Is SZA's LANA as good as SOS? | Review + Analysis
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- After a year (and a 15 hour delay on release day), LANA by SZA is finally out. This deluxe reissue of her iconic SOS marks yet another well-done record that was worth the wait, but is it worthy of being tied to a masterpiece? In this quick video review, we go over the album, thoughts, and each track. #SZA #SOSDeluxe #LANA
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I am so pissed we didn’t get PSA ….
Christmas or New Year’s, if not Punch… we will find you
@@fellowOzian_y2k well sza did have a while back a version of sos with psa and another song for $4.99 for the whole album included as well.
@@EljohnMacaranas wait who is punch , is he the guy who keeps holding sza back from releasing songs that could actually make a lot of money like guard down , take u down , psa ,nightbird , work it , and others .btw did she say we will get more music? Like will she do a mass drop
Punch is SZA manager and yes he had her keep some songs off sos Lana but we should be getting majority of those u just named
Sza did mention on her instagram story that she will be coming back for her "babies" while referencing Joni and some other songs. I really hope PSA will be pn streaming platforms, one of my favs from the SOS sessions.
This was my first SZA album and I absolutely adored it, I know this is unpopular but I enjoyed Lana more than SOS actually, I just loved so many tracks
BMF, Love Me 4 Me, Drive, What Do I Do, so many good ones!
I think if the record worked better for you, no one can take that from you. That and SOS can be exhausting (as designed) also WANDA prof pic 🫡
I 100% agree I love the Lana songs and No More Hiding is my favorite song. Some of SOS felt more commercial than all of her other stuff which is why people like it so much
@@ethan1969 I agree. It‘s Ctrl>LANA>SOS for me
I agree there is something sooooo personal about this one
like a diary entry like sos but idk i just lovedd this
i see it as a the fame monster (deluxe)/megan act 2 type of project where it’s a canon deluxe but we all just see it separately
Wait TFM is a perfect descriptor bc some of the songs here are career highlights
@@EljohnMacaranasspeaking of Meghan act two since you never made a video what are your thoughts on the project?
just to clarify, only 3-5 songs on lana are actually SOS outtakes, the rest were made in 2023
Omg, that makes it better tbh
@ Saturn, 30 for 30, what do I do, bmf, are all SOS
@@skaura2 30 for 30 was for lana defo not for sos , what did I do was originally for ctrl/crtl deluxe and was called "On accident" but it got new production for sos deluxe
@ItsDrewOfc24 girl are u dumb… no offense but she posted 30 for 30 as a snippet in 2021 and fans called it “treat me better”, what I do is NOT Ctrl era, she posted the snippet in 2020 AFTER ctrl released in 2017, there’s no point in spreading misinformation.
@ItsDrewOfc24 everything that u said is a lie, none of this is from ctrl, 30 for 30 was for SOS.
I need sza too do a mass drop and i hope she makes another album with more songs like scorses baby daddy cuz omg so amazing !
Her dropping her third album properly next summer during the tour would kill me
@ItsDrewOfc24 I love that one. It has a Melanie Martinez sample in it from the song Void
@@jj9533 ugh ik the fact I'm still gobsmacked I love the song sm
Imo I wish she had added psa and that one song that was scrapped from ctrl it would've felt so complete
We need it 😭
shes dropping for christmas/new years
inside man?
she is dropping jan 6
For me, the standout track from the new deluxe is kitchen, I love its vibe!
Yesssssss
REAL
Agree so hard. It’s so unique, it’s like a lullaby almost
I’m glad we got Lana…still waiting for the track that had the Olivia Rodrigo feature… hoping for punk pop SZA
I feel like that was F2F
I feel there were def slight pop rock elements in her deluxe songs like Scorsese baby daddy and then in SOS with f2f
I love Lana, Saturn had a choke hold on me for months. I kinda get doing Lana as a deluxe but at the same time it’s so different I kinda wish it was its own album. But overall I love the deluxe.
My top 3:
3. BMF
2. Kitchen
1. Sucrosese baby daddy
YESSSSS LOVE THAT TOP 3
@@EljohnMacaranascould you pleaseeee check out cece Natalies debate album “miss behaves”. She’s a smaller artist that I really like. Maybe not a full video but I think it would be cool to hear your thoughts on her!
Interesting because I actually felt like no more hiding was a really great opener. I really didn’t like What Do I Do because it’s so different from when it was teased and the Change in instrumental messed with the alignment of the vocals. That actually happened with Diamond Boy and Crybaby too, the verses near the end feel misplaced to me and that’s because they’ve been switched around
I didn’t realize they rearranged it a bit ooooh
Thank you so much for the vid I need it to proceed what I just listened to
Same, my thoughts keep shifting a little, but re: quality on vocal productions, she can always tweak it a little, a lot of albums have slightly different mixes bc of streaming
@ ikr
As a 90s RnB lover, I heard a few seconds of Chill Baby and thought of Get It Together by 702.
