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LIZZO’S DETHRONING HAS BEEN SWIFT

Beyoncé appeared to remove Lizzo’s name from a song while she was singing.

By Kenzie Bryant

August 2, 2023
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Update (Thursday, August 3 at 9:00 a.m.): Lizzo has responded at length to three
of her former dancers’ lawsuit filed in the Los Angeles County Superior Court.
In a post on Instagram, the performer wrote, “These last few days have been
gut-wrenchingly difficult and overwhelmingly disappointing. My work ethic,
morals, and respectfulness have been questioned. My character has been
criticized. Usually I chose not to respond to false allegations but these are as
unbelievable as they sound and too outrageous to not be addressed.”\

“The sensationalized stories are coming from former employees who have already
publicly admitted they were told their behavior on tour was inappropriate and
unprofessional,” the Grammy-winner continued. The suit claims Arianna Davis had
been fired for filming a meeting in which Lizzo provided notes to the dancers,
which Davis says she wanted to review later. Lizzo added that she doesn’t want
to be “looked at as a victim, but also know that I am not the villain that
people and the media have portrayed me to be these last few days. I am very open
with my sexuality and expressing myself but I can not accept or allow people to
use that openness to make me out to be something I am not.”



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The internet is many things, but most of all it’s swift. On Tuesday, an
employment lawyer representing Lizzo’s former backup dancers, Davis, Crystal
Williams, and Noelle Rodriguez, sent around a lawsuit filed against their former
employer. These dancers are alleging several things against the performer
including failure to prevent sexual or religious harassment, disability
discrimination, and assault. (Lizzo did not immediately respond to a request for
comment.)



Hours after the initial headlines posted, Courtney Hollinquest, another former
dancer, who clarified she is not part of the lawsuit, voiced her support for
those that sued. Soon thereafter, Quinn Wilson, Lizzo’s former creative
director, echoed Hollinquest’s sentiments, adding that “I haven’t been apart
[sic] of that world for around three years for a reason.”

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Around dinnertime, Sophia Nahli Allison, an Oscar-nominated filmmaker, who had
been hired to make a documentary on Lizzo admitted that she walked away from the
project after two weeks. She said she “witnessed how arrogant, self-centered,
and unkind [Lizzo] is.” 



By Tuesday night, while in Boston, Beyoncé left the name “Lizzo” out of her
“Break My Soul” remix. The song used to go “Betty Davis, Solange Knowles / Badu,
Lizzo, Kelly Rowl.” In videos from the crowd, it sounds like she just repeats
“Badu.” 

Davis and Williams joined Lizzo’s team after competing as contestants on Lizzo’s
Amazon Prime reality show Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls in March 2021.
Lizzo hired Rodriguez for her “Rumors” video and kept her on afterward. Davis
and Williams were fired in the spring of 2023, after which, Rodriguez
resigned. Besides listing Lizzo as a defendant, the suit adds her production
company Big Grrrl Big Touring, Inc. (BGBT), and Shirlene Quigley, captain of her
dance team.

The suit claims that Quigley, the dance captain, is a devout, proselytizing
Christian, and became obsessed with Davis’s virginity and “singled out“
Rodriguez as a “non-believer.” Quigley, they allege, did not believe in
premarital sex, but would speak continually about masturbation and simulated
fellatio on a banana. Complaints about her, the lawsuit claims, would go
unheeded. 

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They are also accusing the production company of offering them an unfair rate of
25% of full pay while they were on retainer and barred from seeking other dance
work (other performers were allegedly paid a 50% rate for such a setup). In the
spring, management agreed to a 50% retainer but by then its relationship with
the dancers was “very strained,“ according to the suit. (Quigley and BGBT did
not immediately respond to a request for comment.) 

The dancers, the lawsuit alleges, were “exposed to an overtly sexual atmosphere
that permeated their workplace,” where outings with nudity and sexuality “were a
focal point.” In Amsterdam, for example, during a night the dancers felt was
obligatory to keep their job, they attended the club Bananenbar. 

“While at Bananenbar, things quickly got out of hand,” the lawsuit reads. “Lizzo
began inviting cast members to take turns touching the nude performers, catching
dildos launched from the performers’ vaginas, and eating bananas protruding from
the performers’ vaginas. Lizzo then turned her attention to Ms. Davis and began
pressuring Ms. Davis to touch the breasts of one of the nude women performing at
the club. Lizzo began leading a chant goading Ms. Davis. Ms. Davis said three
times, loud enough for all to hear, ‘I’m good,’ expressing her desire not to
touch the performer.”

Davis finally did so. “Plaintiffs were aghast with how little regard Lizzo
showed for the bodily autonomy of her employees and those around her, especially
in the presence of many people whom she employed,” the suit reads. Most
ironically perhaps, Davis’s lawyer claims that Lizzo’s public posture of weight
inclusivity did not extend to the dancers. She felt she had to “explain her
weight gain and disclose intimate personal details about her life in order to
keep her job,” the suit claims.

Though this allegation would be shocking against anyone, it’s especially so
against Lizzo, who has made herself the face of body positivity and inclusivity
in the music world through self-love anthems like “Good as Hell” and “Juice.”
She has a size-inclusive line of shapewear and has spoken at length about her
own relationship to her body. 


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