"Kill Bill" is a song by American singer-songwriterSZA and the fifth single from her second studio album,SOS (2022). It is apop andR&Bmurder ballad, built around amidtempo,groovy rhythm and adetuned melody.Guitars, abassline, and aflute that wassampled from aProphet-6 synthesizer constitute the song's production, which is influenced by theboom bap subgenre ofhip hop. Mirroring the plot of theKill Bill film duology (2003–2004) after which the song is named, the lyrics discuss a fantasy to kill an ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend out of jealousy, and they employ humorous irony alongside violent imagery that contrasts with SZA's soft vocals. "Kill Bill" was sent to US radio on January 10, 2023, after achieving success on streaming services.
A chart-topper in several territories, "Kill Bill" was SZA's first number-one on theBillboard Global 200 and USHot 100 charts. The song spent eight weeks at number two on theBillboard Hot 100 before an April 2023 remix featuring American rapperDoja Cat propelled the solo version to the top, tying for the second-longest time at number two before reaching number one. On USHot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, it broke the record set byLil Nas X's "Old Town Road" (2019) for the chart's longest-running number one, with 21 weeks. "Kill Bill" was one of the top 10 best-performing songs of 2023 in several countries, and according to theInternational Federation of the Phonographic Industry, it was the third best-selling single of 2023.
Amusic video for the song premiered the same day as its single release. Directed byChristian Breslauer, it reimagines several scenes from theKill Bill films, with SZA as her version ofthe films' protagonist andVivica A. Fox, one of the actresses who starred in the duology, in a supporting role. SZA confronts her ex-boyfriend at the end and tears his heart out, and the outro features her suspended by a rope using theshibari technique. On theSOS Tour, where she first performed "Kill Bill", she recreated various visual elements from the film duology and the music video, such as the costume. Other live performances also involved sword props and, in some cases, choreography inspired by theKill Bill films, featuring background dancers who participated in swordfight scenes.
In 2017,SZA released her commercially successful and well-acclaimed debut studio album,Ctrl.[1][2] Critics throughout the years have credited it as being innovative within theR&B genre, and for establishing her as a major figure incontemporary pop and R&B music.[a] SZA spoke inCtrl variously about romance, desire, and self-esteem, often in a vulnerable tone, as well as the many ways in which emotions like jealousy and intense desire can destroy them.[8][9]
One of the tracks from her subsequent studio album,SOS, is "Kill Bill". It is titled after theKill Bill films (2003–2004),[10] amartial arts film duology that centers onBeatrix "the Bride" Kiddo and her former lover, the head of a deadly assassin group named Bill. The plot is driven by the Bride's quest for revenge after Bill tried to have her killed on the day of her wedding.[11][12]
While watching the films, Bill caught SZA's attention and she was inspired to create the song based on his behavior. She described him as a character who "doesn't understand why he did what he did", adding that he was "void of emotion, but he loved the Bride so much that he couldn't stand her to be with anyone else."[13][14]American Songwriter's Alex Hopper, writing about how the song's lyrics reflected the films' plot, noted that jealousy was Bill's motive for the assassination attempt. In the film'sVolume 2, he told the Bride that "[t]here are consequences to breaking the heart of a murdering bastard", which Hopper said was the same justification SZA uses in the song for committing murder.[15]
"Kill Bill" was produced byRob Bisel andCarter Lang, who wrote the song with SZA.[28] Its creation, by SZA's account, was "super easy", and she deemed it a "one take, one night" type of song.[note 1] While work onSOS had begun by 2019, "Kill Bill" was recorded in 2022 alongside a significant number of other tracks due to bursts of productivity from time pressure. Lang commented, "that's when [we] started feeling like, hey, 'We gotta do this shit like, it's been some years.' We bottled up that energy and everything was just sort of a preparation for that moment."[28]
Production began around May 2022 when Bisel, in his Los Angeles home's Ponzu Studios, played some chords on hisProphet-6 synthesizer. With it, he usedAbleton tosample the synthesizer'sflute-like sound. After adding abassline from anelectric guitar tuned down anoctave, Bisel was unsure where he wanted the song to go, so he sent the Ableton clip to Lang for assistance.[21][28] Lang's first approach to the beat consisted of a singularrhythm, which was an electronic fusion of bouncybass drums,Roland TR-808 snares, and 16th-notehi-hat beats.[30] Settling on apolyrhythmic production with aswing style, he took more beats from a separate, vintagedrum machine and made them twice as slow as the first approach, and he added more guitars and bass on top.[21][31] The two also incorporated a choir and backing vocals into the song. Most of the final version's instruments were recorded at Lang's home studio in Chicago.[21]