I looked it up and wow!
@EljohnMacaranas It becomes pretty obvious in the chorus, right?!
oh you’re LOCKED IN
I don’t play about Solana like that 😭 I’m scared she got another 80 tracks hidden somewhere
unpopular opinion but I personally enjoyed LANA way more than SOS. No skips ❤️🔥
Brave but not entirely insane.
I feel like lizzo might be on a remix of bmf and supposedly melanie mightve been on one of the tracks but got scrapped
OOOO!
@@EljohnMacaranas yess she mightve been on crybaby imo
From what I remember, BMF was supposed to be a collab with Lizzo because, I believe, SZA mentions the phrase “boy from south Detroit”. Months ago, I remember that one party or another (SZA or Lizzo) said that they had a collab called Boy From South Detroit which was confirmed to be on the deluxe.
@@Slayterrrrnah it’s most definitely Sorceress Baby Daddy, that’s most definitely a portals vibe
Crybaby is literally making me tear up. “I know you told stories about me. Most of them awful. All of them true”
SZA knows how to kill you with one offhand line
@ I hope you have a merry Christmas and happy holidays
@@burkluca7738 no LITERALLY this is my fav part of that song
@jackkuhn2336 it gives me chills
Joni and Take You Down should’ve been in the album as well😔
Take You Down might be out on New Years but Joni, I need that in HQ
@@EljohnMacaranas it was already leaked in SC, but I assume she’s gonna have it mastered
Lowkey saturn to sos works for me because its like we're on satuen but now we're dropping from saturn onto a flooded planet and i lerv that
Wait I see the vision
@@EljohnMacaranas yess I'm a mastermind and sos is her calling for help maybe from saturn
Atm my favorite track is bmf tbh I already loved the girl from ipanema so this sample/interpolation ate sza made me hole quake !!!
I feel like she’s so sparing with interpolations that they have impact
@@EljohnMacaranas yess I feel like there's another song on the deluxe that interpolated another song growls
LANA is so good! one of my personal highlights was Kitchen, it's like a, for lack of a better word, a mentally ill version of a sixpence none the richer song and i am here for it!
That description had me choking on my diet pepsi
Honestly I like it but I'm mad Lana isn't its own album because it had so much potential, and the fact that a deluxe album has its own name is super weird and the vibes of the 2 are so different... I'm so glad I can listen to diamond boy now though. The rest of the songs are really good but they weren't her best work. Honestly it needed more work and to be it's own album (in my opinion) I also wish we had Joni because I would imagine it to be the grown version of Jodi or even Go Gina.
I think had she included Joni, Go Gina, and other tracks people wanted, LANA def could have stood on its own but it’s def clear she like flip flopped on whether it’d be SZA 3 or not up until this month
@EljohnMacaranas Go Gina and Jodi are on the CTRL album. That's why I was hoping for Joni on this album.
this album just feel so surreal
I can’t believe that SZA and Rosalia live in the same world at the same time
💙💙💙
I love how you went in so much detail!
It’s so fire ❤❤❤
It gets better each listen, would not be surprised if we woke up one day with a clearer copy
@ So trueee, my personal faves are What Do I Do, My Turn and Scorsese Baby Daddy ^^~
Why ain't nobody talking about the song Crybaby???!! That should've been the single in my opinion 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 SZA got so many classics😭😭😭😭😭
Wait was there actually 100+ unreleased sos tracks 😭😭 watch her pull a billie eilish ilomilo type deal
I’m so scared of her hidden stash of songs, Carly Rae had 200 for Emotion and they’re still leaking every now and then 😭
@@EljohnMacaranas ngl atp we could get a whole anthology album with 100+ tracks from Solana
@@EljohnMacaranas and lana del rey had more than 100 for lust for life... makes you think about how much work goes into these projects wow
Bmf on top fr it's so good along with Kitchen and Diamond Boy
YES KITCHEN
Lizzo may have been cut for other reasons…. IYKYK
@@CatNagTaylorsVersion Lizzo is SZA’s best friend and she literally was just on a live stream w her a few weeks ago
Lizzo and SZA were on Kai’s stream
@@EljohnMacaranastrue Lizzo, Keke Palmer and SZA are all pretty close
One thing I picked up about Crybaby was the little part before the outro, where she says “Can’t stop the raining” and that reminded me of the outro of Prom where she was singing “Like rain is falling, its heavy take it off me, oh it hurts” . idk if it was a nod to it but they were very similar
Could you do a video series about Madonna’s eras and albums. I would be sat for that. Please!
SZA always delivers with albums
From Z to Lana like Homegirl never misses!!!
