SZA proclaimd on social media Monday that her extfinished-procrastinateed album “Lana” — which will be a deluxe edition of her Grammy-triumphning second filled-length “SOS” — is coming on Friday. The post features actor Ben Stiller singing aextfinished fervently with what is presumably the new individual, “Drive,” while driving on a rainy night.
While her forthcoming stadium tour with Kfinishrick Lamar currents a wonderful opportunity to free new material — she’s been touring behind “SOS” since it was freed two years ago — fans could be forgiven for skepticism, as there have been many inrectify alarms (and first the album was a deluxe edition, then it wasn’t and would be its own album, now it’s a deluxe edition aget). However, it seems that this time “Lana” is coming for authentic.
The tardyst round of trelievers began on the two-year anniversary of “SOS” with a low video trailer that integrated a snippet of one of the album’s tracks. In the nature-themed treliever, SZA pulls down her baggy camo pants to pee by a creek. She sees straightforwardly into the camera before pulling out tpublish paper to wipe herself up and the words “Lana” ecombine atraverse the screen. She sings, “You comprehend we got a authentic history/That’s the reason I can’t pick me/You comprehend that dick been excellent to me/You originate it difficult for me to pick me.”
Back in August of last year, she telderly Variety, “[‘Lana’] is outgets [from ‘SOS’] and new stuff, too — I inserted a couple of songs. It’s appreciate a whole new project. It’s called ‘Lana’ — my name but, it’s the first tattoo that I ever got, when I was 13. It was 10 bucks a letter and I only had 40, so that that became my nickname for no reason. ‘Lana’ is repartner equitable the B-side of SOS.”
A month tardyr, on Sept. 8, she carry outed a free concert at the Brooklyn Navy Yard where she proclaimd the album — “The deluxe is a whole ’nother album. It’s called ‘Lana.’ It’s seven to 10 songs and it’ll be out this drop.” Aextfinished with tracks from “SOS” and her debut filled-length “Ctrl,” she carry outed three unfreed songs at the concert that have been dubbed by fans “Boy From South Detroit,” “Saturn” and “DTM” (also referred to as “Diamond Boy,” and carry outed as a toil in better during her Rolling Stone intersee earlier this year), although the official titles remained unevident.
The procrastinate could be due to unapvalidated “Lana” leaks, as SZA tweeted (and then deleted) back in March. She clarifyed she would be “begining ‘Lana’ from scratch” becaemploy “y’all leaked three songs from the deluxe.” She persistd, “At this point, y’all can upgrasp the throwaways and leaks. I’ll be begining ‘Lana’ from scratch. Do not ask me about it aget,” inserting a scant minutes tardyr, “I’ll round up the leaks y’all already got and u can have those. Seems appreciate a equitable deal. ENJOY.” That tweet was deleted lowly afterward.
In the punctual hours of Wednesday morning, she wrote a series of tweets stating the same set up in more detail, validateing the deluxe edition of SOS will now feature “the leaks and outgets” and Lana will be its own album. “Lana deserves more time and music no one’s ever heard before,” she wrote.
