SZA is giving props to Tate McRae after she covered “F2F” from SZA’s SOS album.
On her Instagram Story Tuesday (May 27), the “Kill Bill” musician reposted a video of the Canadian pop star singing the track during a pre-show soundcheck in Paris. Though the original song finds SZA belting angsty lyrics over head-banging electric guitar, McRae stripped the song back, delivering soft vocals over delicate acoustic strings. In the clip, she looks casual in a pair of jeans and a baseball hat, sitting on her stage floor as she reads the lyrics from her phone.
“Get a rise out of watchin’ you fall/ Get a kick out of missin’ your call,” McRae sings in the video, adding her own runs to the R&B star’s original melody. “I hate me enough for the two of us/ Hate that I can’t let go of you enough/ I f–k him ’cause I miss you.”
“This hard tho,” SZA praised the “Sports Car” artist.
“F2F” came out in December 2022 and quickly became a fan-favorite track on SOS. The song reached No. 55 on the Billboard Hot 100, while the album has spent a collective 13 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
McRae’s cover comes as she’s touring in support of March album So Close to What, which became her first No. 1 LP on the Billboard 200 upon its release. She also just scored her very first No. 1 on the Hot 100 thanks to her new Morgan Wallen collaboration “What I Want” debuting in the top spot this week.
The “Exes” artist has long been performing covers of songs during her soundchecks. Earlier in May, she sang Taylor Swift’s “The 1” before a set in Germany, and she’s previously put her own live spins on Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather” and Olivia Rodrigo’s “Pretty Isn’t Pretty” on her 2024 Think Later trek.
