Sos

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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.

Compared to his work on Ctrl, for which he helped produce four songs, his approach to SOS was less defined and more experimental. SZA promoted the album on the December 3, 2022, episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live as a musical guest. Kill Bill" became SZA's first song to top the Billboard Hot 100, while all singles except for "Shirt" peaked within the top 10. Petridis found that the songs "shine harder individually than taken in toto, where the sheer profusion causes them to merge into one, blended by a mood of stoned melancholy", with a final product of a "unwieldy" album, where SZA sounds as "a fabulous vocalist, powerful but unshowy, capable of shifting seamlessly into melodic rap". Of course, she’s been busy in the time since, having dropped 16 singles or collabs—including the Oscar-nominated Black Panther track “ All the Stars,” with Kendrick Lamar—an album’s worth of material unto itself, plus a small handful of wildly acidic videos like “ Good Days” and “ Shirt.When SZA collaborated with Cosmopolitan for their February 2021 issue, she talked about the emotions she expected to feel while making the album. And on “Snooze,” a Babyface-produced track so rooted in the classics that the outro fades out rather than ends, she memorializes the woozy feeling of being in love before sneaking in a pitch-shifted addendum: “How you threatening to leave and I’m the main one crying?

Pitchfork may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers.SOS is the second studio album from GRAMMY award winning singer SZA, and the follow up to 2017’s major label debut album Ctrl. During a Billboard cover story published in November, SZA revealed the title of her second studio album was SOS, scheduled for release sometime next month. The first leg of the SOS Tour consisted of shows across 17 cities in Canada and the United States, [83] and Omar Apollo was announced to be the opening act.

And the worthy themes—retribution, nostalgia, ego—amount to the most intimate and juicy self-revelations since the Real World confessional booth. Pre-sales were on April 12, 2023, starting 10 am local time, and an on-sale occurred two days later. SOSis the second studio album from Grammy award winning singer SZA, and the follow up to 2017’s major label debut album Ctrl.Where Ctrl reflected SZA’s journey towards finding self-love and acceptance, her long-awaited sophomore LP SOS finds the St. The first show was on February 21, 2023, at the Schottestein Center in Columbus, Ohio; and the last is on March 23, 2023, at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California.