AND THATS A FACT
Consistency, she deserved AOTY last year
LANA is what melanie martinez wishes PORTALS was. I remember coming on this channel asking you to cover PORTALS and for me it has aged so poorly and is a very bad record. I’m also so sick of these stupid melanie martinez music videos. LANA feels like the heightened portals concept and this deluxe is so good i think. Is it SOS…well no, but SOS is perfection so you really can’t top it. I will be spinning this so much going into the new year. SZA always produces a really thoughtful and amazing set of tracks and i never have doubt that she is going to put something out bad or even mediocre. it is an amazing deluxe and I needed this😭😭 also you should cover ANTI by Rihanna I came back to it and realized it’s an amazing record and every track is perfection
ANTI is so amazing. I feel like covering it sometime next year. Aged like fine wine.
@@EljohnMacaranas Would love to see ANTI! That said, the 10th anniversary is only about a year and a month from now (January 2026), so it might be worth saving for then; either that or Rihanna drops a new album, whichever comes first (and we all know which one it’ll be 😅)
@@con_is_brat to me portals just gets better and better each listen and I’ll never get tired of that album and I’m loving that we’re getting a mv for each track because all her albums are visual albums and I just love the art and dedication she puts into her music
@@kurokami_7 I feel the same! I honestly didn’t like it much on first listen, but that’s how Mel usually works for me. So many songs turned out to be absolute bangers and only a couple (looking at you, “Moon Cycle”) were somewhat underwhelming. I LOVE her conceptual approach completely becoming a creature and experiencing the world that way.
It’s the last hurrah for this character and after K-12 (which I LOVED), I just feel like this is a landmark of its own and is something that will be appreciated in the future the way “O Superman” by Laurie Anderson or “A New Kind of Love” by Imogen Heap are. Especially with songs like “Contortionist,” “Powder,” and “Milk of the Siren”
What I’m saying is that Melanie has created something a little niche that is likely to grab future listeners and be considered “great” while the world just kind of glosses over it right now
Tbh I don't think you can compare portals to sos/lana because they're two separate genres of music and two completely different artists and secondly it actually aged quite well because the whole album is a story with a deeper meaning. Also the music videos are a good thing would you rather have someone lie about putting music videos out for each song or actually do it?
For some reason she got tired of just not being a bug 😩
Lmaooooo
A very good winter record. Her acoustic guitar songs are my fav.
Yessss
my turn issa boooop
YES
Defying gravity... that's MY lime 💜
That’s how I know she was freestyling but god the talent behind it… SZA is a goddess
@@EljohnMacaranas szas in her elphaba oh woaoaoah ALSO CAN U COVER THE WICKED SOUNDTRACK
it’s okay but not as good as sos, the production could’ve just been better on certain tracks tbh
Also i think she updated some vocals on love me 4 me theres like a new post chorus bit
Ngl imo I feel like Drive, Cry Baby, and Another Life are sad songs lowkey I actually cried to Cry Baby and Drive
It’s criminal that Joni isn’t on the track list
JONI NOT GETTING RELEASED OMG
Still mad af about that
Wait, Reputation dropping makes sense (New Years Day) 😮
Honestly, I feel like she’d want to knock these ones out ASAP. An announcement would make better sense tbh but a drop would be a dream come true!
@ thanks for replying! I love your channel and u and Honest are my favorite review channels!!
Early!!!
Thank you 💙🫡
PLEASE DO
DEDICATED
ITS A MASTERPIECE
OR DO BLACKOUT
YAll mad about PSA we want INSIDE MAN
Now you got me double mad bc I remembered about that one 😭
Ctrl >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> LANA>>>>>>>>SOS
CTRL was a masterclass
Oh about Rep TV being out by the end of this year…I have bad news for you
She may be too busy doing charity work for children with cancer for her to drop the TV…would love a surprise New Year’s Eve drop though
So we’re supposed to praise the Melanie Martinez rip off aesthetic +and horrible mixing. She has created a work miles beneath her caliber.
Why wasn’t guard down on LANA? 😭
Maybe another reissue 😭
I've only heard it once and I can already say it's definitely superior then sos for me. And I disagree with you that lana is not it's own thing. I found the record to be a lot diff then sos idk.. only a couple songs like what do I do? Reminded me of sos in terms of production. I feel this album has much more of a richer feel to it and songs like love me 4 me add to that. The washed out production creates this atmospheric feeling when u r listening to it.. it kinda makes me feel like a.. bug 😂
What is the point in comparing? Both are gems
It’s fun to compare and contrast tbh, i think they compliment each other well
Post about Ellie Goulding!
Is she using Taylor’s double album formula?
Nah, LANA was planned out a year ago, she just dropped it very late.
SOS ruined SZA for me.. SOS is my favorite album. And I'm not even a RnB fan
i am actually SO sad that PSA didn't make it to either album. it truly had aplace in my heart, the snippet, and still does but i expected the full version release on LANA.
I know she’ll do it eventually 😭