Lizzo has had it with the right’s weird obsession with Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle jeans ad. After parodying the controversial spot earlier in the week with a PhotoShopped image of her body in a Canadian tuxedo striking the same sultry pose as the Euphoria star with the captions, “If the Democrats won the election” and “My jeans are black…” Lizzo doubled down on Monday (Aug. 4) with what sounds like a new song taking on the body politic(s) of the second Trump era.
“We are over this woke agenda, we are over the Lizzos, we are over the Dylan Mulvaneys. If this was a 300-pound, non-binary person they would be applauding her,” a Fox commentator opines in a clip from the conservative channel’s report on the backlash to the Sweeney campaign from critics who’ve suggested her “good jeans” campaign features a not-so-subtle racially coded, eugenics-embracing message about genetic purity. (Check out the video below.)
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The intro leads into what sounds like a sultry new song from Lizzo in which she raps, “F–k outta my face/ Ho gimme some space/ It’s way too hot up in here y’all, sweatin’ outta my lace/ Don’t need no bottle service, we pulled up with our drinks/ Trunk fulla that ace.” Over a soul-stirring 1970s-era R&B backing track, Lizzo speaks directly to the camera while rocking a jeans and jean jacket ensemble with just a black bra underneath as she describes exactly what she wants her man to do.
“I’m gonna give him a grand slam/ He pullin’ off the panties/ The way he hit from the back/ I might give him one of my Grammys,” she adds as the camera follows her swinging her rear end side-to-side, subtly sashaying past her handful of Grammy awards and extensive wig collection. At press time a spokesperson for Lizzo had not returned Billboard‘s request for additional information on the song, which did not appear on Lizzo’s recent mixtape, MY FACE HURTS FROM SMILING. The singer-rapper has been teasing her upcoming fifth studio album, Love in Real Life, the follow-up to 2022’s Special, though no release date or track listing has been announced so far.
Lizzo’s jeans/genes commentary comes amid a heated cultural discussion about the recently released “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans” ad, which has had a number of prominent commenters in the Fox News/conservative universe praising Americana star Sweeney’s beauty in the campaign that plays on the tricky jeans/genes homophone.
Critics have dinged the campaign for featuring a conventionally attractive blonde white woman with blue eyes standing in for the prime example of “good jeans,” while both Vice President JD Vance and President Donald Trump have taken time to praise the ad.
“My political advice to the Democrats is continue to (call) everybody who thinks Sydney Sweeney is attractive is a Nazi,” Vance recently the Ruthless podcast. Trump similarly praised the spot, writing on his Truth Social platform that Sweeney has the “HOTTEST” ad in the market, adding “Go get ’em Sydney!”
In a follow-up post — after the original one in which he incorrectly spelled the 27-year-old actress’ name as “Sidney” — Trump added, “Being WOKE is for losers, being Republican is what you want to be.” The latter came after several reports over the weekend that Sweeney is a registered Republican in Florida. “Ohhhhh, now I love her ad. Is that right, is Sydney Sweeney?” Trump said during a scrum with reporters on Sunday. “You’d be surprised at how many people are Republicans. That’s what I wouldn’t have known, but I’m glad you told me that if Sydney Sweeney is a registered Republican, I think her ad is fantastic.” To date, Sweeney has not commented on the campaign publicly.
In the midst of the Sweeney jeansgate, on Monday Trump once again used the controversy as an opportunity to diss Taylor Swift, comparing the two women’s politics in an effort to claim that conservative women are more “hot.”
”Sydney Sweeney, a registered Republican, has the ‘HOTTEST’ ad out there,” Trump wrote. “It’s for American Eagle, and the jeans are ‘flying off the shelves. Go get ‘em Sydney!… Just look at Woke singer Taylor Swift. Ever since I alerted the world as to what she was by saying on TRUTH that I can’t stand her (HATE!),” he added about the singer who supported Trump rival Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. “She was booed out of the Super Bowl and became, NO LONGER HOT. The tide has seriously turned — Being WOKE is for losers, being Republican is what you want to be. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Watch Lizzo’s video here.
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