Fortniteis 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 inFortnite’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 inFortnite, joining artists like Dua Lipa andBruno Mars who already haveFortniteemotes
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Fortnitehas 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 albumSpecial, 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, andFortnitemade 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 withJames Cordenand 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 troupe of background dancers, including Jaeden Gomez herself.
With popularity like that, It’s no wonder the dance became the latestTikTok trend to become aFortniteemote.With its constant collaborations with video game IPs, film franchises, and musical artists,Fortniteis on a continuous quest to stay relevant. Connecting with someone like Lizzo and ensuring the TikTok personality who choreographed the piece is included is a move that will surely please players. In fact, comments on the tweet signal that fans are already very on board.
The other hot topic in the comments though, was fans clamoring to have their preferred emotes orskins being added toFortnite. With such a passionate and invested fan base, it seems like the developers won’t run out of new ideas anytime soon.
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