"I was really stressed and I was really sad for a few days, because I just was like, 'Wait a minute.
This is some of my best stuff. I want people to find it,'" she said.
Lizzo noted that she had to accept that her standing within the current musical landscape has evolved.
She connected the shift to changes in the broader media landscape and a highly publicized 2023 workplace misconduct lawsuit filed by her former dancers, which she has repeatedly denied.
"Streaming replaced radio & I was a radio darling," Lizzo said on X.
She also pointed out that the legal dispute directly altered her trajectory, calling it a "very obvious & public attack on my career."
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Prior to the album launch, the singer told USA TODAY that the project served as an opportunity to re-establish her true persona independently of outside narratives.
"A lot of my identity has been manipulated by people outside of me, so this album is me taking that back," she said.
In a separate interview with Zachary Hourihane for Proto Pop, Lizzo reiterated her emotional struggles regarding the first-week sales data.
She described a period of mourning over how the wider industry and her connection to listeners have shifted over the last three years.
"I had to come to terms with the fact that not only is the music industry different in the last three years…my relationship and my connection musically with the world, I had to mourn that," she said.
