2017Released
4:32

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SZA plays the role of a time sharing lover on this THANKGOD4CODY produced slow-burner: Tuesday and Wednesday, Thursday and Friday I just keep him satisfied through the weekend You're like 9 to 5, I'm the weekend Speaking to Vulture about the track, SZA said: "Time-sharing a man is real AF. If we're all being honest there's very few men that are just dating one woman. I think, low-key, the internet makes it so difficult [to be in relationships] because we're taking in so much information. There's always new, new, new, more, more, more. Having one person seems like a restriction, like a limitation. Everyone's used to being overstimulated. I feel like men kind of do this thing where they don't wanna tell anyone about [who they're with], because they don't want to lose the opportunity to potentially call you if they needed to. Not saying that they would, but they need the option. So in this song, I'm opting in. Like, I know you have a bunch of girls, probably. Maybe you're not being honest with me - I just know that you have mad girls - and I still don't care, because I didn't want to be your girlfriend anyway! I'm not internalizing the way that you're acting as a disrespect towards me, it doesn't make me any less because you're not my boyfriend. And like, you're not her boyfriend, and you're not her boyfriend. You're just out here wildin'."

Some fans interpreted the song's lyrics to be about dating a taken man on the weekend and allowing his girlfriend to have him for the remaining days. However SZA tweeted they are actually about three girls sharing the same guy : "My man is MY man Is YOUR man heard thts HER man too : thts 3 women ..Not two. all getting played. one opted out." SZA added that she's "singing from every perspective."

Memphis producer ThankGod4Cody's instrumentation was made with SZA in mind, He told Genius. "I was trying to make her like, just give her this alley-oop in the form of a beat, And she caught that s--t, and did a slick windmill on it."

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of The Weekend.
G♯Key
MinorMode
3/4Time Signature
73BPM

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Released By

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Top Dawg Entertainment/RCA Records
(P) 2017 Top Dawg Entertainment, under exclusive license to RCA Records

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