Bisel askedPunch, president of SZA's labelTop Dawg Entertainment, if he couldmix "Kill Bill" on his own, to which Punch agreed. To Bisel, if anyone else took the task, the sonic vision he conjured for the song would get diluted: "I really wanted to see it through all the way to the end." His mentality for the sessions, which consisted of 120 tracks, was mixing the song "as if [he] had never heard the song before", a departure from his usual approach. Since reinforcing the song's boom bap influences was his primary goal, part of the task was making the drums from the rough recordings louder.[21]
"Kill Bill", which was under theworking title "Igloo", had five or six differentdemos from which Bisel and Lang had to pick for SZA.[21] When she listened to the demos one night in July 2022,[32] she immediately gravitated towards the boom bap beat, which Bisel and Lang happened to like the most.[21] About a week later,[21] on July 13,[33] SZA was alone with Bisel in the studio for recording sessions,[28] asking him to loop the beat in the background.[21] He left her alone in a corner to give her space to ideate. It took five to ten minutes for SZA to come up with the hook's melody and lyrics, which she wrote on her phone.[21][32] Humming the melodies, she turned to Bisel to say about the lyrics, "I have an idea. This might be a little too crazy, but let me know what you think."[28] Within one day, the entire song was finished—SZA needed only one or two takes to record the vocals.[30][32]
SZA toldGlamour in 2022 that many tracks inSOS centered around themes of revenge, heartbreak, and "being pissed": "I've never raged the way that I should have. This is my villain era, and I'm very comfortable with that. It is in the way I say no[...] It's in the fucked up things that I don't apologize for."[34] The premise of "Kill Bill" is heavily based on theKill Bill films, a reimagining of Thurman's tale of revenge. Shaad D'Souza ofThe Guardian wrote that unlike the films, however, the song "provides no real emotional payoff; its narrative is a cry of purefatalism, with no return for its narrator other than a split-second of bloodlust".[26]
"Kill Bill" was written during one of what SZA called "palate cleanser" moments, sessions where she would quickly write full songs in between ones she took more seriously and wanted to meticulously finish.[35] With "Kill Bill", she wrote all of the lyrics on-the-spot in under an hour.[32] What resulted was a song about a protagonist who goes on a quest to avenge her broken heart by murdering her ex-boyfriend for quickly moving on from their relationship.[15][17] The violent lyrics are juxtaposed by SZA's soft,croon-like vocals, suggesting wholesomeness.[36] Due to the violence, some radio stations played acensored version of "Kill Bill" with the word "kill" replaced by the sound of a slashing blade.[37]
In the first verse, the protagonist acts analogously to Bill, resentful about the new girlfriend that her ex-boyfriend has met: "Hate to see you with some other broad, know you happy/Hate to see you happy if I'm not the one drivin'."[15] Restraining her murderous urges, she tries to look at the situation from a rational perspective.[17] In aSlant Magazine review, Paul Attard writes that SZA explores how intense love and intense anger towards somebody can often coexist with one another. In spite of her fury, her love for her ex-boyfriend persists.[10] She tries to navigate her issues through consultations with a therapist, making her dryly say she is mature and mockingly congratulate herself for it.[17][38][39]
Her therapist has advised her to seek other men, but she loves her ex-boyfriend to such a degree that she would rather still be with him than with anyone else. According to her, if she cannot have him back, then "no one should".[20][40] What follows is the hook, in which she openly fantasizes about killing him and his new girlfriend. She acknowledges, self-aware, that her intrusive thoughts are unhealthy and wonders "how'd I get here?"[41][42] Some critics argued that SZA amplifies the hook's unsettling nature and criminal themes using melodies evocative of lullabies.[5][42][43] ForPhilippine Daily Inquirer journalist Carl Martin Agustin, the hook conjures the imagery of "the bride preparing her mark for his eternal slumber".[16] Thurman's character manifests itself within SZA in the hook, moving the perspective away from Bill's. Despite hesitations, she begins her plans for revenge. SZA ends the hook with the line "Rather be in jail than alone."[15]
