Lizzo's record is literally music to the world's ears, but some critics were not pleased with the singer's recent Washington, D.C. performance. They criticised her for using a 200-year-old crystal flute that previously belonged to former U.S. President James Madison.
On Friday's broadcast of the venerable talk programme, however, the female hosts of The View defended Lizzo. Lizzo's performance, according to new conservative cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin, "drew attention to history," while Ana Navarro emphasised that Lizzo is a "classically trained" flautist with extensive experience in the performing arts.
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NOBODY HAS EVER HEARD THIS FAMOUS CRYSTAL FLUTE BEFORE
NOW YOU HAVE
IM THE FIRST & ONLY PERSON TO EVER PLAY THIS PRESIDENTIAL 200-YEAR-OLD CRYSTAL FLUTE— THANK YOU @librarycongress  pic.twitter.com/VgXjpC49sO
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Sunny Hostin stated that before permitting Lizzo to perform on Madison's flute on Tuesday night, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden requested that Lizzo visit the government's collection of around 1,700 flutes on Monday.
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"She invited Lizzo to come and do this, and that makes it history," Hostin said. "Then you have some people on the right who said that the Library of Congress really took out its 200-year-old flute that belonged to James Madison just so Lizzo could twerk with it [and that would] degrade our history."
"Well," she continued, "James Madison owned 100 slaves — that's a degradation of history. It's a full-circle moment for American history… This is the promise of America: You have a slave's ancestor playing the 200-year-old flute."
You didn't think @lizzo played that antique flute on stage without practicing first, did you? She visited the Library Monday & played several of the flutes in our collection, which is the largest in the world. #LizzoAtLOC
See & hear more from her visit: https://t.co/eZiAVrAGWZ pic.twitter.com/d6T0Iy9hVX
Library of Congress (@librarycongress) September 28, 2022
Lizzo made a little medley with the crystal flute during the performance, and she afterwards celebrated being the first to play it.
"NOBODY HAS EVER HEARD THIS FAMOUS CRYSTAL FLUTE BEFORE. NOW YOU HAVE," Following the performance, Lizzo tweeted about using the illustrious instrument that Madison had been given by Claude Laurent, a Parisian watchmaker, in the early 1800s.
