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Lizzo Accused of Hostile Work Environment & More by Former Dancers

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0:00 I will say this I wasn't a fan of lizzo when she was disrespecting our ████ country playing that Thomas Jefferson's flute that pissed you off that angered me I was so mad I was on Twitter under all my all accounts yes I was I was I was saying all kinds of mean things and cats once I found out how she treats dancers behind the scenes I actually really like lizard [Music] this is all this is for all the dancers are in the room Hey listen up listen up the zoo all right me and Joe you got fans of uh you guys fans of lizzo I'm a fan of her now yeah I'm a big fan after this dude I'm a huge fan of her irony former lizzo dancers were apparently weight shamed and pressured while at a strip club and now she is under a lawsuit her and apparently the dance Captain why was she like you're not fat enough to be a part of my crew no no the

0:51 other way around really yeah they followed the three former dancers filed the suit against the accusing the singer of sexual harassment and creating a hostile work environment I think she's innocent dude free ████ lizzo because isn't she the one that's always saying that other people are weight shaming her all the time definitely yeah definitely you gotta take it out on somebody but if you're if you're like secretly gay don't you call people gay that's true I do damn that's official secretly fast what kind of fast shaming was she doing on her crew was her crew like like like they're like 250 pounds and then she's like I need you to be like 200 like 40. I honestly think that is what happened yeah sort of like you're trying to sound like you're too fat I think because isn't her whole crew fat yeah they are but they're all the dancers are but then I think like they got more weight on them and she would maybe so she's like the limit is 300 pounds

1:42 you're ████ 320. it's honestly just like a speeding ticket you know it's like hey this would be level 65 around here people get written up at work all the time you know so she was weight shaming like they weren't heavy enough or they were they were going too heavy they're getting too heavy I think that she's like hey look I'm the biggest girl on stage like you you wanna outshine me you go do some you could do that I'll make sure you never work in this town again let's have a ████ carrot stick once a month it is it is a really dicey situation though because when you when you see like a lot of professional dancers have chimed in on the whole ████ thing and they're like it's kind of normal that like if you book a job and let's say you weigh 145 and you your costumes that are made for you are Taylor to your shape you kind of can't change shape because then they have to kind of do work and do it all over like yeah like you you maybe can't ████ cut your hair or maybe if your hair is too crazy you have to dye it back to a

2:33 certain color so you don't stand out more than the artist like there's a bunch of stuff even in Apparel Design it's like that too right it is like of a fit model and then you create to that fit model and that person's not allowed to gain or lose weight dude Christian bill got too fat for the back of the back you had to slim down yeah they made the bet they call him a fatty the whole set it is that's why it's dicey here because like because these these dancers are supposed to be professional in that way but I don't think um I think I'm not sure if they are I think they're just kind of more like newer so it's weird if you're hiring people to be like I guess like fat inclusive then you kind of can't make them follow the same parameters at product I mean you guys being dancers how often do you come around a fat dancer like is it common yeah they're out there for sure they're out there but it's not necessarily like it's it's more so that it's like lizzo's kind of Mo and her public stance on like all inclusive and like fat shaming and all that stuff

3:23 you know the idea of it seems contradictory it is contradictory to what she's about but like all the time like even we were just talking about the suit I've been cutting weight because I've been doing dances lately you know what I mean to make sure that I'm like a certain type of look it's not necessarily a man that's right hell yeah it's not necessarily mandatory but it it will stand out if you don't like you know keep yourself in shape in a certain way and that's kind of part of the thing um we've we've been I I was just part of that tour in China where one of our guys compared to last time has been out of shape and he's put on like 10 15 pounds so it wasn't like dude you're getting fat but it's kind of like you're fine hey um make sure you keep up with your conditioning you know what I'm saying so that we can we can get the show in China you kept your stuff to dance around you can't just be straight up like hey you're too fat for the roll I'm nice oh I see is it nice to talk around it and not just say what it is like Hey we're sending you to jail and not like sending

4:14 you to the Department of Corrections I think it's more that like you're protected under the fact that it's there's job parameters so it won't be a discriminatory comment to say like hey we all have to be at this weight for this job yeah but I think when you enter this world of like oh let's be so inclusive then now how do you say hey there's a thousand pound weight limit for this stage we can't all be on this side like how do you make these like comments yeah that's true you know like they're not gonna build the stage to support because one's feelings based the other one's like actual numbers based yeah I think it complicates it can I show you something real quick see this weight limit on the stage even though it says four people that's four people that weigh 150 pounds we're talking about a cataclysmic event yeah that's that's what I think is that's what I think is odd well so so there's

