She has a trumpeting voice, Lizzo, less soul than pop, her great musical love, but, above all, she has such a personality that it transcends each of her songs, the very good ones as well as the most ordinary, fortunately in the minority on her fourth album, Special. With such an attitude, positive, unifying, proud and assumed, it’s very simple, Lizzo would sing polka or black metal that we would want to listen to anyway. The album opens with the sparkling About Damn Time, neodisco anthem to do every night on a Saturday night. Follow the slinger Grrrls (which samples an early Beastie Boys hit, guess which one), then 2 Be Loved Am I Ready, candy à la Olivia Newton-John. Returning to the title track, she turns to Alicia Keys for inspiration, one of the album’s beautiful rap and soul fusions. On Everybody’s Gaywe almost hear a tribute to Michael Jackson, era off the wall (1979). The album can be listened to in 35 short minutes, and hardly is it finished that we already want to do it again so as not to lose our good mood.
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