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Where Ctrl reflected SZA’s journey towards finding self-love and acceptance, her long-awaited sophomore LP SOS finds the St. SZA has confirmed that the cover art for her new album, ‘SOS’, was inspired by a photo of Princess Diana. To be fair, the mix of cosmic folk, personal reflection, rap cadences, and vocal manipulation powering a song like “Blind” is a combo Frank Ocean showcased in Blonde highlights like “Solo,” though he would never touch alt-rock weepers like “Nobody Gets Me” and “F2F” or make a point to claim that stuff the way SZA does. Low” plays around in the deep end of SZA’s register while she applies herself to the same kind of brisk, moody trap tune Travis Scott prefers; the actual Travis spot on “Open Arms” plops the rager into the middle of a quiet acoustic jam.

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. The track is not only progressive in its use of strings and acoustic guitars but haunting in its vocal performance. 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. Snooze" was sent to urban and rhythmic contemporary radio in the United States on April 25, 2023, as the sixth single from SOS.

On the Phoebe Bridgers collaboration “Ghost in the Machine”, the duo take a deeper look at the realities of stardom, looking for a bit of humanity within their day-to-day interactions. In October, she said that she had written around 100 songs for the album and added that the album could be released "any day now". Love Language" contains an interpolation of " I Don't Wanna", and performed by Aaliyah, and written by Johntá Austin, Jazze Pha, Donnie Scantz and Kevin Hicks; and a sample of " Hit Different", performed by SZA featuring Ty Dolla Sign, and written by Solána Rowe, Tyrone Griffin, Jr. Sofia Coppola’s film, based on Priscilla Presley’s memoir, is a wish-fulfillment dream that loses momentum when its subject wakes up. That said, the breezy cut is mainly about keeping things clandestine; its chorus (which wonders whether you can “keep it like nobody knows shit”) all but issues a Non-Disclosure Agreement.

Locating a middle ground between assuredness and fragility, a sweet spot of purified authenticity, is a line SZA regularly straddles on her sophomore effort, SOS, an unwieldy, unruly, and, at times, deeply beautiful album. a b Thompson, Stephen; Harris, Aisha; Madden, Sidney; Katzif, Mike; Wood, Rommel; Reedy, Jessica (December 15, 2022).SOS is a maelstrom tamed by its singer’s steadiness, a series of death-defying maneuvers only she would try. And the worthy themes—retribution, nostalgia, ego—amount to the most intimate and juicy self-revelations since the Real World confessional booth. SZA approached him out of her admiration for his decades-long history of production work, which included songs with Brandy and Amerie. We’re spread thin, more connected, and therefore more in tune with more pain and subject to more judgment.