Zara Larsson is my Hero

Short recap of what's been going on in my life and professing my love for Zara Larsson.

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Hey guys, welcome back to Make Love Love Yourself. This is Lizzie at Lizzie DNA on Instagram, and I'm here for my random chaotic episode of every few months. It has been a few months, but that's okay. I wanted to talk about a few things today. It's like basically summer. If we like skip, you know what? I'm not gonna skip the weather talk because that is literally so boring. I have some TikTok comment sections for you, and I just wanted to talk about my love of Zara Larson because I'm quite literally obsessed. She's my favorite person in the whole world, and we have so much in common. Um, you know, she doesn't drink, and that's so cool. I love that. Um, I think she like partakes in like other grassy activities, but like that's totally fine. You do you, um, whatever makes you happy. And like I love Charlie XEX, and I don't care that she does drugs. Like, if she can do it, she can do it. You know, she's like married and like has her life together. Some people can just do drugs, and that's great for them. I am not one of those people, and I I learned that in several different ways over several years of my life. Oh yeah, but that's enough about me. Um, so I am just chilling before I have to head to Providence to teach a couple of classes. Um, I like teaching at nighttime. I found myself to be a uh well, I've put myself in a situation where I'm teaching a lot of like a lot. I'm teaching two, 6 a.m. classes a week, and that's enough for my body clock to wake up at 5 a.m. However, I'm not alert, alive, and coherent at that hour. I usually don't become a human until around 10. And that's totally fine. I mean, the great part about working out in the morning is as long as you like have some kind of stimulant or like pre-workout or like coffee, uh, green tea extract, beverage in your right hand um whilst driving, you'll be pretty okay. Um, and your brain's not functioning. So your body's gonna do the work and your brain won't even know that you're doing it. Um, yeah. I mean, part of the thing about being an instructor that I really love is the second I put the microphone on, it's it's game time. Like my brain and my body and my know what to do. And it's really cool. I like it, you know. I used to black out because I used to drink a lot and like do bad things, but bad things for me, not bad things for other people, other people can handle it. Um but I I black out in a way that like is really great now that I I mean I have literally been doing this for 15 years more than that, and I can't even believe it. But I mean, I love just like getting in the flow and through when the playlist is hitting, which I do have to say, like I really hope that whoever takes my classes likes my playlist because I live, breathe, die music. Like I love music so much, and it's not like I love like cool like indie bands that a lot of people do, like really obscure stuff. But here's the thing like I love Lady Gaga in 2009 when I was illegally downloading her music from a guy named John Ali from his blog and giving my computer viruses. So, like I knew the pop girlies before they blew up. So then she was like a cool indie artist. Now the girls that I like became a woman listening to are like expensive to go see. So I don't know who the new kids are, but Zara Larson, funnily enough, my top two most played songs in 2016, which was the year before I got sober, were Zara Larson songs. So me and her like have a long history. Um, I've also always said that one of my favorite songs called All the Time by Zara Larson. It's amazing. And I want to read to you a quote that I saw on Instagram that made me feel better about my life because I get down about myself and my life all the time. She said, A part of me wishes I went to college because I didn't even finish high school. I hate saying that because it doesn't match my brain. Like I'm a smart girl, but someone who has to entertain the someone has to entertain the educated, and that's my job, and I take that seriously. Like, girl, she and I are we're the same. Like, I also feel that way. I truly I say to my classes all the time, it is a privilege for me to get on the mic and tell you how to move your body. And I can't even believe that people listen to me and like do the things that I asked them to do. Like yesterday in my 6 a.m. class, after we did 30 minutes of spin and then two rounds of a circuit, I was like, all right, guys, we're gonna do one minute burpees, and they did it. Like, no one stomped their foot and cried. Like, it is it is unbelievable to me the amount of power that I hold, and I do not take it for granted. I'm seriously so grateful that I get to do that because I truly think it was who I was meant to be when I was put on this earth. Um, I was I woke up this morning at five on the dot, and I just like laid in my bed and like closed my eyes and thought about things, and then I got up and I had a little dance party in my kitchen because I was like, all right, I don't, it's not time for me to go to the gym yet because I wanted to go take a 7 a.m. class. I was like, okay, so I threw my headphones in and I put on a Britney Spears song, and the memory came back to me of when I was 13, when I was in eighth grade, and I was learning the choreography to Slay for You by Britney Spears. And what it would do is I would record it on VHS and then play it back in slow motion about a hundred million times, and that's how I would learn choreo back in the day, and it's way different now with TikTok. Like, I mean, learning choreo is really hard. Um, but anyway, uh that's what I did when I was 13 was learn how to move my body. And while I'm not good at like sports and coordination, one thing I do know how to do is I can move my hips side to side. I'm not Zara Larson in the fact that I can move my hips