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SZA’s extremely anticipated third studio album, LANA, is on the way in which. Although she hasn’t shared a lot since confirming its launch again in September, the High Dawg Leisure signee opened up a bit about her songwriting course of throughout a Monday (Oct. 21) chat with Kendrick Lamar for Harper’s Bazaar.
Whereas many of the speak was targeted on the Compton rapper’s banner yr, “Not Like Us” and revisiting his childhood, he circled again to SZA towards the tip of their dialog. There, the “Love Galore” artist mirrored on writing a track in the summertime of 2023 that she simply couldn’t put out as a result of it was “too sincere.”
“Once I’m within the studio, it hurts an excessive amount of typically. Perhaps that’s why I faucet in and faux to be different folks,” she shared. “That’s why I’m pretending to be you or pretending to be Frank [Ocean] or pretending to be Future as a result of it’s straightforward. It’s simpler to be me via their eyes than it’s to take a seat with a few of the actually harsh issues that I say about myself to myself.”
“I suppose I need to say nicer issues about myself. So, I’m like, I suppose I shouldn’t look via my eyes. I ought to look via someone else’s,” SZA added. The singer-songwriter later mirrored on listening to 2022’s Mr. Morale & The Huge Steppers and the way it inspired her to “strip the ego from the underside.”
Sadly, SZA and Ocean have but to formally collaborate. Nonetheless, the Blonde artist beforehand coated her smash hit “The Weekend.” Future, alternatively, has labored with the St. Louis native on tracks like DJ Khaled’s “BEAUTIFUL” and Travis Scott’s “TELEKINESIS.”
So far as solo music goes, SZA debuted “Saturn” again in February alongside reside, sped-up, acapella and instrumental iterations of the report. Presently, there isn’t a phrase on whether or not it would seem on LANA, which has already been leaked as soon as.