The American pop star takes action to remove an offensive word in her latest track, Grrrls, after being contacted by fans, including Australian Hannah Diviney.
American pop star Lizzo changed a lyric to her song Grrrls after an Australian fan complained that a word used in it was an ableist slur.Australian woman Hannah Diviney told ABC Melbourne that she was "blown away" by the American pop star's responseHannah Diviney, who lives with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy, contacted Lizzo on Twitter to say that the word used in the song made her feel "pretty angry [and] sad".
Lizzo wrote that she was "proud" to release a new version of the track with the offensive word replaced."As a fat black woman in America … I can understand the power words can have ," she wrote."As an influential artist, I'm dedicated to being part of the change I've been waiting to see in the world.""I couldn't have imagined that she would react that positively," Ms Diviney told Sammy J on ABC Radio Melbourne.
"I was expecting that if we got a response at all it would be one of defensiveness or doubling down, not because I think that's how Lizzo operates, just because that's the norm for public figures.Ms Diviney said when she initially heard the song she was "confused" but said she has since learned that the term is not considered a slur in the United States.