The song's next lyrics narrate how she carefully peruses past messages with her ex-boyfriend that might implicate her in the murder.[17] The final hook contains several line changes[15] that mark the culmination of the violent ideations that manifested in the first hook. SZA enacts the double homicide, solidifying the song's nature as amurder ballad.[44] Reasoning with herself, she claims what she did to her ex-boyfriend was an act of love[27] and is not something that she regrets doing.[20] Music journalists fromTriple J[45] andPitchfork found this humorous;Pitchfork's Julianne Escobedo Shepherd wrote: "It's so funny to imagine killing someone and his new girl and then have a fleeting second thought about it. Like, 'Maybe I shouldn't have done that. Oh well!'"[44]
The last lyric of the final hook, and the last lyric of the song, contrasts with the first hook. "I might kill my ex, not the best idea/His new girlfriend's next," becomes "I just killed my ex, not the best idea/Killed his girlfriend next."[15] This final lyric shows her admission she would pick damnation in hell over his absence from her life. The "Rather be in jail than alone" from the previous hooks becomes "Rather be in hell than alone."[15][46] Some critics wrote that the last line unveiled the song's underlying tones of loneliness and turned "Kill Bill" into atragedy.[44][47] InNylon, Steffanee Wang thought it "will make you wonder how SZA can generate such devastation from such simplicity".[48]
From April to May 2022, SZA told media outlets that she had recently finished the album inHawaii and said it was coming soon.[49] During aBillboard cover story published in November, SZA revealed the album title and release date, which was scheduled sometime next month.[50] On December 5, 2022, she posted the album's track list onTwitter, andSOS was released four days later. Out of 23 songs, "Kill Bill" appears as the second track;[51][52] following its success on streaming platforms,RCA Records chose it as the next radiosingle from the album.[53]
RCA and Top Dawg sent the song to US pop,[54][55] rhythmic,[56] and urban radio[57] on January 10, 2023, as the fifth single fromSOS.[58][note 2] Originally, only "Nobody Gets Me" (2023) was scheduled to impact pop radio on January 10. However, RCA and various radio programmers eventually decided to promote the two songs simultaneously despite the intricacies of planning dual singles, citing the large streaming numbers that "Kill Bill" gained in December and the radio-friendly appeal of the lyrics and production.[37] "Kill Bill" became one of the week's most-added songs on pop and rhythmic formats,[60] with 2,257 plays from 129 pop radio stations.[37] Top Dawg and RCA pushed it toR&B radio stations three weeks later.[61]
On January 13, 2023, Top Dawg and RCA released a four-track bundle of the song to digital download and streaming platforms.[62] Apart from the original version of "Kill Bill", the release contains asped-up version, an instrumental version, and ana cappella version.[63] An acoustic version of the song, with a different cover art, was released on January 24.[64] The sped-up version capitalizes and is based on aviral trend onTikTok where users would increase the pitch and tempo of certain songs and post them on the application. One user shared a sped-up audio of "Kill Bill" upon the release ofSOS, and it was viewed over 21.7million times, liked over 1.9million times, and reposted in over 1.1million videos,[65][60] boosting streams for the song.[66]
Doja Cat featured on the official remix for "Kill Bill", their second collaboration after "Kiss Me More".
In 2021, SZA collaborated with American rapperDoja Cat for the song "Kiss Me More",[67] serving as the lead single from the latter's third studio album,Planet Her (2021).[68] Their next collaboration was set to be "Shirt",SOS's third single.[69] Three months after SZA teased "Shirt" was a collaboration, Punch toldComplex that Doja Cat was to feature not on the song's original version, but on a remix instead.[70] Because of an emergency vocal surgery that Doja Cat underwent, the remix's release did not happen. SZA reacted in disappointment, and she hoped that she can work with her again on other projects.[71]
On April 14, 2023, Doja Cat hinted at another collaboration with SZA on Instagram, tagging her on a post that read "9 pm." On Twitter, the two had a public, back-and-forth interaction. Doja Cat told SZA "sis... I did something bad", to which SZA responded "Jesus.. What is it."[72] A remix of "Kill Bill", featuring Doja Cat, was surprise-released at the indicated time,[73][74] with a rap verse that opens the song and continues the storyline of the original version.[75] An animated video accompanying the remix was posted toYouTube, showing apixelated Doja Cat as she uses aball and chain to fight enemies.[76]
"Kill Bill" saw massive commercial success, buoyed strongly by itsstreaming numbers.[30][77] According to theInternational Federation of the Phonographic Industry, it was the third best-selling single of 2023, earning 1.84 billion units based on streams anddigital sales,[78] and it wasSpotify's second most-streamed song of 2023.[79] It spent two weeks atop theBillboard Global 200 chart, which tracks songs' performance on streaming and download platforms,[80] and four weeks atop USStreaming Songs.[81] It was SZA's first song to top theBillboard Global 200, and it did so in early January 2023, bolstered by around 64million international streams.[82][83] The week prior, it debuted atop Streaming Songs with 36.9million US streams for the December 24, 2022, issue. It was her first number-one there and the first non-holiday song since 2018 to be the top entry on the chart for the week ofChristmas.[84]
