SZA Talks Ex-Fiances and Breakups on 'Hot Ones' in Bug Makeup: Watch

From breakups to spicy wings, SZA doesn't let anything bother her – for the most part.

In the latest episode of First We Feast Hot Posted on Thursday (September 26), the Grammy winner opened up about her music, career and relationships between sharp wing bites while wearing alien prosthetics and a pair of antennae. “I'm just tired of not being a bug,” she explained of her costume choice.

While speaking to host Sean Evans about which songs make her the most emotional, SZA replied, “'Nobody Gets Me' because my ex-fiancé hates me so much and that's so unfortunate.”

“Every time I sing it I'm like, 'Damn, what the fuck?'” she continued, adding that she also develops her emotions while singing Ctrl Tracks like “Normal Girl,” “20 Something” and “Drew Barrymore,” which she says remind her of seeing “the boy you like… fucking another girl” at a house party.

SZA has spoken openly in the past about how her relationship with her ex inspired her music, particularly “Nobody Gets Me.” “This particular song, in its entirety, is a story about my ex-fiancé and how we went through all these arguments and then broke up,” she told Hot 97 in December 2022. “I just felt like I was doomed to do this .” Hell for the rest of my life, because no one understood me like he did and no one motivated me like he did.”

Speaking to Evans, who came up when SZA was telling it billboard In 2023, when the success of her hit “Kill Bill” made her “pissed off” because it was “super easy” to write, the R&B star spoke about how confusing she finds the music industry because it can be so unpredictable. “I never know what will happen,” she continued Hot. “I say, 'I thought you'd like this.' Then they say, 'No, stupid, we hate this.'”

“It’s insulting but also very fulfilling and validating,” she added. “The toxic (relationships) are the most fun.”

The interview comes ahead of SZA's highly anticipated third album Lanawhich will follow her critically acclaimed second album SOS. The 2022 LP spent ten weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, marking her first album to top the chart.

After sweating through increasingly acrimonious wings that had her questioning Evans' “sinister and insidious” intentions for the show, the “Snooze” singer gave a candid answer when asked at the end of the episode , to give fans a life update. “I'm going through a breakup right now, it's fucking hot,” she said.

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