Lizzo and SZA are a musical dream staff on the newly launched remix of “Particular” from Lizzo’s 2022 album of the identical identify. The pair first teased the remix on social media final evening with a graphic exhibiting off their Grammy Award wins — Lizzo’s being the newest, along with her scoring a File of the 12 months trophy for “About Rattling Time” this previous Sunday.
“Wakened this morning to any person judging me/No shock they judging me, don’t know who I’m ‘posed to be/I’m simply appearing up, I’m pressed as fuck and by no means saying sorry/Discovered it ultimately, I can solely do it for me,” SZA sings on the brand new opening verse. “You name delicate and I name it superpower/You identical to empathy ’trigger you suppose it offers you energy/All I do know is just God can decide me/I don’t cover my coronary heart, I put on it on me.”
The brand new verse seems to be a callback to how Lizzo was feeling final yr. “After “Rumors,” I acquired a whole lot of backlash,’” Lizzo advised Apple Music in regards to the tune when it got here out. “I feel it was as a result of folks hadn’t heard from me since Cuz I Love You, and this was their alternative to assault me as a result of I used to be seen, you already know? However I flip my ache into music. I flip my ache into revenue. I make it work for me. So I went into the studio to put in writing a tune for myself that might remind me how particular I’m.”
Again in 2021, a fan tweeted Lizzo saying: “You need a SZA characteristic so unhealthy.” SZA stepped in to make clear: “She has about 5 already lol.” A couple of yr later, in November 2022, the singer made an look throughout Lizzo’s tour cease in California to carry out “Particular.”
“Nobody such as you on this earth and I’m so honored to name you my good friend and SISTER love you increasingly more every day,” SZA wrote to Lizzo on Twitter after the efficiency. “We don’t deserve u.”
Lizzo penned SZA’s TIME 100 essay final yr, recalling their first encounter at a present in Minneapolis. On the time, they took a selfie collectively within the rest room, one which Lizzo nonetheless sends her from time to time as a reminder of how a lot they’ve grown as pals within the years since.
“The authenticity in her craft—the best way she’s capable of inform her story and the best way she makes use of melody—is extraordinary,” Lizzo wrote. “Nobody can replicate that. When she’s onstage, she’s timeless. She’s somebody who’s the true deal, and I feel that she’s nicely on her strategy to being considered one of many best songwriters and singers of all time. All she wants is that pen and that voice and her story, and he or she’s going to be with us for a very long time.”