Lizzo‘s unreleased track “Don’t Make Me Love U” is finally on its way, which the star announced Wednesday (March 18) on social media with a video that’ll have you seeing double.
In the clip, a camera circles Lizzo as she throws it back on her doppelgänger, who stares ahead blankly in beige spandex and stilettos. The upcoming track plays in the background while a man offscreen shouts encouragements at the star, who twerks to lyrics such as “Don’t make me love you if you’re just gonna change your mind.”
“THE NEW NATIONAL ANTHEM ‘DON’T MAKE ME LOVE U,’” Lizzo captioned the clip. “THIS FRIDAY. GET READYYYYY.”
The Grammy winner previously previewed “Don’t Make Me Love U” while guesting on Late Night With Seth Meyers in February, singing a few bars a cappella. She last dropped music in October, unleashing “Freak Show” that month. Before that, she released June mixtape My Face Hurts From Smiling, which featured collaborations with SZA and Doja Cat.
Lizzo had originally planned on releasing an album titled Love in Real Life, but pivoted away from the project after singles “Still Bad” and “Love in Real Life” didn’t make a splash on the Billboard Hot 100 — a chart she’s previously topped with smashes “Truth Hurts” and “About Damn Time.”
“By 2025, I’ve changed, the world has changed so much, and so much has happened,” she explained in a September interview with Vulture, noting that she wrote most of the shelved album in 2022. “It just wasn’t what I 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.’”
The hitmaker is also fresh off mini residencies at the Blue Note jazz clubs in Los Angeles and New York City, as well as the announcement of upcoming children’s book Lil Lizzo Meets Sasha B. Flootin’.
