Review: Pink and Lizzo make mature, non-icky empowerment pop
by Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times
Apr 25, 2019
3 minutes
Pink and Lizzo both begin their new albums with funny, blaring, slightly rough-edged retro-R&B numbers in which each woman addresses a man who's done her wrong - or is sure to in the future.
In Pink's "Hustle," she's warning such a manipulator against trying it again. "You took my love, mistook it for weakness," she sings over a jumping juke-joint groove, "I guarantee I won't repeat this."
Lizzo's "Cuz I Love You," with a brass-and-piano arrangement
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