing New Album ‘Bitch’

By Jon Blistein

Jon Blistein

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album title and release date, as well as the cover art: A hand flipping a middle finger, though the offending digit has been replaced by an ebullient photo of Lizzo raising her hands with a big smile on her face.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!!!!”

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.”

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