Apple Music Awards: Breakthrough Artist of the Year: Lizzo

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This rap and soul supernova redefined the terms and image of pop stardom. 

“This is what a breakthrough is all about, babies,” Lizzo tells Apple Music. 

There’s no point in being humble: It doesn’t get much bigger than “Cuz I Love You” and its chin-up single “Truth Hurts,” which dared to ask what pop stars should look and sound like and whether they should play flute while twerking. (They should.) 

Lizzo’s joyful, bawdy message of self-love is the perfect soundtrack, or antidote, to 2019.