SZA Has Penned Down 100 Tracks For Her New Album
For her upcoming album, SZA has disclosed that she has written 100 songs. She also stated that it might arrive “any day now.”
Although she recently stated that she was not in a rush to release it, the singer’s much anticipated second album, the follow-up to her critically acclaimed 2017 debut ‘Ctrl,’ had been touted for years.
Speaking to TMZ paparazzi at LAX airport, SZA has recently disclosed that she has written a significant number of songs for the album over the last five years, and that its release date is still uncertain, though it may be soon.
Announcing that the album might release any day now, SZA was then asked how many songs she has penned for the album.
“Total? 100,” she replied. “Maybe, like, I don’t even know actually. Five years of material.”
Check out the interview below.
The long-awaited official video for SZA’s single ‘Shirt,’ which she debuted at a livestream event last year, is also ready to go and will be released soon, she said during her performance at Austin City Limits this month.
She told the audience that the video needs to have one minor thing changed: “I fixed that and it is turned in and is about to come out. So, that’s the truth.”
SZA confirms the “Shirt” video has been officially turned in and is coming out soon pic.twitter.com/08lcbatsJT
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“I don’t even know what this album is about and what it sounds like,” the singer said during a recent interview with Complex. “Which is why I had to go to the mode of what feels good to my brain and to my energy and the songs that I think are hot, I just have to go with them.”
SZA continued by saying that she had no idea what the album that comes after ‘Ctrl’ “sounds like to anybody else,” adding that it was challenging to identify a certain sonic direction. “It’s a little bit of everything,” she said. “It’s a little aggressive. Some parts are incredibly soft. Some of them are ballads. I don’t know. It’s all over the place. It’s just where my heart is.”
SZA has released a few singles since the release of ‘Ctrl’ in 2017 and has been on numerous other artists’ songs. She collaborated with Kendrick Lamar on the Black Panther soundtrack cut ‘All The Stars’ in 2018. The Ty Dolla $ign-assisted singles ‘Hit Different’ and ‘Good Days’ were two of her singles released in 2020. She also released ‘I Hate U’ the previous year.
SZA released a deluxe version of ‘Ctrl’ in June to mark the album’s fifth birthday. A different version of the Travis Scott duet ‘Love Galore’ was added in the new edition, along with the previously unreleased songs ‘2AM,’ ‘Miles,’ ‘Percolator,’ ‘Tread Carefully,’ ‘Awkward’ and ‘Jodie’.
—Silviya.Y
