
Kacey Musgraves has given SZA’s ‘Kill Bill’ a country twist in a BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge session
'Middle of Nowhere' arrives on 1st May through Lost Highway Records.
About This Track
Released in 2020, 'Hit Different' pairs SZA with Ty Dolla $ign over production from The Neptunes. The track's title phrase becomes a mantra across the chorus, Ty Dolla $ign and SZA trading the line as SZA examines the particular ache of solitude and jealousy. The repetition feels less like hook-writing laziness than a kind of fixation, the words turning over until they lose shape.
SZA's verses sketch a relationship marked by misalignment and overdraft, the narrator drawn deeper into affection through argument rather than harmony. She admits to liking the way her partner screws their face up, needing the trigger even when it's wrong. The second verse shifts to a cooler posture, claiming to be chill, pretending indifference when she sees him out, but the song's structure betrays the performance. The Neptunes' spare, off-kilter production leaves room for the contradictions to breathe.
The pre-chorus offers a flicker of self-awareness: 'Mirrors inside me / They recognize you'. It's a moment of clarity that doesn't resolve anything, the song circling back to the title phrase as if stuck in the loop it describes.
"Hit Different" is a track by SZA, from the album Hit Different - Single, released 4th September 2020. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about SZA.
About the Artist
Lyrics
Lyrics provided by LRCLIB
View full lyrics page →Track details
More from SZA
Explore
Credits

'Middle of Nowhere' arrives on 1st May through Lost Highway Records.

There’s a pop dungeon where artists live, sometimes for years, where they say, “it’s coming!” about an album that’s in the works (ahem, Rihanna, ahem, Sky Ferreira). SZA did a stint down there after releasing her cult and critical fave debut ‘Ctrl’ in 2017.
A great leap forward from now indisputable pop superstar.

The clip follows SZA as she exacts her revenge on her ex-boyfriend.

A 20 second clip appears to be heavily influenced by the Quentin Tarantino film of the same name.

It sounds like that's not all they recorded, either.