Lizzo tells fan to “grow up” after being accused of shading Taylor Swift: “I’ve never talked shit about any artist”

two side by side photographs of Lizzo (left) and Taylor Swift (right)

Lizzo has hit back at fans accusing her of throwing shade at Taylor Swift, insisting that she’s “never talked shit about any artist”.

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The Grammy-winning singer, who releases her fifth album ‘Bitch’ next Friday (June 5), recently responded to a post on X/Twitter that compared figures for her 2025 mixtape ‘My Face Hurts From Smiling’ to those of Swift’s latest record, ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’.

“Can someone explain what this means?” Lizzo asked her followers, to which someone replied: “It means all that shit talking you did about Tay finally caught up to you.”

In a quote tweet, she fired back: “Are you well? First of all I have never talked shit about Taylor Swift – also while we on the subject I’ve never talked shit about any artist. Just because I mention an artist by name does not mean I’m talking shit – grow tf up pls.”

Later, Lizzo responded to a post about why she was “interacting with a bunch of stan accounts lately”. She wrote:” So… I haven’t been on Twitter in a while so I’m used to interacting [with] tweets that I think are funny.

“Didn’t realise this whole bitch became stanland                     </div>
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