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Two years ago, after a five-year hiatus, SZA dropped her sophomore album SOS. Wildly successful, it broke numerous records, including becoming the largest streaming week for any R&B album in US music history. It also gained her numerous awards including a Grammy Award for Best Progressive R&B Album and a nomination for Album of the Year.
Today, Friday December 20, SZA is set to finally drop her long-awaited follow-up, LANA: SOS Deluxe. With 15 new tracks, it is pretty much a brand new album. Rumoured for a while but only confirmed last week, the record was confirmed with a teaser video of Ben Stiller in a car singing along to one of the new drops.
In honour of her latest drop, we’ve dived into her discography to rank ten of her best tracks. Before we get into this, let it be known that SZA’s discography is one of the best of our generation. Zero skips. This list could be updated every week with ten different songs and still stand. But for now…
A true film fan, SZA has referenced films and film stars throughout her career. The third track on her EP Z is inspired by Julia Roberts and her character in Pretty Women. Layered with 80s-inspired synth-pop sounds, its softly pulsating beats and wistful lyrics capture the ache of unreciprocated love.
There’s this video of SZA on a tour bus, taken almost eight years ago, where she is dancing around on a sofa listening to “Love Galore”. But instead of Travis Scott’s voice after the chorus, it was a second unreleased verse. While for years all we had was that video, in 2022 SZA dropped Ctrl (Deluxe) which featured the full version of the song. It is fun and cheeky but also unbelievably real. I too am “working on my aura, cleaning up and working overtime”.
This one is here because my girl has range and I will not take any slanderous accusations that she does not. Reminiscent of early 00s pop-rock, “F2F” from SOS highlights her true versatility as an artist. Who else sings “smoking on a backwood because I miss my ex / now I’m ovulating and need rough sex” on rocky drums before screaming “I fuck him because I miss you.” 10/10, no notes.
In 2012, SZA released See.SZA.Run, a seven-track EP she made after dropping out of college. Opening with “this here is the epic tale of a broken mind”, “Country” was a song that showed SZA was in for the long run and truly an artist to watch. Unpacking what it is to feel isolated and generally misunderstood, it is a song for those of us who have ever felt like there is something within us that keeps us isolated and misunderstood. At the end, she sings, “one day if I live to tell the tale / I’ll tell the tale of how I lost my mind”. Chances are 13 years ago she never knew her life and career would be what it now is. There’s something truly beautiful about that.
OK, I am aware this makes the list 11 songs… sorry to my editor! But picking between these two felt criminal and in many ways they reflect very similar sentiments. Do you fear growing up and not growing up at the same time? So does SZA. On “20 Something”, she reflects on what it is to be in your 20s (hell!).
Also released on Ctrl was “Prom”, a bittersweet song about navigating all the harder aspects of life as we grow up. On the bridge, she sings “Feel like I’m wasting time / promise to get a little better as I get older”. Sometimes we get it wrong but eventually we get it right, even if just momentarily – and both songs capture that sentiment perfectly.
This is one of the most commercially successful songs from SOS. A stripped-back ode to intimacy and devotion, layered with soft guitar riffs and understated percussion. Her vocals are effortlessly raw, confessing an unshakable attachment: “I can’t lose when I’m with you.” The track feels like the soundtrack for a quiet moment, perfectly balanced between yearning and calm. There’s nothing crazy or over the top, just SZA’s voice carrying the weight of emotions we’ve all felt but might not admit.
“Hey lurvvvvvvvv, I lost you babe. Picking up a penny with a press-on is easier than holding you down.” Exactly! “Go Gina” deserves to be on this list for that opening line alone. Referencing Gina from the American sitcom Martin, played by Tisha Campbell–Martin, “Go Gina” is one of her zero fucks, “it is what it is” songs. The live, stripped-back Vevo LIFT cover is the perfect version of this song.
I really thought about gatekeeping this song, but after releasing how much of the world is not aware of its existence, I think it is time. Released in 2013, “Sobriety” is a chilling and deeply poetic song detailing love and substance misuse. Sometimes love is the drug and sometimes people use substances to quieten what the reality of love really feels like. To this day, I have never come across a song that makes me feel the way this song does. Listen to it alone, on full volume with noise-cancelling headphones under ambient light. Consider it my Christmas gift to you… but turn it into a TikTok sound and I will come for you.
Arguably one of SZA’s sexiest songs, “Low” was another standout from SOS. It’s the perfect soundtrack for the post-devastation part of a breakup, when you are ready to put new clothes on and feel like a person again. I hate the word empowering but in many ways, this is what that song is. When she sings “Got another side of me, I like to get it poppin”. It’s true, we’ve all got another side to us. This is one of the songs that reminds us that an appearance of that alter ego is often necessary.
What SZA does best is make music that is gutwrenchingly authentic, with lines that make you choke on your drink at first listen. The opening track to her debut album, “Supermodel” is a masterclass in how to make a classic SZA song.
Written as a letter to a past lover, she goes from dropping secrets (“I’ve been secretly banging your homeboy”) to breaking down the insecurities in relationships and within oneself. “Leave me lonely for prettier woman / you know I need too much attention for shit like that”. I have nothing else to say on that, that’s it… that is the lyric.
