SOS is a maelstrom tamed by its singer’s steadiness, a series of death-defying maneuvers only she would try. The journalist emphasized that in Ctrl there is no predefined musical genre, because "the theme lies in her vocal prowess, the daringness of her vision, and her lyrical frankness". Pre-sales were on April 13 at 10 am local time, and tickets went on sale on April 14 at 12 pm local time. From ” SZA – SOS Album” the compendium of the African drums and the percussion laced with quite accomplishing Strings and chords to the amazing laying of vocals and interesting lyrics coupled with the standard mixing and mastering.

This reality is how SZA can alternate between songs in which she flaunts her wealth and inaccessibility and songs that count the friends she has lost as she yearns for new and lasting bonds. The jarring shifts in mood are true-blue maturing-millennial thoughts, a testament to a world where nobody gets a storybook ending. It’s never their story; the singer parades these characters in front of us as if to say, “Look what I have to put up with to find peace.But she makes it sound like a flex over humid gospel wails invoking a salon full of mirthful women fanning themselves (from the hair dryers or some scandalous anecdote). However, not every song on the project is about moving on and leaving her past relationships behind her; SZA still has a penchant for making wrong decisions that may not end well for her (“Too Late”, “F2F”) and questions her worth in some instances (“Special”). SZA promoted the album on the December 3, 2022, episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live as a musical guest. Vulture and Variety noted that Ctrl also suffered a similar problem with its release date; SZA quarrelled with Top Dawg executives over its two-year delay and threatened to quit music because of it. Where Ctrl reflected SZA’s journey towards finding self-love and acceptance, her long-awaited sophomore LP SOS finds the St.

After going live on StationHead on December 14, 2022, on the streaming party of the new album she confirmed a few songs that will have an appearance on the extended edition of the artist’s sophomore record — apart from other information related to the music videos and the project itself —; those being: “ Guard Down”, “ PSA”, “ Boy From South Detroit” featuring American singer Lizzo, “ Brace Yourself”, “ Asparagus”, “ Nightbird”, “ Joni” and “ My Ex/It’s Ok”. However, she later retracted her claims by deleting the posts and said "don't nobody need to free me. About the wide range of genres incorporated into the album, SZA said she did not care if her production choices made the album sound incohesive, because to her, "if you sound like you, your shit's going to be cohesive.

At the end of a teaser video titled " PSA" released on her 33rd birthday, a message written in Morse code can be seen, which after being translated spells out "S. SZA – SOS Album” This latest hard project is bound to go to the top of the charts as we can see that the team behind it did their best to the execution of the work. As soon as the cover art was released, many fans speculated if it was a tribute to Princess Diana’s photograph taken one week before her passing. Five years after the slow-burn success of her breakthrough debut, Ctrl, the TDE superstar has turned in a follow-up that matches its predecessor’s rawness while speaking to multiplying difficulties in romance and in the public eye, where praise for her art meets gossip about her body — and body count. During the Met Gala and an interview with Complex, SZA claimed that the album was ready for release during summertime in the United States ("this summer, it will be a SZA summer"), but there was no urgent deadline for the release.

But I don’t know if chasing after superstardom or whatever I’m supposed to be doing right now is sustainable for me. This isn’t the only song that shows her weariness towards relationships that no longer serve her; see also “Smoking on My Ex Pack” and “Far.In the video for “Shirt,” the third single off her stellar new album, SZA casually murders people at a diner while crooning, “Feel the taste of resentment/Simmer on my skin. However, not every song on the project is about moving on and leaving her past relationships behind her; SZA still has a penchant for making wrong decisions that may not end well for her (“Too Late,” “F2F”) and questions her worth in some instances (“Special”). Petridis found that the songs "shine harder individually than taken in toto, where the sheer profusion causes them to merge into one, blended by a mood of stoned melancholy", with a final product of a "unwieldy" album, where SZA sounds as "a fabulous vocalist, powerful but unshowy, capable of shifting seamlessly into melodic rap". Maybe the length is a cynical concession to the era of the padded track list, and maybe it’s a dramatization of a year that felt like a horror movie, when a sense of security often felt fleeting or illusory and the fever dreams you dreaded the most often came true. Blind,” with its acoustic guitar and rich orchestration, finds her claiming that “my past can’t escape me.

She embraces this new level of confidence in her life, where she isn’t looking for anyone to save her from the depth of her emotions but instead is at peace with where she’s at in life. Every single from SOS, bar "Shirt", reached the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100—"Good Days", "I Hate U", "Nobody Gets Me", the chart-topping "Kill Bill", and "Snooze". It would have seven to ten songs, four of which she performed at the event: "Saturn", " PSA", "DTM", and "Boy from South Detroit". And when she compares herself to Della Reese while solidifying her steeliness, it’s clear she’s cementing her status—“in case all you hoes forgot.But in the references that I pulled for that, I pulled the Diana reference because I just loved how isolated she felt and that was what I wanted to convey the most.