One of the tracks from the album, which is named SOS, is called "Kill Bill". She said: "this album is going to be the shit that made me feel something in my.here and in here", pointing to her heart and gut. Commenting on the creative process behind the album, she stated it would be as candid and personal as Ctrl: "This next album is even more of me being less afraid of who am I when I have no choice? When I'm not out trying to curate myself and contain." When SZA collaborated with Cosmopolitan for their February 2021 issue, she spoke about her creative process behind the album's conception.
SZA alluded to potentially releasing her second album as early as August 2019 during an interview with DJ Kerwin Frost. The album brought SZA to mainstream fame, and critics credit it with establishing her status as a major figure in contemporary pop and R&B music and pushing the boundaries of the R&B genre.
Primarily an R&B album that deals with themes like heartbreak, Ctrl received widespread acclaim for its vocal performances and eclectic musical style, as well as the relatability, emotional impact, and confessional nature of its songwriting. SZA released her debut studio album, Ctrl, in 2017. SZA performing in Ctrl the Tour (2017–2018) The prop was a callback to one scene in Volume 1, where the Bride fought an antagonist who tried to kill her with a meteor hammer. When she debuted the song on a 19-show North American tour in support of SOS, she recreated her costume in the music video, and she had a spiked ball and chain in hand that she swung across the stage. The video ends as SZA confronts her ex-boyfriend and pulls his heart out, killing him. Fox, one of the actresses who starred in the duology, in a supporting role. Directed by Christian Breslauer, it reimagines several scenes from the Kill Bill films, featuring SZA as a rendition of the Bride and Vivica A. RCA Records promoted "Kill Bill" to US radio on January 10, 2023, as the fifth single from SOS, attributing the decision to its streaming numbers.Ī music video for the song premiered on the same day. The song reached the top 10 in over 10 territories worldwide, with number one peaks in six countries. Bolstered by its success on streaming services, "Kill Bill" surpassed " Kiss Me More" as SZA's highest-charting song in the United States, peaking at number 2 for seven weeks, and it became her first number one on the US Streaming Songs and Billboard Global 200 charts.
They found her murder fantasies extreme but relatable to a degree, due to its underlying sentiments of doing whatever it takes for love. It is backed by electric bass, guitars, and a flute sample produced from a Mellotron.Ĭritics praised "Kill Bill" for its candid exploration of SZA's unfiltered, violent emotions. "Kill Bill" is a pop and R&B song built around a midtempo, groovy rhythm and a detuned melody. Mirroring the films' plot, the song's lyrics discuss SZA's fantasy to kill an ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend out of jealousy. The song gets its title from Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) and Volume 2 (2004), a martial arts film duology that focuses on an assassin named the Bride and her quest to exact revenge on her ex-boyfriend by murdering him. " Kill Bill" is a song by American singer-songwriter SZA from her second studio album, SOS (2022).
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