like up and down. That's like a whole that's gonna be my new like if there was a New Year's resolution for like summer, that's my new summer resolution. I want to learn how to throw my ass in a circle. It's really important that I learn to do that uh for my mental health. And um, I just think it would be really fun. What a fun party trick to like be able to like twerk and throw it around in a circle that or in a square, which is what she does sometimes. Um, she she can do it in so many shapes, ovals. She can probably hit a triangle, she can jump into a split. Um, also, she did mention that her dream collaboration would be pit bull. And let me tell you something about my amazing dreamy hot ass boyfriend. He talks to me yesterday and he goes, Make sure you take this night off work because you and me are getting our freak on at the pitbull concert. And I said, Oh my god, I'm freaking out. And I can't believe that this man got took us to see Pitbull because, first of all, that shit ain't cheap, and I'm I'm bewildered at the fact that first of all, second of all, he's gonna go with me. Like, that is a sacrifice, and um, I'll I'll update you obviously after the fact. But if we make it through there and he sees me act a fool in public, but little John is gonna be there. Like, I talk about that man all the time. As a fitness instructor, if you don't hear little John within an hour of waking, like are you even a fitness instructor? So I'm just like flabbergasted, like completely, like, I cannot believe I'm going to see Pitbull. Like, my dreams are coming true. It's so incredible with my favorite person in the world who I love dearly. And um, yeah, so I'm so excited. And every time I think about it, I'm just like, I'm like giddy. Like, I cannot believe it. It's the sweetest thing anyone has ever done for me. And um, yeah, so I'm like obviously the luckiest girl in the whole wide world, and I love Danny so much, and he's my best friend, and I know it's really um people are like, ewing, don't call your boyfriend your best friend. He is, and it's not just because I don't have any friends, it's because he's literally my best friend. Anyway, um, isn't that so cute? Like, it's so cute it makes me want to like gag on a spoon, but I won't because like I deserve it. Oh my god. And he does too. Like, I can't believe he puts up with me. I'm literally the most annoying person in the world. I can't shut up. Have you noticed? It's been eight and a half minutes. I haven't shut up yet. Um, oh I started this podcast with the new Mega the Stallion song, which is coming out hopefully soon. There's also a new Tanache song coming out tomorrow. It's gonna be amazing. The girls are delivering, and what are the boys doing? I don't know. I don't know what the guys are doing. I don't know what Benson Boone's up to, but he's not dropping bangers every week, right? The girls are just the girls are grilling and I love it so much. Um, I like don't run anymore, and that's okay because you don't need to run all the time to be a runner. I run once a week now on a treadmill interval style, and it's basically torture. I will talk about the weather for one second. We did skip the 60s and 70s temperature-wise, and we went straight to like 80s. So, running weather is like not there for me right now. I'm more into like a leisurely walk, which I that has okay. We've got to stop coining crazy terms on TikTok, but I saw one today about a lymphatic drainage walk, and the AI dictionary basically told me that that was taking a walk at a leisurely pace. Isn't that just going for a walk? Like, what? It's supposed to be like a pace where your body can just like not like hoard any cortisol or be stressed out or like consider it a workout. It's a lymphatic drainage walk. Like, this is insane. Every nothing is real and everything's a simulation, like nothing matters. Every influencer you know is on a peptide, is on a semi-glutide, like every single person, even people you know in real life, and it's fine. Do whatever you want to do with your body, but I just want you to know that if if you're not someone who's doing that, which is totally fine, everybody please just do what makes you feel good, and that it's not a shortcut. I take a bazillion supplements and I'm copped up on caffeine all the time. It's just not my budget to be on a peptide, and that's okay. But it like just do whatever is good for you. I'm not against it, I don't look down upon people who are. It's just like if I want to work out for two hours every day, that's what I want to do. That's how I plan my life because I also want to eat a ton of food, and like I get so much joy from eating and um cooking. I love cooking. My my meal prep moment on Sunday or Monday is like my favorite thing in the world. I put my laptop on my counter. Now that Love Island is started, I'm gonna be able to catch up on that, and it's just it's so exciting. First of all, Love Island is garbage, but I fucking love garbage. I love it so much is my favorite thing in the world. It's such a distraction from life. I do not look at the news, it does not matter. Nothing is real. We are all made from one cell and the big bang or whatever. Have you ever thought about outer space and then gone a little crazy? Because, like, it it it's like terrifying but also soothing at the same time. If you just think like we're just floating around in the solar system amongst many other solar systems, and like who the heck figured out what a light year was? Like, that's crazy. Who is like, I don't know. I can't believe people are are that brilliant, and I still have trouble spelling the word your your and your. But anyway, um, what else can I talk about? Zara Larson. Oh, my song of the summer is Euro Summer by Zara Larson featuring Shagira. Fucking banger. Everything she does is a banger. She's also the sweetest person in the whole wide world. I just feel like we would have so much fun together. Her, me, and