SZA has spoken about her experiences of being bullied as a teen and the way it contributed to her future success.
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The artist opened up about feeling misunderstood and experiencing completely different types of bullying throughout her teenage years in a brand new interview with Individuals.
“I used to be bullied as a result of I wasn’t quiet and I used to be awkward on the similar time,” she stated. “I wasn’t this tiny unhappy sufferer, however I used to be extra so attacked simply because it was giving ‘what’s unsuitable with you?’ vitality.
“I all the time thought, ‘Oh my God.’ I’ll by no means have the approval of anybody in life, this have to be my defining issue, this have to be the underside line.”
She added that she doesn’t remorse that chapter in her life and as an alternative, believes that it has made her who she is in the present day.
“I spotted that each one the issues that made me really feel so lame have been truly what made me into who I’m,” she defined. “It’s like, I didn’t go to promenade as a result of I didn’t have any mates and I had nobody to go to promenade with…[and now] it’s so bizarre that my life became [having] a bodyguard whereas touring to events.”
She continued: “All this stuff, if I had such a satisfying existence and expertise in highschool, I’d’ve felt validated to the purpose the place I didn’t have to do anymore. [So] I simply needed to do extra, I needed to be extra as a result of I used to be like, ‘This shitty expertise can’t be the tip of it as a result of whether it is, I’m cooked.’”
Later in the identical interview, she supplied some phrases of encouragement to anybody being bullied. “Everybody who experiences bullying, that simply sucks, but it surely’s going to steer you to one thing, it has to,” she stated.
“When you may maintain on and simply wait till highschool is over as a result of 10 years from now, I promise you, none of these folks will matter.”
SZA launched her lengthy awaited second album ‘SOS’ final month and it topped the Billboard 200, reached Quantity Two within the UK Album Charts and noticed SZA grow to be probably the most listened to artist on Spotify. Her 17-date North American area tour offered out in seconds.
Reviewing the album, NME awarded ‘SOS’ 5 stars and stated it was “a comeback album properly well worth the wait”.
It added: “The US star’s first album in 5 years – and her final ever, she says – is sprawling, excellent and infrequently places a foot unsuitable.”
Final week, SZA teased a brand new video for ‘SOS’ observe ‘Kill Invoice’. The 20 second clip is filmed very very like the Quentin Tarantino movie of the identical identify, with the R&B star getting dressed for revenge and driving off into the evening on her motorbike very like Uma Thurman’s lead character within the film.