5:04 there's multiple like elements it's not just the way what's another thing about a banana yeah there's a banana feature there is there is here's the thing though okay I'm not choosing any stances I'm gonna choose just choose a step I think I already know what stance on them well has anybody been to Amsterdam and seen a live sex show no oh yes I have I've been to the livestock show yeah that was a part of it really how so no there was a girl at the window and then she said you want to be on the show and I was like sure and I walked in and she goes okay 100 euros to see it and I'm like okay I gave it to her and then we had sex I don't think that's the live sexual weird it's not I think that's just the regular red light district uh work I think you paid a hooker to have sex with you yeah I thought I was doing a live sh it was live

5:54 with someone that you weren't aware of well I don't know was she on her phone was she doing her taxes what she had TurboTax I saw a live sexual yeah it's like a theater and then the curtains opened up and as soon as the curtains opened up it was a rotating Circle mattress with a dude boning a chick already totally yeah so I've seen this suit and but there's it's almost like a variety show right there's like moments where like girl puts ping pongs in her vagina shoots them out there's a moment where she calls out like a fat dude on stage like from the audience she puts a Sharpie interview yeah girl smoking a cigarette with a ████ yeah so there's like a bunch of random and then a banana thing also happens there's a mountain where there's she puts a banana and opens it and then somebody has to eat oh yeah yeah I remember that out of her vagina yeah yeah that bad dude it's got a potassium show so that's that's the only thing it's I think because I unders I've seen a show like this too that uh when I heard this

6:46 or when I read the story and again I don't know if that's the exact situation but they're saying at a club in Amsterdam they went to something like this and then you know you know what I mean and it's like the context if you don't know that these shows exist it's like that is sexual harassment when I heard about that but if you do hear the of this cultural context she just took them to a sex show that's what I'm saying but they were pressured to they felt pressure to participate because the power Dynamic of like they I'm so sick of that ████ excuse me yeah that's ████ ████ everyone's talking like an adult you can't let this guy tell me hey Bart asked me to eat a banana out of a vagina I'm gonna do it because he's way bigger than me he's like I'm sick of this but I'm gonna do it okay look Nick's in a room where he's got peer pressure to get a tattoo and he's actually gonna go through it I'm gonna do it yeah officially on camera you don't have to do it

7:36 but you do no I want to do it so bad power Dynamic ████ is ████ so that was there so that was their sexual harassment thing is like we went to a sex show and Amsterdam I had to eat ████ banana ████ that's what they're saying did you see the ████ the flip side of this ████ with the dancers so like it came out like when everyone is looking into it is now finding out that those dancers are scam artists or at least one of them is like a heavy religious like kind of like a uh what is it called like a religious fanatic and has been pushing like Christian values like on the whole like Camp yeah that's a Vibe killer too a little bit and that person got we can't just hang out with the power Dynamic to go to a sex show so that's why there's like a that's why there's a problem with all these things is because it's like

8:26 against her religious values can't you be religious and eat bananas out of ████ though yeah dude I mean p████'s natural maybe in church yeah and so is banana that's what I'm saying for lizzo if she's not with your values that's the other thing that's what that she got hella problems too that's that's another stance but then also you know maybe that's just her way of infiltrating and affecting the people that need it I don't know I think people are just ████ weird I think people are funny but you're gonna start seeing that coming out because they're they're trying to like Leverage The Other Side by exposing that part by being like Oh the only reason they're having this issue is because like they were already hard to work with because of their values they were trying to and I guess they've already been told that they were being a problem because of the religious ████ isn't this how dancers should be treated sometimes too yeah I think so that's what I'm saying please explain I

9:17 wasn't a fan I will say this I wasn't a fan of lizzo when she was disrespecting our ████ country playing that Thomas Jefferson's flute that pissed you off that pissed me off that angered me I was so mad I was on Twitter under all my all accounts yes I was I was I was saying all kinds of mean things in cash once I found out how she treats dancers behind the scenes I actually really like Liza didn't you go to a lizzles show so yeah I was never really a fan I didn't I was never really a fan of lizzo but um uh Nina's one of her best friend's boyfriend does uh Liz was makeup so like they ended up getting us tickets yeah I know when we were in Vegas yeah we bounced we bounced from your house yeah my house my party yeah you left my party yeah it was worth it to go see lizzo lizzo and then honestly I was like she's ████ dope I was like this is a sick show she's super dope did you