Miley Cyrus. Oh, and Charlie could be there too. Oh my god, could you imagine if Charlie and Zara Larson did a collab? That would be freaking incredible. I would love that. Charlie's new album is dropping in July, which is very exciting. And I'm excited. I love Spring Summer 26. I think it's an amazing song. I'm also loving this girl, Slater. She has this song called Crank. So two years ago we had Brat Summer. Now we have Crank Summer. If I haven't told you before, one of my biggest coping and coping mechanisms with being sober is listening to songs about doing drugs. I don't know. I just think it's really fun. Not to do drugs, but to like listen to songs about doing drugs and drinking. And I think that that's totally fine. Like, you don't have to do drugs to listen to songs about it. Also, like I listen to Megan the Stallion and like freaking Glorilla and freaking JT and like all the girlies, and like I'm not doing all that. I mean, I'm doing some of it, but not like all of it, you know? Um, what else did I want to talk about? It's been 12 minutes. I'm talking really fast. Um, I've been hitting the Stairmaster a lot. I have one 10 mile race coming up in like 60 days, and I really probably should be training for it. But it's one of those, it's a fun race at nighttime on a Friday at 6 p.m. So it's basically just just for fun and survival, and it's for a good cause, and my boyfriend's doing it, so that's exciting for me. Um and then in August, I have a few concerts. Well, I have more than a few. I have Hillary Def, Good Charlotte, I'm going to see Nikki Glazer, and I'm going to see Pippin and Lil John. Like it's amazing. I have a really fun summer, and yeah, I just have to like work really hard. I think I need to be working more. Um Yeah, so if anybody has any leads on jobs, please let me know. Because I I could use another one. That would be pretty cool. Um I saw this movie Obsession, which if you haven't heard of it, it's a horror movie done by this YouTuber, and it's basically about this guy, and he makes a wish to make his crush um be obsessed with him, and so she does become obsessed with him in a very scary way. But the scariest part about it is like the way that she acts is like definitely a way that I've acted before. And so now, like everything I say or think, like, I can't tell Danny I'm obsessed with him anymore, which is something I've done many a time. However, I am obsessed with him, but you know who I am really obsessed with and I can't stop crying over is Taylor Swift's wedding. Like, I've never met her in real life, she is not my friend, but I we've been through so much together, and like every time I listen to like I've been listening to a lot of Taylor Swift lately just because I feel in my heart that she's getting married soon. And although she might be like jokes on jokes on you guys that we've been married, but I don't know, I feel like she would include us on it. I heard a rumor that she might get be getting married at Madison Square Garden, but like I don't know, it seems like a weird place to get married, but it is super private. I don't know, we'll see. And that that's so exciting. I just feel like I'm really, really happy for her, and I love the content that her and Travis are in, like him shotgunning a beer and her like seemingly embarrassed, but like she's not because she like lives for it and loves it, and she loves that he gets to like she loves when he's being himself, and I think that's so sweet and so cute, and I'm like so happy for her. Um also I don't know. I'm really into Japanese sweet potato right now, and oh my god, I got a ninja creamy. It's my favorite thing in the whole world. I have one every single day. Well, every single night. And then my favorite thing is like when I prep it in the morning, I talk out loud like I'm an influencer. I'm like, okay, so now I'm putting in a cup and a half of cashew milk, and then I'm putting in a lot of salt, and then I put Santhem gum and sugar-free jello pudding, and then I have whatever scoop of protein, and then that's my base. And then the trick is you mix it up with um not just like your coffee frother, but like an immersion blender, and that is the game changer. So highly recommend getting a ninja creamy. You literally eat a pint of ice cream for like 230 calories every single night. And I did order these like chocolate bars from Target because I'm easily influenced from TikTok. They're called like Hornbull's crumbles or something. But I'll give I'll let you know in about three months whenever record another podcast how they are. But they're like zero sugar, 10 grains of protein. I don't know, but I'm gonna throw it in my creamy, and I'm really excited about it. Other than that, I'm gonna go see Scary Movie with my boyfriend this weekend, which I'm really excited about. Can you believe I've said that sentence? I like literally can't get over it. Um, so lucky. He's so cute. Um, what else is happening? I don't know. Music, fitness, sleep, eat. I feel like that's all I do. I would say I'd get another hobby, but like I don't need one. I have been taking a lot of like fitness classes lately. I love taking Legree where I work. Um, I also started taking this like heated, like dancey dance class. It's like giving Tracy Anderson, but it's like not. It's super fun. And I love taking a heated class. It just feels like you're sweating out your demons, and that's something I definitely need to do. And I love anything that feels like a dance class. Like, give me an eight count, and I'm just like I'm in heaven. Like I live for that shit. Plus, I don't know, like loud ass music, sweaty people, like it's like you're at a rave, but like at a normal time of the day, and I really love that so much. I'm gonna leave you here. I just wanted to record just a little bit, but this has been so much fun for me. Um, subscribe, review, rate if you want, and come back for the next one. All right, love you, bye.