For the American Lizzo, the world of music comes a long way.
Pop, rap, hip-hop, blues, rock... According to the singer, the classification of music into genres has its origins in a racist approach.
“I think if people did some research, they would see there was racialized music and pop music
,” she told
Entertainment Weekly
.
Lizzo, who rose to prominence with the hits
Juice
and
About Damn Time
, has very specific ideas on the matter.
"This racialized music, it was a way of excluding black artists from the mainstream because they didn't want their children to listen to music created by people with black or brown skin, because they said that it was demonic”,
she explains.
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With her music, a mixture of many influences which notably borrows the codes of rap, and despite a career marked by periods of absence, the 34-year-old singer has for nearly ten years made herself a place of choice on the pop scene. American.
Despite her reservations, Lizzo knows what she owes the music industry.
"Today we have this well-oiled pop machine, but don't forget that it has a racist origin
," she admits to qualify her remarks.
The borders between the genres that dominate the music market today are also increasingly blurred, she judges.
“The coolest thing I've seen is rap and hip-hop artists going pop.
Now pop music really has rap in its DNA – rap drives the game, and I think that's really cool
,” she said.
Good news for her fans: from December 31, a special concert by the singer and rapper will be posted on the American streaming platform, HBO.