Lizzo Asked Her Fans To Give Her 6 Feet Of Space Until COVID Is Over
Lizzo is a celebrity, and if there’s one thing people love to do to celebrities it’s get up in their faces and ask for hugs, selfies, autographs, kisses, blessings, money, etc. But that kind of behavior isn’t COVID-friendly, especially with the Delta variant slutting it up all over America. So Lizzo went on Instagram Live to ask her fans and followers to please give her six feet of personal space if they encounter her in public, even if they’re vaccinated. She says if people don’t do this she’s gonna have to start being “slightly rude about it.” And it’s not cuz she thinks she’s “all that,” it’s because she wants her and close friends and family to stay healthy.
Lizzo says:
I don’t care who you are. You could be the nicest person. You could be vaccinated. You could be quadruple vaccinated. If you see me, please! Give me 6 feet. This shit is coming back. COVID. Aaand people being real sloppy with personal space.
Lizzo says that if someone doesn’t respect her personal space she will spritz them with Lysol. She adds:
I’m not trying to catch nothing. I don’t even wanna catch feelings, bitch. You think I wanna catch COVID? So at this point I’m going to be slightly rude about it. Don’t think, “Ah, she a celebrity, she thinks she’s all that!” It’s not that, boo-boo. You know what I think I am? Healthy. You know what I think I am? COVID-free. You know what I think I am? Full of Vitamin D and Vitamin C. You know what I think I am? Safe for my friends and family to be around and my co-workers and my teammates. That’s who I think I am.
So If y’all see me in the street, come up on me, want to hug, want to shake my hand, want to kiss me on the cheek, ZON’T ZO IT. ZOOON’T ZOOOO IT. Cause I ain’t trying to catch this motherfucking virus that’s coming back.
Then, around the 4:00 mark, Lizzo breaks into a song that goes:
I do not want you in my personal space (BACK BACK!)
I ain’t tryin’ to catch no COVID today (BACK BACK!)
You get Lysol if you up in my face (BACK BACK!)
Gimme distance, bitch, get out of my face (BACK BACK!)
And just like that, Lizzo’s spontaneous (?) personal space anthem has adhered itself to my brain wrinkles. I’ll be singing it for months. Here’s Lizzo’s Instagram Live, which she reposted to the main feed:
I need to tag every old friend and acquaintance I’ve run into lately. Because what’s with all of them suddenly trying to hug me? I wasn’t a hugger pre-COVID, I certainly don’t want to press my body against theirs when this pandemic still isn’t over! Time for the hug-hungry souls of the world to invest in those Temple Grandin squeeze machines, STAT.
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