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>Lizzo is Time’s 2019 Entertainer of the Year
>Kassidy Vavra
>By KASSIDY VAVRA
>NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
>DEC 11, 2019 | 11:27 AM
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>The DNA test results are in — and it turns out Lizzo is
>Time’s 2019 Entertainer of the Year.
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>The honor caps off a whirlwind year for the “Good as Hell”
>rapper since her debut album “Cuz I Love You” — released
>in April — soared to the top of the music charts and she
>dominated the 2020 Grammy nominations with a whopping eight.
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>“I’ve been doing positive music for a long-ass time,”
>she said. “Then the culture changed. There were a lot of
>things that weren’t popular but existed, like body
>positivity, which at first was a form of protest for fat
>bodies and black women and has now become a trendy,
>commercialized thing. Now I’ve seen it reach the mainstream.
>Suddenly I’m mainstream!”
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>“How could we have guessed something like this would happen
>when we’ve never seen anything like this before?” she
>added.
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>Her song “Truth Hurts” topped Billboard’s Hot 100 songs
>list for nearly two months, and broke a record for
>longest-running track in the top spot by a solo female rapper
>at six weeks.
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>“Truth Hurts is officially the longest solo female rap #1 in
>history. I fell in love with music when I was 9 years
>old...” she captioned a September Instagram photo that was
>edited to show her holding the Billboard Hot 100 list.
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>“If this lil Lizzo only knew all that she would accomplish
>when she picked up that flute, or wrote songs in her room, or
>forced her friends to make girlbands," she added at the time.
>“It’s just so humbling to know it was all worth it.
>Don’t run away from what your heart wants.”
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>The artist is up for Grammys including Album of the Year for
>“Cuz I love You (Deluxe)."
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>Time also announced Greta Thunburg as its 2019 Person of the
>Year, along with the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team as 2019
>Athlete of the Year, Disney CEO Robert Iger as 2019
>Businessperson of the Year.
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>Kassidy Vavra
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