Nobody Gets Me

Album

SOS

Label

Top Dawg Entertainment

Genre

Alternative rock

Duration

0:00

Composer(s)

Solána Rowe;Rob Bisel;Carter Lang;Robin Weisse;Benjamin Levin

Entered Chart

Dec 24, 2022

Peak Date

Dec 24, 2022

Released

January 10, 2023

Recorded

Unknown

B-Side

N/A

"Nobody Gets Me" is an emotionally charged ballad where SZA encapsulates her feelings about her former fiancée. Her fiancée was the only man who fully understood her, and the R&B star hasn't got over the breakup. She's still hung up on seeing him with another girl, and when she's with another man SZA indulges in make believe. She pretends her new lover is her ex. During the first verse, SZA recounts some fights and challenges in their relationship, including beefing during a vacation and a falling out while staying at the MGM in Las Vegas. Speaking in a December 7, 2022, interview with Hot 97, she said: "The stories that I tell in that song about our arguments, our specific arguments... that's the theme on that. I feel like a lot of people don't understand me but it's OK." Took me out to the ballet You proposed, I went on the road You was feelin' empty so you left me During the second verse, SZA reveals they got engaged, but their relationship didn't survive her heavy touring schedule. "When we first broke up it was like terrible, and I just felt like I was gonna be doomed to be in hell for the rest of my life because nobody understood me the way he did, and like nobody motivated me the way he did," SZA recalled to Hot 97. "And he was just, you know, this rock in my life that just no longer exists. And it's just, like, it was insane." So, who is this love of SZA's life that she struggled to let go? The singer has had only two known boyfriends and neither seems to fit the bill. Drake rapped about dating the then-teenage SZA back in 2008 on "Mr. Right Now." They only went out for a short time and never got engaged. According to several sites, including Who's Dated Who, SZA had a relationship with Scott Sasso, the founder of the fashion brand 10.Deep. Again, there's no conclusive evidence they ever got engaged. SZA co-wrote "Nobody Gets Me" with her go-to collaborators Rob Bisel, Carter Lang, and Benny Blanco (Justin Bieber's "Love Yourself," Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello's "Señorita"), along with songwriter Robin Weisse (Kid Ink's "Promise," Pitbull's "Time Of Our Lives"). Lang and Blanco produced the track. Bradley J. Calder directed the moody black-and-white video. Filmed in New York, it sees SZA remembering a past romance as she walks the city's streets. Calder also shot Tinashe's "Save Room For Us" and "Stormy Weather" visuals.

Took a long vacation, no makeup, just Jay-Z
You were balls deep, now we beefing
Had me butt-naked at the MGM
So wasted, screaming, "Fuck that"
Blurry now, but I meant it then
Hurry now, baby, stick it in
'Fore the memories get to kicking in
It's too late, I don't wanna lose

What's left of you
How am I supposed to tell you
I don't wanna see you with anyone but me?
Nobody gets me like you
How am I supposed to let you go?
Only like myself when I'm with you
Nobody gets me, you do (do)
You do
Nobody gets me, you do (do)
You do
Nobody gets me, you do
You do
Nobody gets me, you do

Took me out to the ballet
You proposed, I went on the road
You was feeling empty, so you left me
Now I'm stuck dealing with a deadbeat
If I'm real, I deserve less
If I was you, I wouldn't take me back
I pretend when I'm with a man it's you
And I know that it's too late, I don't wanna lose

What's left of you
How am I supposed to tell you
I don't wanna see you with anyone but me?
Nobody gets me like you
How am I supposed to let you go?
Only like myself when I'm with you
Nobody gets me, you do (do)
You do
Nobody gets me, you do (do)
You do
Nobody gets me, you do (do)
You do
Nobody gets me, you do (do)
Nobody gets me, you do