Song · SZA
“Shirt” by SZA
From the album SOS (2022)
“Shirt” by SZA appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2022. It was first released in 2022 on the album SOS. Its best result is #20 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2022. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #166 alternative song of 2022.
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SZA had been teasing "Shirt" online for two years before it finally arrived in October 2022 as the third single from her second album, SOS, and by then a preview snippet had already set off a TikTok dance craze with more than a million videos behind it. Darkchild and Freaky Rob built the track on synthesizers and 808s, an R&B slow burn shot through with trap, and SZA uses it to pick at a relationship she knows is poison and keeps crawling back to anyway, even as it leaves her drained and adrift.
It's the album's big themes in miniature: hard self-scrutiny, the chase for perfection, love curdling into loathing. Critics singled out the writing, and plenty put it on their year-end lists. Dave Meyers directed the video, a Tarantino-style crime spree in which SZA and LaKeith Stanfield leave bodies across town before turning on each other.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 20 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2022 | 100 |
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