Is Lizzo Quitting Music? Singer's Birthday Post Sparks Backlash After Threatening To Do So

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Happy Birthday, Lizzo! The "About Damn Time" singer recently turned 35 years old, and she just let her amazing fans accompany her in the famous birthday candle-blowing moment! However, the birthday post comes with an ominous warning or perhaps maybe a birthday joke.

In her TikTok post of the same Instagram video, she wrote that if 26.9 million people did not greet her on the platform, she would quit music.

Happy Birthday, Lizzo: Quitting Music The Gift For Everyone?

On her Instagram account, Lizzo posted a video of her blowing the candles of her birthday cake with a photo of herself as the design!

Captioned, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIZZO," the singer received plenty of birthday greetings on Instagram, including from Chloe and Halle Bailey, Taraji P Henson, Lil Nas X, Saucy Santana, and Target, who mused that it should be a holiday since it's her birthday!

Meanwhile, over on TikTok, Lizzo posted the same video, but it had an ominous warning embedded in the video - IF 26.9 MILLION PEOPLE DON'T WISH ME HAPPY BIRTHDAY, I'M QUITTING - the number corresponding to her total number of followers on the platform.

The rather ominous warning was simply a joke, of course, as Lizzo's humor is usually like that. But as of this writing, the comments on the said posts and the greetings were only under 40,000, so people better start greeting her!

Lizzo's TikTok video had her single "Birthday Girl," playing in the background. "Birthday Girl" is part of the Grammy-nominated album, "Special."

"Is it your birthday, girl? 'Cause you lookin' like a present," she sang on the video.

@lizzo ITS OFFICIALLY MY BIRTHDAY ♬ Birthday Girl - Lizzo

Lizzo Bio

Born Melissa Viviane Jefferson on Apr. 27, 1988, Lizzo attained mainstream success in 2019 after the release of her third album, "Cuz I Love You." It birthed the tracks "Juice," "Tempo," and "Truth Hurts."

To date, Lizzo has made an exceptional performance and brilliance as an artist. Not only was she a recipient of four Grammy Awards, including Record of the Year for 2022's smash hit, "About Damn Time."

She also broke "RuPaul's Drag Race" 4 consecutive years win in a row by winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program for her groundbreaking show "Lizzo's Watch Out for the Big Grrrls."

Interestingly, she got the help of some of the queens from "RuPaul's Drag Race" to perform in protest of the nationwide ban on drag shows in the United States in her Nashville, Tennessee, performance.

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