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 Number Two within the UK Album Charts and seen SZA change into 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 stated she “never thought in a million years that people would like it.”
She went on to speak about varied emotional low factors all through the recording course of and revealed that the week earlier than ‘SOS’ was launched, she textual content her report label saying “we don’t have to put this out. We could just pull out and move it to January.”
“[Another] part of me was just like, I just wanna get it over with. I wanna meet my own fate. If [people] hate it, then great. I can never do music again. And I told my engineer, we’ll move to India and we’ll live on an ashram and we’ll take a vow of silence and that’s it,” continued SZA.
“And it is also really scary that it didn’t go that way because I’m like, now what do I do,” she added.
In a five-star assessment, NME wrote: “Five years ago, SZA was heralded for redefining R&B with her eclectic influences and ‘SOS’ takes that range even further. “I’m making the best album of my life for this next album,” SZA informed Flaunt in 2020 and ‘SOS’ is simply that – an exceptional report that hardly places a foot mistaken and raises the bar even increased than she set it earlier than.”
“That quote, though, came with a caveat: “Because it’s going to be my last album.” Here’s hoping SZA reneges on that declaration however, if that is the final we hear from right here, a minimum of she’s going out on the best of highs.”
It’s additionally been revealed – by way of a behind the scenes documentary – that ‘SOS’ might have featured collaborations with the likes of Harry Styles, Billie Eilish, Doja Cat, Drake and Frank Ocean.