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Two years ago, after a five-year hiatus, SZA dropped her sophomore album SOS. Wildly successful, it broke numerous records, including becoming the largest streaming week for any R&B album in US music history. It also gained her numerous awards including a Grammy Award for Best Progressive R&B Album and a nomination for Album of the Year.
Today, Friday December 20, SZA is set to finally drop her long-awaited follow-up, LANA: SOS Deluxe. With 15 new tracks, it is pretty much a brand new album. Rumoured for a while but only confirmed last week, the record was confirmed with a teaser video of Ben Stiller in a car singing along to one of the new drops.
In honour of her latest drop, we’ve dived into her discography to rank ten of her best tracks. Before we get into this, let it be known that SZA’s discography is one of the best of our generation. Zero skips. This list could be updated every week with ten different songs and still stand. But for now…
A true film fan, SZA has referenced films and film stars throughout her career. The third track on her EP Z is inspired by Julia Roberts and her character in Pretty Women. Layered with 80s-inspired synth-pop sounds, its softly pulsating beats and wistful lyrics capture the ache of unreciprocated love.
There’s this video of SZA on a tour bus, taken almost eight years ago, where she is dancing around on a sofa listening to “Love Galore”. But instead of Travis Scott’s voice after the chorus, it was a second unreleased verse. While for years all we had was that video, in 2022 SZA dropped Ctrl (Deluxe) which featured the full version of the song. It is fun and cheeky but also unbelievably real. I too am “working on my aura, cleaning up and working overtime”.
This one is here because my girl has range and I will not take any slanderous accusations that she does not. Reminiscent of early 00s pop-rock, “F2F” from SOS highlights her true versatility as an artist. Who else sings “smoking on a backwood because I miss my ex / now I’m ovulating and need rough sex” on rocky drums before screaming “I fuck him because I miss you.” 10/10, no notes.
In 2012, SZA released See.SZA.Run, a seven-track EP she made after dropping out of college. Opening with “this here is the epic tale of a broken mind”, “Country” was a song that showed SZA was in for the long run and truly an artist to watch. Unpacking what it is to feel isolated and generally misunderstood, it is a song for those of us who have ever felt like there is something within us that keeps us isolated and misunderstood. At the end, she sings, “one day if I live to tell the tale / I’ll tell the tale of how I lost my mind”. Chances are 13 years ago she never knew her life and career would be what it now is. There’s something truly beautiful about that.
OK, I am aware this makes the list 11 songs… sorry to my editor! But picking between these two felt criminal and in many ways they reflect very similar sentiments. Do you fear growing up and not growing up at the same time? So does SZA. On “20 Something”, she reflects on what it is to be in your 20s (hell!).
Also released on Ctrl was “Prom”, a bittersweet song about navigating all the harder aspects of life as we grow up. On the bridge, she sings “Feel like I’m wasting time / promise to get a little better as I get older”. Sometimes we get it wrong but eventually we get it right, even if just momentarily – and both songs capture that sentiment perfectly.
This is one of the most commercially successful songs from SOS. A stripped-back ode to intimacy and devotion, layered with soft guitar riffs and understated percussion. Her vocals are effortlessly raw, confessing an unshakable attachment: “I can’t lose when I’m with you.” The track feels like the soundtrack for a quiet moment, perfectly balanced between yearning and calm. There’s nothing crazy or over the top, just SZA’s voice carrying the weight of emotions we’ve all felt but might not admit.
“Hey lurvvvvvvvv, I lost you babe. Picking up a penny with a press-on is easier than holding you down.” Exactly! “Go Gina” deserves to be on this list for that opening line alone. Referencing Gina from the American sitcom Martin, played by Tisha Campbell–Martin, “Go Gina” is one of her zero fucks, “it is what it is” songs. The live, stripped-back Vevo LIFT cover is the perfect version of this song.
I really thought about gatekeeping this song, but after releasing how much of the world is not aware of its existence, I think it is time. Released in 2013, “Sobriety” is a chilling and deeply poetic song detailing love and substance misuse. Sometimes love is the drug and sometimes people use substances to quieten what the reality of love really feels like. To this day, I have never come across a song that makes me feel the way this song does. Listen to it alone, on full volume with noise-cancelling headphones under ambient light. Consider it my Christmas gift to you… but turn it into a TikTok sound and I will come for you.
Arguably one of SZA’s sexiest songs, “Low” was another standout from SOS. It’s the perfect soundtrack for the post-devastation part of a breakup, when you are ready to put new clothes on and feel like a person again. I hate the word empowering but in many ways, this is what that song is. When she sings “Got another side of me, I like to get it poppin”. It’s true, we’ve all got another side to us. This is one of the songs that reminds us that an appearance of that alter ego is often necessary.
What SZA does best is make music that is gutwrenchingly authentic, with lines that make you choke on your drink at first listen. The opening track to her debut album, “Supermodel” is a masterclass in how to make a classic SZA song.
Written as a letter to a past lover, she goes from dropping secrets (“I’ve been secretly banging your homeboy”) to breaking down the insecurities in relationships and within oneself. “Leave me lonely for prettier woman / you know I need too much attention for shit like that”. I have nothing else to say on that, that’s it… that is the lyric.
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