Drew Barrymore Shares Wholesome Throwback Photo with 'Kill Bill' Singer
- - Drew Barrymore Shares Wholesome Throwback Photo with 'Kill Bill' Singer
Liz LindainAugust 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Drew Barrymore has so much love for SZA.
The beloved Hollywood actress shared a throwback selfie to Instagram with R&B singer SZA on Thursday afternoon.
"Throwback to this 'pinch me' moment," Barrymore wrote as her caption. "I still can’t believe you wrote such a beautiful song and named it my name! I’m the luckiest girl in the world! You’re the greatest. @sza."
This was not the first time Barrymore had praised SZA and the song in public. Back in January 2017, when the song just came out, the 50 First Dates star posted a video of herself on Instagram watching SZA's performance.
The fourth track on SZA's debut album, Ctrl, is titled "Drew Barrymore" and is inspired to the beloved actress. Earlier this year, the 35-year-old singer went on Barrymore's daytime talk show, The Drew Barrymore Show, and she discussed the inspiration and meaning behind the 2017 song. Barrymore also made a brief cameo in the song's music video.
"It was inspired by you, it wasn't just titled after you," SZA admitted back in January. "The energy that you carry. Even my outfit is inspired by the way you've made me feel my entire life."
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SZA also told the 50-year-old actress how she wrote a letter to Barrymore but never sent it. "When you’re a younger black woman, there’s not a lot of examples all the time, and one of the few lovely white women that I looked up to so much on television was you because you were so yourself," SZA added, while tearing up. "You were quirky. Your smile wasn’t perfect. I have a slight speech impediment, and people laugh all the time."
Produced by The Antydote, Carter Lang & Macie Stewart, "Drew Barrymore" portrays a sad and unsure version of SZA, specifically in a relationship that felt so unbalanced. In a performance for VEVO Halloween in 2017, SZA admitted before singing the song that she wrote it about the time she went to a party for a boy, but the boy completely ditched her because he brought another girl.
Currently, SZA is on the Grand National Tour with rapper and fellow collaborator Kendrick Lamar, and they finished the European leg on August 9 in Stockholm, Sweden. Though they are currently on break, the tour will pick up again on September 23 in Mexico City. The "Snooze" singer also announced just last week that she is the new artistic director for Vans.
Meanwhile, Barrymore is still the host of her daytime talk show, The Drew Barrymore, which airs on CBS on weekdays.
Related: Drew Barrymore Reminisces on Sweet Interview with Adam Sandler
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