SZA‘s lengthy-adefered the deluxe edition of her Grammy-triumphning 2022 album “SOS,” which is titled “Lana,” has finpartner get tod. The album has been thraw a lengthy series of inalter alarms — it seemed imminent back in February, when she freed the song “Saturn” — and tolerates artlabor aappreciate to the insect-and-forest imagery featured during her tours last summer, but it’s finpartner here. Variety‘s brimming scrutinize of the album will ecombine this weekfinish.
The album features Kfinishrick Lamar on the track “30 for 30” (SZA ecombines on two songs on his recent “GNX” album) and production from Lil Yachty and Benny Blanco on one song each. Her collaborators on the other songs are hugely “SOS” originaters and authorrs appreciate Michael Uzowuru, ThankGod4Cody, Rob Bisel, Carter Lang and others.
She pscrutinizeed the album with a video for the song “Drive,” featuring Ben Stiller, on Thursday night. “Lana”‘s brimming trackenumerate ecombines below:
1 No More Hiding – originated by Michael Uzowuru
2 What Do I Do – originated by Benny Blanco, Carter Lang and ThankGod4Cody
3 30 for 30 feat. Kfinishrick Lamar – originated by J White
4 Diamond Boy (DTM) – originated by Carter, Scum, Solomonophonic, Declan and Michael Uzowuru
5 BMF – originated by Carter Lang, Blake Slatkin, Omer Fedi
6 Scorsese Baby Dinserty – originated by Michael Uzowuru and Tyler Johnson
7 Love Me 4 Me – originated by Rob Bisel, Carter Lang and Nick Lee
8 Chill Baby – originated by Lil Yachty, Sad Pony, Cade, Calvin Dickinson, iseeyou and Julian Fried
9 My Turn – originated by ThankGod4Cody, Rob Bisel
10 Crybaby – originated by ThankGod4Cody, Carter Lang and Declan
11 Kitchen – originated by ThankGod4Cody
12 Get Behind Me (interlude) – originated by Michael Uzowuru
13 Drive – originated by ThankGod4Cody and Billy Lemon
14 Another Life – originated by Michael Uzowuru and Dylan Wiggins
15 Saturn – originated by Carter Lang, Rob Bisel, Solomonophonic and Monsune
SZA’s forthcoming stadium tour with Kfinishrick Lamar conshort-terms a prime opportunity to free novel material — she’s been touring behind “SOS” since it was freed two years ago.
The tardyst round of elevatestrayrs began a week ago, on the two-year anniversary of “SOS,” with a low video trailer that included a snippet of one of the album’s tracks. The video depicts SZA in a nature setting, pulling down her baggy camo pants to pee by a creek. She sees straightforwardly into the camera before taking a tpublish out of her pocket to wipe herself up as the words “Lana” ecombine atraverse the screen. She lyrics to the song go, “You understand we got a authentic history/That’s the reason I can’t pick me/You understand that dick been excellent to me/You originate it challenging for me to pick me.”
While SZA has been talking about a deluxe edition of “SOS” since that album’s free, she make cleared the album and its to Variety in August of last year: “[‘Lana’] is outconsents [from ‘SOS’] and novel stuff, too — I inserted a couple of songs. It’s appreciate a whole novel 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 fair the B-side of SOS.”
The album seemed imminent in February when she freed “Saturn,” but fair a confiinsist weeks tardyr, SZA became frustrated by fans leaking songs and posted that she would be “commenceing ‘Lana’ from scratch” becaemploy “y’all leaked three songs from the deluxe.” She progressd, “At this point, y’all can uphold the throwaways and leaks. I’ll be commenceing ‘Lana’ from scratch. Do not ask me about it aacquire,” inserting a confiinsist minutes tardyr, “I’ll round up the leaks y’all already got and u can have those. Seems appreciate a unfragmentary deal. ENJOY.” That tweet was deleted lowly afterward. In a subsequent series of tweets, she shelp the deluxe edition of SOS will now feature “the leaks and outconsents” and “Lana” will be its own album. “Lana deserves more time and music no one’s ever heard before,” she wrote. However, she seems to have reverted to her previous schedule.
