{"id":53731,"date":"2025-01-28T18:09:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T18:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/lizzo-sets-the-record-straight-on-about-damn-time-tiktok-trend-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T18:09:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T18:09:51","slug":"lizzo-sets-the-record-straight-on-about-damn-time-tiktok-trend-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/lizzo-sets-the-record-straight-on-about-damn-time-tiktok-trend-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Lizzo sets the record straight on \u2018About Damn Time\u2019 TikTok trend &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lizzo sets the record straight on \u2018About Damn Time\u2019 TikTok trend YouTube: Lizzo Music\/TikTokMusic queen Lizzo has jokingly hit out at TikTokers who are getting the moves wrong to the TikTok trend set to her hit song \u2018About Damn Time.\u2019 Taking matters into her own hands, she decided to show her fellow creators how it\u2019s done. As well as being a multi-talented musician and all-around superstar, Lizzo has also proved herself to be the queen of TikTok. Fans couldn\u2019t get enough over her hilarious response to rumors that she was pregnant with Chris Evans\u2019 baby. She then added to her collection of titles by becoming a trendsetter when a dance set to her hit song \u2018About Damn Time\u2019 swept across the platform. However, as the trend has filtered through the various creators and their recreations, some of the original moves have got lost in translation. As a result, Lizzo took it upon herself to set the record straight and give a tutorial on how to get the dance right. Lizzo gives \u2018About Damn Time\u2019 dance tutorial In a TikTok uploaded on May 12, Lizzo said she was \u201ctired\u201d of seeing fans doing the signature dance to \u2018About Damn Time\u2019 wrong. Wearing comfy clothes, she took center stage in the middle of her home and showed fans the correct routine. According to the star, \u201cit\u2019s not \u2018About Damn Time,\u2019 with gentle claps, it\u2019s \u2018About Damn Time\u2019 with thick heavy pats. Then for the lyric \u201cneed a sentimental man or woman,\u201d dancers need to face the camera as they do a \u2018V\u2019 formation, rather than stand to the side. She also mocked creators doing the dance who don\u2019t show much enthusiasm for the \u2018Pump me up\u2019 move. Instead, she showed fans how it is really done by thrusting her body backward and forwards and patting her chest. Click here if TikTok fails to load. Lizzo then showed how particularly frustrated she is with TikTokers getting the \u2018Balenci-ussies\u2019 move wrong: \u201cY\u2019all ain\u2019t been doin\u2019 the Balenci-ussies where the Balenci-ussies at.\u201d Flapping her hands in front of the camera, she imitated TikTokers who have been mistakenly doing the move without the hip thrust, shouting \u201cwhat the f*ck is this? What the hell is this?\u201d Lizzo is one of the most beloved musicians on TikTok. However, she could be on the way to facing some stiff competition from Louis Theroux.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lizzo sets the record straight on \u2018About Damn Time\u2019 TikTok trend YouTube: Lizzo Music\/TikTokMusic queen Lizzo has jokingly hit out at TikTokers who are getting the moves wrong to the TikTok trend set to her hit song \u2018About Damn Time.\u2019 Taking matters into her own hands, she decided to show her fellow creators how it\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}