We dare you not to let Lizzo’s ‘About Damn Time’ put you in the mood for summer

In response to Lizzo, it’s bad-bitch o’clock. (And thick-thirty.) But it surely’s additionally practically summertime, possibly even within the Nineteen Seventies.

The three-time Grammy winner unleashed her latest music, “About Rattling Time,” on Thursday, and, nicely, it’s about rattling time.

“Have you ever been feeling harassed? Have you ever additionally been feeling horny? Nicely I bought the treatment for you… I put my entire Lizussy on this one!… ABOUT DAMN TIME IS OUT NOW!” the “Juice” and “Fact Hurts” singer wrote Thursday on Instagram.

The observe — with its affirmative, immediately uplifting disco beat — hails from Lizzo’s just-announced fourth album, “Particular,” which is slated for July 15. The brand new music throws again to 1975 and Van McCoy’s “The Hustle” flute solo.

The accompanying music video, directed by Christian Breslauer, additionally dropped late Thursday. It opens with a sweatsuit-clad Lizzo reluctantly attending a “Burdened and Horny” help group assembly that she fully activates its head by manifesting her interior disco diva.

And that brings the technicolor dazzle to a nondescript workplace constructing she principally takes over. (We dare you to not bop alongside.)

Sporting a bouffant and clad in sequins, the 33-year-old singer does the Carlton dance, splits, twerks and moon walks, then performs the flute on prime of a swimming pool whereas surrounded by synchronized swimmers.

“Flip up the music / Flip down the lights / I’ve bought a sense / I’m gon’ be all proper / OK, all proper, it’s about rattling time,” she sings alongside to bouncy choreography.

The flautist, who not too long ago launched the size-inclusive shapewear line Yitty, informed Apple Music host Zane Lowe that her constructive new music “can lead into so many conversations.”

“It’s about rattling time I really feel higher, it’s about rattling time we get out this pandemic. It’s about rattling time we to get the primary Black feminine Supreme Courtroom justice,” she mentioned. “There’s so many issues. It’s about rattling time we popped the champagne. It’s about rattling time the tequila bought right here.”

Her followers appeared to agree, with a number of on Twitter dubbing “About Rattling Time” the brand new song of the summer and a long-awaited observe from “a feel good queen.”

The singer additionally informed Lowe that she’s writing songs “about love from each route” and hopes to “flip just a little little bit of the worry that’s been operating rampant on this world, energetically into love.”

“I had quite a lot of worry, and I needed to do the work on myself, and this music is a few of that work in turning that worry into love. I hope that when folks hearken to this album, it makes their day just a bit bit higher, just a little bit extra stuffed with love,” she mentioned.

The “Good as Hell” and “Rumors” singer will doubtless be performing the brand new music when she seems on “Saturday Night time Reside” this weekend. She’ll be doubling because the NBC present’s host and musical visitor. She final appeared on “SNL” as a musical visitor in 2019, alongside host Eddie Murphy.