10:08 ever feel scared up for the stage at any point yeah was there a lot of stopping from from Fat peoples this is I'm in this industry I'm not gonna say these words I'll say it off camera do you think okay let me if you do if the stage had a face do you think that face would be like oh please like Thomas the Tank Engine you fat shamer oh geez just because you've been losing weight and looking good it is true though it's like lizzo's ████ is ████ dope but I also I also don't care like it's not doesn't do anything for me that she's fat I don't really care the same way I don't care if Etta James has abs yeah it's like who gives a ████ because music is like why she's a great performer she's fun to watch I will say Elizabeth did come out with a public statement yesterday on IG yeah and she said um uh these last few days have been gut wretchingly difficult and overwhelmingly

10:58 disappointing my work ethic morals and respectfulness have been questioned my character has been criticized usually I choose not to respond to false allegations but these are as unbelievable as they sound and too outrageous to not be addressed these sensationalized stories are coming from former employees who have already publicly admitted that they were told their behavior on tour was inappropriate and unprofessional as an artist I've always been very passionate about what I do I take my music and my performances seriously because at the end of the day I only want to put out the best art that represents me and my fans with passion comes hard work and high standards sometimes I have to make hard decisions but it's never my intention to make anyone feel uncomfortable or like they aren't valued as an important part of the team I'm not here to be looked at as a victim but I also know that I'm not the villain that people in the media portray me to be these last few days I'm very open with my sexuality and expressing myself but I cannot accept or allow people to use that openness to

11:49 make me out to be something I'm not there's nothing I take more seriously than the respect we deserve as women in the world I know what it feels like to be body shamed on a daily basis and would absolutely never criticize or terminate an employee because of their weight I'm hurt but I will not let the good work I've done in the world be overshadowed by this I want to thank everyone who has reached out and support to lift me up during this difficult time what do you think at the end of the day all she did was feed dancers fruit God for ████ bid yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah honestly I think that's a pretty good apology I think the the freaking funny things is the three problems to me are this one is like now it's like from the dancer point of view it's like it's the whole inclusiveness mixing with the what was previously professionalism because that doesn't fly nowadays and plus the second thing is vet your ████ Camp don't hire people that are going to have a religious conflict of what you're doing yeah

12:39 that's it if you think someone's going to complain about eating a banana out of a vagina that's something you should have seen as a tour manager or as her manager should go like oh we can't have these people on tour because it's a potential lawsuit in the future I like the idea that Liz was sitting there and she's like sometimes I have to make tough decisions and she's like should I make the dancers eat bananas out of ████ or no or cherries at the butt yeah because like that but also the dancer if you're a Christian right what the ████ are you doing going into a sex show in the first place that's what I'm saying I gotta sleep early I'm tired yeah just remove yourself from the situation all this could be easily avoided but that's why I believe it because that's the thing that happens all the ████ I can say that will happen yeah you go out with your entourage as an artist you're everyone's gonna do ████ that maybe not that wasn't everyone's idea but but if you went out that's kind of like you shouldn't have just gone out yeah it's on you we've all

13:30 been on tour I'm the one that ████ leaves at 10 a uh 10 a.m I don't even have morals 10 a.m I just don't want to be there 10 a.m I don't even want to be there I'm gonna go to sleep I remember we were playing craps and we're like let's go to the strip club in barcos oh sexually harassed everybody because I bought so many lap dances for everybody Anthony Lee want to buy me so many lap dances and I was like no Anthony I will not do that I need you to stop saying my full name when you're accusing I like saying Anthony Lee I can't say Anthony Lee Anthony Lee Anthony and then the last thing is for all the fans that are saying oh lizzo would never do that it's like how the ████ would you know you don't know celebrities like you don't know any of these but she wouldn't though but she wouldn't but I think what she did was totally

14:20 honestly I think what she did was totally in line with what most artists do I think it's more likely and you're also assuming that you're also probably assuming that you're camp like that's your Camp you've probably built some sort of Rapport yeah you know what I mean and then it's like imagine if in this room for whatever reason I bounced from the crew and then I was like dude these guys are saying these words and it was making me uncomfortable you know what I mean it's like but it's like yo that was a rapport and I think that's more likely of a situation than her actually Force feeding bananas out of vagina and that's to me it's it's a great example of the of the thing where if you want to have honestly if you want to have a woke environment you will never be able to keep up with the standard it will get stricter and stricter and you will always be a slave to the next parameter so it's like as inclusive as she ████ was she still couldn't keep up nope you know what I mean do you remember the Madonna tour in like the 90s when they did it it's like truth or dare I think is what it's called right they did the documentary

15:11 and she's like in there like flirting with her dancers sexually harassing their dancers like grabbing her dancers dicks and ████ this is just how dancing this is how dancers get treated they're just pieces of meat for us to touch all the time [Music]

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