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Why Lizzo Almost Quit Music Right Before She Blew Up · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. When Lizza recorded her
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Speaker 1: biggest hit today, Truth Hurts, all the way back in seventeen.
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Speaker 1: She knew it was a banger, the best she'd ever made,
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Speaker 1: but she was actually totally devastated and ready to quit
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Speaker 1: music the day it was released. She tells People Magazine,
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Speaker 1: it was probably the darkest day I've ever had in
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Speaker 1: my career. I remember thinking, if I quit now, nobody
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Speaker 1: would notice. This is my best song ever and nobody cares.
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Speaker 1: But the people who loved her and worked with her
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Speaker 1: got behind her and convinced her to chug along. Eventually,
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Speaker 1: the song got featured in the Gina Rodriguez movie Someone Great,
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Speaker 1: and slowly started to catch fire, and Lizzo is embracing
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Speaker 1: the irony now, saying, now the song that made me
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Speaker 1: want to quit is what everyone's falling in love with
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Speaker 1: me for, which is such a testament to journeys. Your
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Speaker 1: darkest days turned into your brightest triumphs. Great words for life.
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Speaker 1: Truth Hurts is out now. That's direct from Hollywood