Beyonce Skips Over Lizzo’s Name During ‘Break My Soul’ Performance Following Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
usmagazine.comBeyoncé appeared to make a statement at the Renaissance World Tour following the sexual harassment allegations against Lizzo.During her Tuesday, August 1, performance in Boston, Beyoncé, 41, skipped over Lizzo’s name while performing the song “Break My Soul (The Queens Remix).” Though Lizzo’s name still appeared on the stage’s big screen along with the likes of Nina Simone, Kelly Rowland, Lauryn Hill and more Black female entertainers, Beyoncé sang over the lyric by repeating Erykah Badu’s last name four times.“Beyoncé reiterating Badu and skipping Lizzo… that’s on hitting 2 birds with 1 stone,” a fan captioned a clip of the performance via X (formerly known as Twitter), referring to Badu’s recent comments that Beyoncé copied a signature black hat look of hers for the tour.Lizzo, 35, previously shared a clip of her tearful reaction to hearing Beyoncé sing her name during one of the tour’s Poland performances. “In that moment I was thinking about baby me, listening to Happy Face by destiny’s child and crying myself to sleep because of bullies,” Lizzo captioned the June Instagram clip.She continued: “I thought about Beyoncé jumping into the room where Tina Turner was waiting to meet her for the first time.
I think of what we all mean to people and how cyclical it is. We are all so infinitesimally and maximally connected and significant.
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