2 Be Loved (Am I Ready)

Album: Special (2022)
Charted: 16 55
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Songfacts®:

  • Here, Lizzo mulls over a potential romantic relationship. Her previous man hurt her, but lying alone in her bed, the "About Damn Time" hitmaker decides she's ready to be loved.
  • Lizzo references her 2017 song "Truth Hurts" in the first verse.

    I did the work, it didn't work, ah, ah
    That truth, it hurts, goddamn it hurts, ah, ah


    Lizzo wrote "Truth Hurts" after she'd received a voicemail from a boyfriend. The guy told the singer he was dumping her because he wanted to return to his ex.
  • Lizzo co-wrote "2 Be Loved (Am I Ready)" with Max Martin. It was the first time the American singer had worked with the Swedish producer; she described the process as like watching a legend at work. "He's an extremely collaborative, open, creative soul," Lizzo told Apple Music. "The song is a callback to when pop records had key changes - that golden era of late '80s and early '90s pop when singers had massive records that were vocally impressive but also danceable, and the production quality was very intentional. I think it's a work of art. It's a masterpiece."
  • Peter Svensson of the Cardigans and regular Max Martin songwriting partner Savan Kotecha helped write "2 Be Loved." Martin's fellow Swede and regular collaborator Ilya Salmanzadeh co-produced the track.

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