With "Kill Bill" and "Nobody Gets Me", SZA acquired her sixth and seventh top 10 songs in the United States.[85] Meanwhile, in Canada, "Kill Bill" debuted at number 5 and later peaked at number 3.[86][87] SZA achieved her highest debut on the USBillboard Hot 100 when the song entered the chart as an album track in December 2022, at number three.[88] Once it wassent to radio, "Kill Bill" became SZA's first top 10 entry on theRadio Songs chart,[89] where it reached number two.[90] It was her third and fastest song to topRhythmic Airplay, the first radio chart "Kill Bill" topped,[91] and her first in a lead credit to topPop Airplay.[92]
The song spent 17 of its first 18 weeks on theBillboard Hot 100 in the top 10. Of those 18 weeks, 8 were spent at number two.[93] Three songs kept "Kill Bill" from the top spot: "Anti-Hero" (2022) byTaylor Swift,[94] "Flowers" (2023) byMiley Cyrus, and "Last Night" (2023) byMorgan Wallen.[26] After 8 weeks at number two, "Kill Bill" topped theBillboard Hot 100, becoming SZA's first number-one in the United States, boosted by the remix. It tied with three other songs for the second-most weeks at number two before reaching the top, behind "Bad Guy" (2019) byBillie Eilish (9 weeks).[90] On USHot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, "Kill Bill" was SZA's second number-one debut, after "I Hate U" in 2021,[95] and was at number one for 21 weeks. It broke the record for the longest time a song spent atop the chart, surpassingLil Nas X's "Old Town Road" (2019).[96] "Kill Bill" ended 2023 as the third best-performing song in the US,[97] and it has beencertified 8× platinum by theRecording Industry Association of America for selling 8,000,000 equivalent units.[98]
The song peaked within the top 5 of theMiddle East and North Africa (MENA) region, and it had more several top 5 peaks in the Asia-Pacific. "Kill Bill" spent multiple weeks at number one in New Zealand[99] and Singapore,[100][101] and it was the highest-charting international song in Malaysia for over a week.[102][103] It also went number one in Indonesia and the Philippines,[104] and it reached number 4 and number 3 in Vietnam and the MENA's regional chart, respectively.[105][106] "Kill Bill" was SZA's first chart-topping song in Australia,[107] where it was certified 7× platinum for selling over 490,000 equivalent units,[108] and was the country's third-biggest song of 2023.[109] It received a 6×platinum certification in New Zealand for selling over 180,000 units.[110]
On theUK Singles Chart, "Kill Bill" debuted within the top 15 in mid–December 2022.[111] It rose to the top 10, SZA's first solo song to do so, in early 2023, once Christmas songs had left the chart.[53][112] Peaking at number 3, "Kill Bill" tied "Kiss Me More" as her highest-charting song in the UK;[53][113] ended the year with over 100 million streams[114] and 1,069,727 total sales;[115] and was the country's seventh best-performing song.[116] Elsewhere in Europe, it reached the top 20 in Ireland, the Nordic countries, Lithuania, Portugal, Slovakia, Switzerland, Hungary, the Netherlands, Germany, and Austria and top forty in the Netherlands, France and Belgium.[note 3]
"Kill Bill" was highly lauded by music critics. Many of them called "Kill Bill" a highlight ofSOS,[note 4] and Sophie Williams ofNME attributed the choice to its vivid, detail-heavy storytelling.[119] Compliments toward the lyrics revolved around its cinematic narrative,[23][120][121] poetic quality, and raw honesty.[10][122] Some praised it for demonstrating SZA's lyrical versatility, capable of not only relishing in sadness but also expressing anger.[122][123] Meanwhile,Vulture's Zoe Guy,Pitchfork's Jill Mapes, andRolling Stone's Mankaprr Conteh lauded "Kill Bill" as an exemplar of how to blend pop-culture references with internal struggles and candid self-reflection to create a lyrically memorable song.[41][124][125] Other critics pointed towards the lyrics' melodrama and relatability despite the extreme violence,[3][122][126] andBillboard writers cited these qualities as the reason for the song's critical and commercial success: "people just love violence, and seem to have a weird fascination with 'crazy in love' relationship dynamics."[66]
Some critics praised "Kill Bill" for its novel approach to revenge songs,[122] such as Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen ofThe Sydney Morning Herald, who wrote that SZA provided a refreshing and "intoxicating" take to very common tropes associated with murder ballads.[38] Referencing the break-up songs that blocked the song from number one, "Flowers" and "Last Night", D'Souza argued that "Kill Bill" was a standout among its commercially successful contemporaries that, in his view, had more boilerplate and "easily digestible" lyrics about heartbreak. He continued that "SZA's success feels like a win for a kind of pop music that's in short supply right now."[26]
