SZA’s new album SOS is lastly right here — test it out beneath.
Released on Friday (December 9), the eagerly anticipated venture clocks in at a sprawling 23 tracks and boasts visitor appearances from Travis Scott, Don Toliver, the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard and Phoebe Bridgers, in addition to uncredited vocals from Lizzo.
Behind the boards, manufacturing comes from Babyface, Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins, DJ Dahi, Jay Versace, Emile Haynie, Jeff Bhasker, Michael Uzowuru, ThankGod4Cody, Benny Blanco and extra, with the sound starting from sultry R&B and increase bap Hip Hop to pop-punk.
The album contains the beforehand launched singles “Good Days,” “I Hate U” and “Shirt,” in addition to “Blind,” which SZA debuted throughout her efficiency on Saturday Night Live earlier this month.
The cowl artwork depicts the Top Dawg Entertainment songbird perched on the sting of a white diving board in a customized ice hockey jersey surrounded by the deep blue ocean. The art work was impressed by a photograph of Princess Diana that was taken previous to her loss of life in 1997.
“Originally I was supposed to be on top of a shipping barge, but in the references that I pulled for that, I pulled the Diana reference,” SZA defined in a latest interview with Hot 97’s Nessa. “Because I just loved how she isolated she felt, and that was what I wanted to convey the most.”
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As for the album title, she mentioned throughout the identical interview: “Of course, it’s like Save Our Souls and then Save Our Ship. But it’s also, you know, SZA stans in supreme alphabet, the S is Self-Savior. And my friends call me Sos for short, because Solana but shorter and cuter, I guess.”
It hasn’t been a clean journey to SOS‘s launch. The album has been stricken by quite a few delays and bickering between SZA and her labels lately. In July, the 33-year-old blamed her supervisor, TDE president Terrence “Punch” Henderson, and RCA Records for the hold-up.
“it’s 100% punch and rca on this one,” she wrote in a since-deleted tweet. “I wanted the summer. They wanted more time. Atp I’m just tryna have a good time stress free lol.”
Punch, nonetheless, claimed it was a easy case of miscommunication that was blown out of proportion.
“I remember one of the main things that kicked this off,” he mentioned on Math Hoffa’s My Expert Opinion in September. “I used to be dropping the ‘Hit Different’ file and Ty Dolla $ign was on the hook, however Ty had simply dropped his single. So they known as and requested may we look forward to every week simply to provide him some run on what he was doing earlier than we put ours out.
“So I’m like, ‘Yeah we can do that,’ and I held the song back for a week and it was taken as I’m holding the album back. So we go from there and it snowballs to where the fans see it and they only see the small print.”
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SOS serves because the long-awaited follow-up to SZA’s debut album Ctrl, which arrived in June 2017. The venture featured appearances from Kendrick Lamar, Travis Scott, Isaiah Rashad and extra, and spawned a string of hit singles together with “Love Galore,” “The Weekend” and “Broken Clocks.”
Ctrl was a industrial and significant success, debuting at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 whereas yielding a number of nominations on the 2018 Grammy Awards. It has since been licensed triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Earlier this 12 months, SZA launched a deluxe version of Ctrl that includes seven bonus songs, together with a collaboration with Tyler, The Creator, a canopy of PARTYNEXTDOOR and Drake’s “Come and See Me” and a solo model of “Love Galore” containing a beforehand unheard verse.
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