Fortnite Adds Lizzo Emote

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Fortnite is sure to be pleasing Lizzo fans with a new emote themed around the famous artist. With it, Lizzo joins the many celebrities and social media personalities who have now had a part of themselves immortalized in Fortnite's virtual world.

The Pop/R&B artist has attained huge success in recent years winning many awards, including multiple Grammy's. She's gained notoriety not only for her uplifting lyrics and belting voice but the positivity she espouses. Now Lizzo is reaching another great milestone in her career: getting her own emote in Fortnite, joining artists like Dua Lipa and Bruno Mars who already have Fortnite emotes

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Fortnite has now announced on Twitter that Lizzo's hit song «About Damn Time» is the inspiration for a new emote. The song was the lead single from her album Special, and was a huge hit in spring of this year. The emote has the character moving to a viral TikTok dance developed by prominent social media personality, dancer, and choreographer Jaeden Gomez, and Fortnite made sure to give the artist a shout-out in the tweet.

Gomez, upon hearing the song, was inspired to create a dance that made people feel confident and draw out their inner badass. After posting to TikTok, the video gained popularity, eventually making its way to Lizzo herself, who fell in love with it. While at Coachella, Lizzo performed the dance and posted to social media. From there, the dance went viral, exploding all in popularity on TikTok and social media in general. Later, Lizzo appeared on Carpool Karaoke with James Corden and the pair sang «About Damn Time» only to be interrupted when Corden decided he wanted to learn the famous dance. Lizzo proceeded to get out of the car and call a