Music journalists commended the song for itscatchiness.[127][128][129] Lyndsey Havens forBillboard said that "Kill Bill" was good for singalongs,[97] and inThe Atlantic, Spencer Kornhaber wrote: "As if her evil genius was in doubt, [it] will have millions of people doing their holiday shopping with a serial-killer confession stuck in their head."[130] Other critics praised her vocals, writing that its softness elevated the song's vulnerability and intimacy,[17][42] and its production, with two describing its melody as smooth as water.[131][132]
The original version appeared in best-of-2023 song listicles published onUSA Today (unranked)[23] andPitchfork (6),[122] and it was placed at number one by Heran Mamo onBillboard's.[133] Year-end rankings that featured the remix included ones published byRolling Stone (16)[125] andBBC News (6).[134]
"Kill Bill" placed at number 267 at the February 2024 iteration ofRolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list, which wrote that it was "the epitome of what makes [SZA] one of this generation's greatest songwriters".[135]Billboard ranked the song as the 222nd best pop song of all time in October 2023,[136] as well as the 4th best breakup song of all time in February 2024.[137] On their 2023 listicle, the magazine wrote that "Kill Bill" marked SZA's "official crossover from subversive R&B tastemaker to bona fide pop star".[136] In a 2025 ranking of SZA's discography,The Guardian criticAlexis Petridis rated "Kill Bill" as her second-best song. He praised "how engagingly witty its fantasies of offing an ex [were]", also writing positively about the chorus's "pure pop sweetness".[138]
Vivica A. Fox, one of the starring actresses in theKill Bill films, makes a cameo in the music video.
SZA expressed her gratitude for fans' warm reception of "Kill Bill" by posting a 20-second teaser of themusic video to Twitter on December 29, 2022,[59][152] having alluded to its creation around a week prior during an interview withEntertainment Weekly.[153] The video was directed byChristian Breslauer and produced by Luga Podesta through his production company London Alley Entertainment.[154] It premiered on YouTube the same day as the song's release, briefly going private after its first 10 minutes of availability before being made public again.[155]
With the video, SZA aimed to create something more narrative-centric compared to her past music videos which, while containing a few story beats, did not have full, coherent plotlines. In Breslauer's words, she wanted "less performance and [more] acting"; the result was a shortaction film heavily inspired by theKill Bill duology.[154] The music video recreates several scenes and plot points from the films, with SZA appearing as a recreation of the Bride. She appears in a red and black jumpsuit similar to the Bride's yellow and black one, and she uses a katana as her fighting weapon.[59][156]Vivica A. Fox, the actress who starred inKill Bill as a Deadly Viper and the Bride's enemy Vernita Green, makes a cameo in the video.[157][158] Her scenes were the last ones filmed during production;[154] prior to Fox, the casting crew consideredUma Thurman, the actress for the Bride, for the cameo role.[159]
Pre-production began in the middle of December 2022, when Top Dawg approached London Alley to produce the video, andprincipal photography took place six days later. The scheduled period for filming was one day before the company's Christmas break, so all scenes had to be completed within 19 or 20 hours, in contrast to the usual two or three days allocated for similar music videos.[154] The video is a blend of visual techniques from several film genres.[160] For example, it contains ananime-style interlude that was added in post-production, and it incorporates manysplit-screen shots, a choice inspired by the cinematography of several 1970s films.[154] Regarding this, Breslauer said: "Tarantino is the ultimate chop and screw hybrid filmmaker in how he grabs from so many films and genres, so wanted to do a little of that here as well."[160]
SZA had prominent authority in the creative direction;[154] for example, she performed most of her stunts despite little time to choreograph, learning them in less than four hours.[160] She had been promoting specific tracks fromSOS by using the outros of her music videos to tease an upcoming song,[66][note 5] and she wanted to continue the trend with the "Kill Bill" video. Her choice for the outro song was the album track "Seek & Destroy". It contains the line "I had to do it to you", which she deemed fitting because when applied in the context of "Kill Bill", the lyrics captured SZA's celebration of revenge and the glory it brought her. For the video's outro, she asked someone with expertise inshibari to tie her upside down.[154]Due to the violence and gore scenes, several angles of the video were blurred and the clip was broadcast with a warning "-10" (forNot advised to kids under 10 years old) on a few music channels in France.
