Lizzo Jokes She Thought the New ‘Superman’ Trailer Was Her ‘Special’ Music Video
Written by djfrosty on December 19, 2024
The new trailer for James Gunn’s new Superman teaser looked a little familiar to Lizzo.
After the buzzy trailer dropped Thursday (Dec. 19), the superstar joked that the video — particularly one scene in which the titular character, played by David Corenswet, saves a little girl from a slow-motion explosion — had some parallels to her own 2023 “Special” visual. In her music video, Lizzo also plays a caped superhero who at one point gets in between a slo-mo crash and a young girl just in the nick of time, singing, “In case nobody told you today, you’re special/ In case nobody made you believe, you’re special.”
Sharing a clip of that scene on Bluesky, the four-time Grammy winner wrote, “I just watched the new Superman trailer and I thought it was the Special music video for a second 😫”
Lizzo quickly followed it up with another post, writing, “Naw but forreal.. I watched the Superman trailer and I have thoughts…”
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The hitmaker went on to call Rachel Brosnahan’s casting as Lois Lane “perfect” and asked whether “the actor playing Superman” is British. (Nope, Corenswet is American.) “I think showing the dog was cute but premature,” she added of one scene in the trailer in which Clark Kent’s trusty sidekick, Krypto, rescues him after a crash into icy terrain.
Released in 2022, “Special” serves as the title track for the musician’s fourth studio album, which bowed at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. Its lead single, “About Damn Time,” spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and took home record of the year at the 2023 Grammys.
Lizzo has been active on Bluesky since mid-November, when she and countless others started accounts on the ever-growing platform following the 2024 presidential election. “Anyways I joined bluesky cus we’re leaving toxicity in 2024 😃,” she wrote on Instagram at the time. “I hate the internet.”
Also starring Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor and Milly Alcock as Kara Zor-El, Gunn’s take on Superman is set to arrive in theaters July 11. Watch the trailer — and compare and contrast it with Lizzo’s “Special” video — below.