Lizzo chatted about some of her famous friends — from Harry Styles to SZA and Kehlani — while guesting on The Jennifer Hudson Show, a clip from which Billboard can exclusively premiere Monday (Feb. 23).
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On the upcoming episode of the talk show, the Yitty founder cackled when asked whether she or a certain One Direction alum is a better dancer. On the one hand, as Lizzo pointed out, Styles’ new “Aperture” music video features many memorable moments of aerodynamic choreography.
But on the other? “I’m gonna have to say I throw a– better than Harry Styles,” the “About Damn Time” hitmaker said of her friend, with whom she performed at his 2022 headlining Coachella set. “Sorry, Harry!”
Lizzo had a less difficult time deciding who she’d theoretically like to form a music group with. “I think this one’s easy, because we almost formed a band,” she told host Jennifer Hudson. “But SZA and Kehlani. It would be punk rock. We’d all have mohawks.”
Elsewhere in the exclusive clip — which comes ahead of the full episode’s premiere on Tuesday (Feb. 24) — the four-time Grammy winner bonds with the American Idol alum over the complexities of fame and shows off her new puppy, whom she named Anastasia. The interview comes just after Lizzo wrapped her mini-residency at the Blue Note Jazz Club in Los Angeles, where she played six shows across three nights Feb. 20-22.
The vocalist hasn’t dropped music since 2025, a year that saw her release singles such as “Love in Real Life” and “Still Bad” from an indefinitely delayed album titled Love in Real Life. Rather than unveiling the LP, Lizzo shared mixtape My Face Hurts From Smiling in June, telling Vulture a few months later that the original project “just wasn’t what [she] was feeling right now.”
“I was like, ‘I need to do s–t differently, and I don’t know what it is, but I’m going to just start following my instincts,’” she added at the time. “I sat down at the table [with my label], and I said, ‘I need to do s–t my way starting from now. And I need y’all to have my back. It’s going to be a little scary.’ And everybody agreed, and they said, ‘We got your back, whatever you need.’”
Watch Lizzo chat with Hudson in the exclusive clip above.
