Flutes, freestyles and infectious enjoyable: Lizzo’s best songs – ranked! | Lizzo

20. Pink (2023)

Lizzo’s contribution to the Barbie soundtrack fitted the movie’s opening scene completely: fluffy, wilfully light-weight disco-pop, with lyrics that break up the distinction between being knowingly daft and providing a self-empowerment message. If you’re not out there for high-camp positivity, strive the Pink (Bad Day) model, which flips the monitor’s temper on its head.

19. IRL (ft SZA) (2025)

Lizzo’s latest singles haven’t clicked, and it’s debatable whether or not that’s due to allegations about her behaviour or as a result of they aren’t excellent. But her 2025 mixtape, My Face Hurts from Smiling, exhibits she hasn’t fully misplaced her contact, as this robust rap minimize full with a candy SZA-sung hook proves.

18. Coldplay (2022)

The titular band’s breakthrough hit, Yellow, will get sped up on the pleased ending nearer from her 2022 album, Special. They get a point out within the lyrics too, albeit as a soundtrack to the distress the singer has left behind: the true meat of the monitor is in its description of blossoming new love and its beautiful 70s soul strings.

17. Boys (2018)

The backing of Boys feels like a taut, loving tribute to prime-time Neptunes with a home beat added, and the lyrics are a marvellous enumeration of Lizzo’s nondiscriminatory method to relationship: bearded or clean-shaven, hick or city-dweller, straight or gay, you’re apparently in with an opportunity. A pleasure.

16. Like a Girl (2019)

“Only exes that I care about are in my fuckin’ chromosomes / I don’t really need you, I’m Macaulay Culkin, home alone” is a wonderful couplet, however Like a Girl swiftly strikes from damaged relationships to gleeful feminine empowerment, full with shout-outs to Serena Williams and Lauryn Hill, and a killer pop refrain.

15. Break Up Twice (2022)

Lizzo as soon as described Mark Ronson as her “dream collab”. Here, he seems an ideal classic-soul-influenced manufacturing that samples Judy Clay and William Bell’s superior 1968 hit Private Number – whereas, in a definite turnaround from Like a Girl, the lyrics hymn the advantages of staying on good phrases along with your ex.

14. Fitness (2018)

Minimal in each sense, Fitness does rather a lot with just a little. The music is actually only a drum monitor and a hook line that sounds as if it’s being performed on a xylophone; the lyrics spend two and half minutes discussing the virtues of Lizzo’s “bootyvicious” bum.

13. Water Me (2017)

There’s an inclination amongst journalists to explain Lizzo’s music in a manner that makes it appear unbearably worthy: empowerment, self-love, physique positivity. In equity, Water Me is a monitor about all these issues, however, maybe extra importantly, it’s an irresistible explosion of dancefloor-focused musical pleasure, outfitted with a complete earworm of a refrain.

12. Everybody’s Gay (2022)

Superior disco-infused club-pop – full with blasting horns and an surprising hair steel guitar solo – that performs on each meanings of the phrase “gay”, with a view to hymn the dancefloor as an everyone-welcome protected house in which you’ll be able to reinvent your self. Or, certainly, merely be your self.

11. Ride (2015)

Lizzo’s second album, Big Grrrl Small World, tends to get neglected, nevertheless it’s a captivating bridge between her hip-hop origins and pop success. Standout monitor Ride is just a little harder than the songs that made her well-known, nevertheless it nonetheless packs a serious hook. It may simply have been a success.

10. Yitty on Yo Tittys (2025)

The greatest monitor from her My Face Hurts from Smiling mixtape takes Lizzo again to her hip-hop roots: a dextrous, chorus-free freestyle that comes out swinging in opposition to unfavourable press and on-line gossip (“Can’t even outdress my Labubu!”), shouts out Kendrick Lamar and plugs her swimwear vary.

9. Cuz I Love You (2019)

Lizzo was as soon as apparently reluctant about singing within the studio, believing that her voice wasn’t sturdy sufficient. From its racked a cappella opening to its grandstanding, emotive finale, the title monitor of Cuz I Love You underlines how improper she was. It’s a music that will get its uncooked energy solely from her vocal.

8. Batches & Cookies (ft Sophia Eris) (2013)

The first signal that Lizzo could be greater than an underground rapper with a social conscience, a penchant for 90s hip-hop and a factor for the flute, Batches & Cookies is simply incredible: a large breakbeat, some warp-speed rapping, and a hook that drills its manner into your mind and refuses to depart.

7. Tempo (ft Missy Elliott) (2019)

Lizzo’s collaboration with the nice Missy Elliott pays homage to the latter’s sparse late 90s/early 00s sound. But it nonetheless has disco, hair steel guitar and a flute solo within the combine, and comes with a video that includes Lizzo twerking and Missy rising from underneath the bonnet of a automotive: there may be nothing to not like about Tempo.

6. 2 Be Loved (Am I Ready) (2022)

You someway get the sensation that everybody concerned within the making of two Be Loved (Am I Ready) – together with pop super-producer Max Martin – was having the time of their lives making a pitch-perfect early 80s pop-R&B homage, like one thing that fell off a Pointer Sisters album. The sense of enjoyable is deliriously infectious.

5. Juice (2019)

The sort of single you simply knew on first pay attention was destined to grow to be an enormous, inescapable smash hit, which after all it duly was. Juice is a name to forged off your inhibitions, set to gleeful retro synth-funk – the proper instance of Lizzo’s skill to make a degree and begin a celebration on the identical time.

4. Truth Hurts (2017)

Truth Hurts took two years to succeed in No 1 within the US, steadily gaining traction because of TikTok virality and a slot on the soundtrack of the hit Netflix romcom Someone Great. Given its sharp, witty lyrics (“I just took a DNA test, turns out I’m 100% that bitch”) and glowing piano loop, it’s a case of the nice will out.

3. About Damn Time (2022)

Imperial section Lizzo at her top, About Damn Time’s delirious disco pop completely captured a post-Covid, post-first-Trump-term temper of aid that now appears just a little quaint. Pub quiz truth: Malcolm McLaren will get a co-writing credit score because of a pattern from the World’s Famous Supreme Team’s 1984 hit, Hey DJ.

2. Jerome (2019)

Amid the occasion bangers of Cuz I Love You, Jerome unexpectedly calls again to 50s and 60s R&B ballads, albeit in a warped digital variant. It’s all about Lizzo’s emotive vocal, which manages to convey empathy for the music’s titular topic, even whereas telling him to sling his hook in no unsure phrases.

1. Good As Hell (2016)

If you needed to pinpoint a second when Lizzo’s profession dramatically shifted gear, it could be the discharge of the lead monitor from her EP Coconut Oil. Good As Hell amped up the pop points of her second album, Big Grrrl Small World, till they grew to become inarguable, making the inspirational/motivational themes in her lyrics the main target – and that leap was made with confidence and panache. Good As Hell – which ultimately grew to become a chart hit in 2019 – is only a preposterously well-made pop music that concurrently works as a peak-time anthem and a soundtrack to the anticipation of an evening out.