She found him a complex and nuanced character that "doesn't understand why he did what he did". While watching the films, Bill caught SZA's attention. Bill was a former love interest, who failed to have Kiddo killed on the day of her wedding. The plot centers on Beatrix " the Bride" Kiddo and her plans to murder Bill, head of the enemy Deadly Viper assassins of which she was a past member. It gets its title from the Kill Bill films (2003–2004), a martial arts film duology directed by Quentin Tarantino. One of the tracks from the album, named SOS, is called "Kill Bill". She stated: "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. In her words, the album was "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. It, she said, retained the candid and personal qualities of Ctrl.
SZA alluded to possibly releasing her second album as early as August 2019, during an interview with DJ Kerwin Frost. 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.
The album brought SZA to mainstream fame. Primarily an R&B album that deals with themes like heartbreak, Ctrl received widespread acclaim for SZA's vocals and the 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) SZA had a spiked meteor hammer in hand that she swung across the stage, a callback to a fight scene in Volume 1. On the SOS Tour, where she first performed "Kill Bill" live, she recreated various visual elements from the music video, including the costume. SZA confronts her ex-boyfriend at the end and tears his heart out (but a special outro, set to another song, shows her bound with rope). 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, with SZA as her version of the Bride and Vivica A. On US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, "Kill Bill" broke the record set by " Old Town Road" (2019) for the chart's longest-running number one, with 21 weeks.Ī music video for the song premiered the same day as its single release. It tied with three other songs for the second-most weeks at number two before reaching the top. Boosted by a remix featuring American rapper Doja Cat three months later, the solo version of "Kill Bill" topped the US Billboard Hot 100, her first single to do so, after eight weeks at number two. On January 10, 2023, RCA Records sent the song to US radio as the fifth single from SOS, attributing the decision to its streaming numbers. It gave SZA her first number one on the Billboard Global 200. They found her murder fantasies extreme but relatable to a degree, due to its underlying sentiments of doing whatever it takes for love.Īchieving success on streaming services, "Kill Bill" went number one in seven territories worldwide and reached the top 10 in eight more. The song's candid exploration of SZA's unfiltered, violent emotions were a point of praise for critics. Influenced by the boom bap subgenre of hip hop, it is backed by guitars, a bassline, and a flute sampled from a Prophet-6 synthesizer. "Kill Bill" is an 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 (2003–2004), a martial arts film duology that focuses on an assassin named the Bride and her quest to exact revenge on her ex-boyfriend through murder. " Kill Bill" is a song by American singer-songwriter SZA from her second studio album, SOS (2022).
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