The opening scene, set to "Nobody Gets Me", contains the first out of manyKill Bill references, set in a trailer reminiscent of the one in which Budd, another of Thurman's sworn enemies, resided. During this, the boyfriend breaks up with SZA and leaves her in the trailer before he tells his gunmen, who act as the video's Deadly Vipers, to shoot her dead while she is inside.[155][163] She survives the assault and gets in a car driven by Fox's character, who takes her to a warehouse where she prepares to enact vengeance on the hitmen.[58][157] SZA dresses up in the jumpsuit, gets a katana which she uses to decapitate a dummy, and drives on a motorcycle to find her ex-boyfriend.[156][163]
SZA arrives at a location analogous to the films' House of Blue Leaves, a Japanese bar that served as the headquarters for O-Ren Ishii, a high-ranking assassin of the Deadly Vipers. In there, she confronts severalyakuza bodyguards who represent Ishii's Crazy 88, kill them one by one, and enter a room to face her ex-boyfriend.[164][155][165] The confrontation scene, the anime-style interlude, alludes to the animated sequence that introduced Ishii's backstory inVolume 1.[58][154] The video ends as SZA approaches the man, rips his heart out, and licks it, fulfilling her revenge. A naked and tied-up SZA, hung upside down from the warehouse ceiling, appears in the outro while a snippet of "Seek & Destroy" plays.[165][166]
SZA first performed "Kill Bill" live on theSOS Tour, during a concert inColumbus, Ohio. It took place at theSchottenstein Center on February 21, 2023.[167] A live performance at one of the New York City shows was released as part of a video series onApple TV+ covering the tour.[168] When the tour's concerts neared their end, she would change her outfit to wear red biker pants and a motor suit, similar to her look for the music video. Recreating the Crazy 88 sequence, SZA had a spiked ball and chain in one of her hands that she swung across the stage. Her prop was a callback to the fight scene inVolume 1 between Thurman and one of Ishii's fighters[169][170]—the fighter in question was Gogo Yubari, who armed herself with ameteor hammer, a weapon consisting of a chain and a weight attached to both ends.[171]
At the 2023iHeartRadio Jingle Ball, held in early December, SZA included "Kill Bill" as part of her headlining set. She, along with a group of backup dancers, brandished machetes on stage to complement the lyrics.[172] Before she performed the song at the66th Annual Grammy Awards in February 2024, the broadcast showed a woman in the audience who was standing on a table and swinging a sword. The woman joined SZA and other dancers with swords for the performance.[173][174] It centered around a fighting sequence, which featured one man whom SZA threw across the stage[175] and another man whom she pushed to the floor as red fabric fell towards her.[176] The song's performance during theGrand National Tour (2025) was accompanied by footage ofpraying mantises mating, which ends with the female killing the male and eating his head.[177]
^When "Kill Bill" broke her record for highest-charting song in the United States, she was furious that the song that achieved such success was not one that took much effort to make. She said inBillboard: "I knew it would be something that pissed me off. It's always a song that I don't give a fuck about that's just super easy, not the shit that I put so much heart and energy into."[29]
^It began with the inclusion of a snippet of "Good Days" (2020),SOS's lead single, at the end of the video for standalone single "Hit Different" (2020). "Shirt" (2022), the album's third single, was teased at the outro for the "Good Days" music video; the "Shirt" video itself features a teaser of the album track "Blind" (2022).[161][162]
^Mckinney, Jessica; Caraballo, Ecleen Luzmila; et al. (December 15, 2023)."The Best Albums of 2023".Complex.Archived from the original on January 1, 2024. RetrievedJanuary 2, 2024.
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