Lizzo has slammed the MET Gala after she took to the red carpet for the first time at last year’s star-studded event.

The annual ball, hosted by Vogue’s Anna Wintour, is the biggest night in fashion as well as a fundraiser held for the benefit of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York City.

Speaking in an Instagram Live the hitmaker, 35, had a laundry list of complaints following her debut from the lack of seating to the amount of alcohol on offer.

Lizzo, who performed an incredible flute solo on the red carpet said: ‘There’s a long f***ing line. I’m taking the glamour away from it but it’s true. You’ve gotta wait’.  

‘So you’re waiting and that’s the hardest part. I was sweating in a big-ass coat, my feet were hurting’.

Unimpressed: Lizzo has slammed the MET Gala after she took to the red carpet for t he first time at last year’s star-studded event (pictured at 2022’s event)

Fuming: Speaking in an Instagram Live the hitmaker, 35, had a laundry list of complaints from the lack of seating to the amounts of alcohol on offer

Star-studded: The annual ball, hosted by Vogue’s Anna Wintour (pictured at the event in 2022) is the biggest night in fashion and fundraiser held for the benefit of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York City

‘They don’t have no chairs, no cocktails. I was like, ‘Bitch? Can we get some chairs or some drinks or some hors d’oeuvres?’.

Once inside Lizzo said she was left gutted when a waiter informed her that the only choice of alcohol was red or white wine. 

She recalled: ‘They were being really stingy with the liquor that night. He was like, ‘Red or white wine?’.

‘And I was like, ‘Tequila! Do you know what I’ve been through? Do you know how many hours I’ve been in this corset? How long I’ve been in these damn shoes? Tequila!’. 

Speaking about her red performance she said: ‘I had this plan to play the flute and do the whole intro [of a classical piece] but I got nervous and I only played it once because all the photographers were heckling me’. 

‘They were like, ‘You’re putting us to sleep with the flute!’

‘I was like, ‘OK?’ In my mind I thought everyone was going to be transfixed.

Before adding: ‘So I only played it once, only the first half of it. Then I posed and got the photos.’

Overlooked: Speaking about her flute performance on the red carpet Lizzo said: ‘I had this plan to play the flute and do the whole intro [of a classical piece] but I got nervous and I only played it once because all the photographers were heckling me’

Smile! And while her new boyfriend Myke Wright was nowhere to be found, the University of Houston drop-out excitedly TikToked her close encounter with Euphoria star Jacob Elordi (L)

Star struck: Lizzo got to hang out with 10-time Grammy-nominated rapper Nicki Minaj (L), four-time Grammy-winning singer Erykah Badu (2-L), and Grammy-winning singer SZA (2-R)

However despite her grievances she went on to admit that she had a wonderful time at the event: ‘This is like prom for celebrities . . . My prom f***ing sucked.

‘Now I feel like the Grammys and the Met Ball, they’re like my prom.

Before adding: ‘It’s like the musicians I am with are the peers I went to high school with and I just treat it like that.’

At the event Lizzo wore a black Thom Browne corset gown featuring garter belt cut-outs beneath a glamorous golden embellished coat selected by stylist Jason Rembert. 

‘It’s incredible. Hand-beaded – it took 22,000 hours to make this coat,’ Lizzo (born Melissa Jefferson) told Vogue on the red carpet. 

Honour: This year’s theme is Karl Lagerfeld: A Thing of Beauty, paying tribute to the legendary German designer, who died in 2019 after helming the French fashion house Chanel since 1983 (Karl pictured at the Gala in 2008)

‘I’m just so happy to be in it. I feel like a piece of art.’

Hairstylist Shelbeniece Swain coiffed the About Damn Time hitmaker’s partial finger-waved wig and make-up artist Alex Mayo applied her lashes and vampy pout.

And while  boyfriend Myke Wright was nowhere to be found, the University of Houston drop-out excitedly TikToked her close encounter with Euphoria star Jacob Elordi.

Lizzo got to hang out with 10-time Grammy-nominated rapper Nicki Minaj, four-time Grammy-winning singer Erykah Badu, and Grammy-winning singer SZA.

The Proud Family guest star gushed that four-time Grammy-winner Lenny Kravitz was the ‘greatest of all time’ during his live performance.

Lizzo took selfies with The Matrix Resurrections action star Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as well as eight-time Grammy winner Anderson .Paak.

The ‘body-normative’ star seemed especially tickled when five-time Grammy nominee Chlöe Bailey snuck a selfie on her phone when she wasn’t looking.

This year’s theme is Karl Lagerfeld: A Thing of Beauty, paying tribute to the legendary German designer, who died in 2019 after helming the French fashion house Chanel since 1983.