- 2025-04-14
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MUSIC
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Lizzo Performs “Love in Real Life/Still Bad Medley” & “Don't Make Me Love You” on Saturday Night Live
American singer-songwriter Lizzo appeared on Saturday Night Live to perform a medley of “Love in Real Life” and “Still Bad”, as well as a new song “Don't Make Me Love You”.
This marks her fourth appearance as a musical guest on Saturday Night Live.
“Love in Real Life” and “Still Bad” were released from her upcoming fifth studio album “Love in Real Life” in February and March, respectively.
“Don't Make Me Love You” is an unreleased song and also will be featured on the new album. This time, she premiered the song on Saturday Night Live.
Lizzo told Zane Lowe of Apple Music about “Love in Real Life” and “Still Bad”, “The Strokes were just such a huge inspiration. The Strokes were on the mood board for 'Love in Real Life'. I had been writing since like October 2023, wrote a lot of shit. Then I think I had a turning point in early 2024 with 'Love in Real Life' I wrote that song and was like, 'Whoa, this is it. Erase, scratch everything we did'. Starting with 'Love in Real Life' is the track one. That's where the rest of this kind of happened.”- She continued, “Recording 'Still Bad' was interesting because it started off as a country song and it was like, 'I don't need him, I need a drink. You know what I mean? I think this song is so interesting because like it was just, the sentiment was more important than the sound. The lyrics had to come from that, 'I lost my dog, I need some whiskey,' kind of like deep sadness or country kind of rhetoric.”
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The new album is expected to be released in 2025. It is her first album in three years since the 2022 album “Special”.
A press release describes the album as “This chapter is all about love, life, and Lizzo”.
Lizzo told Zane Lowe about the album, “I feel like I've also changed [in the past two years], and I've also promised to change. I've always promised my fans, I've always promised the world, I always promised myself that I would change because I owe it to myself. I am the best version of Melissa 'Lizzo' Jefferson right now. Not because of anything external or superficial, but because of the work that I've done on myself as a human being and the life that I've lived. I'm really proud of this version of myself. I cannot wait to just show her to the world and for people to get to know me for real this time.” - source : NBC
