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SZA

Supermodel

Release date: 8th June 2017

From Ctrl
Track 1
3:01
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About This Track

The opening track from SZA's debut studio album 'Ctrl', released in June 2017 through Top Dawg Entertainment and RCA Records, 'Supermodel' sets the tone for the record's unflinching examination of romantic dependency. The song earned a Grammy nomination for Best R&B Song at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards in 2018, part of a five-nomination haul that included Best New Artist and Best Urban Contemporary Album for the album itself.

SZA writes a breakup letter in real time, the narrator caught between fury and self-awareness. She admits to retaliatory infidelity whilst her partner was in Vegas on Valentine's Day, then pivots to the central admission: 'I could be your supermodel if you believe / If you see it in me, see it in me, see it in me / I don't see myself.' The conditional is the wound. She needs external validation to feel whole, a pattern she recognises but cannot break, the chorus cycling through the same question: 'Why I can't stay alone just by myself?'

The production is spare, the better to foreground the tension between what she knows and what she does. Since the album's release, SZA has opened every performance with this song, a deliberate threshold into the emotional architecture of 'Ctrl'.

"Supermodel" is a track by SZA, from the album Ctrl, released 8th June 2017. The track is 3:01 long. It's filed under R&B/Soul. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about SZA.

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SZA

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Supermodel

That is my greatest fear
That if, if I lost control
Or did not have control, things would just, you know?
I would be, fatal

I'm writing this letter to let you know I'm really leaving
And no, I'm not keeping your shit
Heard you got some new homies
Got some new hobbies, even a new hoe too
Maybe she can come help you
Maybe she can come lick you after we're done
What's done is done
I don't want nothing else to do with it

Let me tell you a secret
I've been secretly banging your homeboy
Why you in Vegas all up on Valentine's Day?
Why am I so easy to forget like that?
It can't be that easy for you to get like that
Oh no, she didn't, ooh yes, I did
Oh no, she didn't, I'll do it again

Leave me lonely for prettier women
You know I need too much attention for shit like that
You know you wrong for shit like that
I could be your supermodel if you believe
If you see it in me, see it in me, see it in me
I don't see myself
Why I can't stay alone just by myself?
Wish I was comfortable just with myself
But I need you, but I need you, but I need you

Ooh, just get a load of them, they got chemistry
All they could say, we like brother and sister
Look so good together, bet they fuckin' for real
And they was right, that's why I stayed with ya
The, the dick was too good, it made me feel good
For temporary love
You was a temporary lover

Leave me lonely for prettier women
You know I need too much attention for shit like that
You know you wrong for shit like that
I could be your supermodel if you believe
If you see it in me, see it in me, see it in me
I don't see myself
Why I can't stay alone just by myself?
Wish I was comfortable just with myself
But I need you, but I need you, but I need you

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  1. 1Supermodel
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  2. 3Doves In The Wind (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
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  3. 4Drew Barrymore
    3:51
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    3:16
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