SZA finds the success of ‘SOS’ “scary” as a result of she was anticipating it to be hated
SZA has admitted that the success of her recently-released second album ‘SOS’ is “scary” as a result of she was anticipating it to flop.
SZA launched her lengthy awaited second album ‘SOS’ final week (December 9) and it’s already topped the Billboard 200, reached Quantity Two within the UK Album Charts and seen SZA turn out to be essentially the most listened to artist on Spotify. Her 17-date North American area tour offered out in seconds.
In a brand new interview with Rolling Stone although, SZA mentioned she “by no means thought in 1,000,000 years that individuals would love it.”
She went on to speak about numerous emotional low factors all through the recording course of and revealed that the week earlier than ‘SOS’ was launched, she textual content her file label saying “we don’t must put this out. We may simply pull out and transfer it to January.”
“[Another] a part of me was identical to, I simply wanna get it over with. I wanna meet my very own destiny. If [people] hate it, then nice. I can by no means do music once more. And I instructed my engineer, we’ll transfer to India and we’ll dwell on an ashram and we’ll take a vow of silence and that’s it,” continued SZA.
“And additionally it is actually scary that it didn’t go that manner as a result of I’m like, now what do I do,” she added.
In a five-star overview, NME wrote: “5 years in the past, SZA was heralded for redefining R&B along with her eclectic influences and ‘SOS’ takes that vary even additional. “I’m making one of the best album of my life for this subsequent album,” SZA instructed Flaunt in 2020 and ‘SOS’ is simply that – an exceptional file that hardly places a foot mistaken and raises the bar even larger than she set it earlier than.”
“That quote, although, got here with a caveat: “As a result of it’s going to be my final album.” Right here’s hoping SZA reneges on that declaration however, if that is the final we hear from right here, at the least she’s going out on the very best of highs.”
It’s additionally been revealed – through a behind the scenes documentary – that ‘SOS’ may have featured collaborations with the likes of Harry Kinds, Billie Eilish, Doja Cat, Drake and Frank Ocean.