Lizzo’s Newest Honor: A KIDZ BOP Cover of “Truth Hurts”

Turns out mainstream adulation comes in strange forms

Allison Gauss

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In the past year, recording artist and all-around bad bitch Lizzo has enjoyed many honors signaling her success in the music industry: chart-topping records, a double platinum single, performances at the MTV VMAs and BET Awards, a collaboration with Missy Elliot. Lizzo is on top of the world.

But recently, she achieved something that signifies pop culture penetration like nothing else: a KIDZ BOP cover.

If you’re not aware, KIDZ BOP is a series of compilations that reimagine the most ubiquitous pop songs with children in mind. With a rotating cast of prepubescent singers, the entity has been replacing curse words and distorting double entendres since 2001. Typically, the covers come out several months after the original record’s release, when it has already become unavoidable. But sometimes the unavoidable is inappropriate for young ears.

How to Make it KIDZ-Friendly

Remember when you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing “Closer” by The Chainsmokers and Halsey? Even if you don’t recognize the artists, you know this song.

“So baby pull me closer in the back seat of your Rover/

that I know you can’t afford/bite that tattoo on your shoulder/

Pull the sheets right off the corner of that mattress that you stole”

But perhaps you don’t want your child hooking up in the backseat of a soon-to-be repossessed Rover or maybe your kid already has a problem with biting people. Either way, you don’t want them to get the wrong message.

KIDZ BOP is looking out for you.

“So baby pull me closer as we stand against the Rover/

that I know they can’t afford/ brush that stress right off your shoulder/

pull the sheets right off the corner of that notebook that you stole”

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