SZA’s ‘Scorsese Baby Daddy’ Lyrics Meaning Off ‘Lana’

Artist and muse.
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On LanaSZA is back in her longing back. Specifically, on the buzzy title “Scorsese Baby Daddy,” she’s expecting … well, a Scorsese baby daddy. “I could have called my mom / I’d rather fuck it,” SZA says. “Depending on the drama / Scorsese’s baby daddy.” Excuse us? In the next verse, SZA explains that she’s looking for the kind of fleeting relationships that Martin Scorsese’s gangsters, criminals and rich guys often have. “I’d pretend to make my favorite man, he’d call me tasty,” she sings. “Raising lady, then I wonder if I could do it, baby / Someday I’ll understand all it takes to be a lady.”

Okay, but what some sort of Scorsese baby daddy are we talking? (And before you call her a fake fan, she has met the guy.) Is SZA looking for a bad-boy gangster who Goodfellasis Jimmy Conway or Gangs in New Yorkis Amsterdam Walloon? Or a debauched criminal millionaire who The Wolf of Wall StreetIs Jordan Belfort? Or perhaps even a devout Jesuit priest like Sebastião or Francisco i Silence? (Hey, if he looks like Andrew Garfield or Adam Driver!) She certainly doesn’t mean Scorsese himself, who has been married to his wife, Helen, since 1999. But whatever Scorsese baby daddy she finds might want to listen to her Tarantino-inspired hit” Kill Bill” first.