Sza will preview so many songs and never give her fans the songs they actually asked for! Cause i wanted to hear the "Joni" song she previewed. She needs to make an archive album similar to Megs' "something for the hotties" album where it was just songs from her archive folder that fans asked for.
she's adding songs to the deluxe on christmas (but let's take this with a grain of salt cuz we know how she is 😭) so maybe some of the tracks we all anticipated might be released
She’s wrong for not adding PSA but she did her big one with this project. This also feels like the true follow up to CTRL and has hints of her mixtape days. I’m gonna be screaming the lyrics to Kitchen and telling people I’m gonna fold them like a yoga mat for the next year.
In my opinion Lana doesn’t give me a ctrl follow up,I think it’s more sos than anything,just the aftermath of SZA being hurt from everything she went thru I her relationships and she’s finally healing.
@ thanks tips, I’ve got google. I want it on streaming with the rest of the album. I’ll also take the solo open arms cause Travis did nothing on that verse
16:04 I love Kitchen but it also sounds so much different from her normal voice, it almost feels like a different person singing lol... I low key want her to explore this vocal direction more, there is something very Tame Impala in it too
@@daniilnoun8262 yesss! I think she was trying to kinda mimic the way the Isley Brothers performed Voyage- but I agree it sounds like she did something a lil dif and it sounds good
Idk why, but dat song low key reminds me of some Christmas song in the chorus part I think..where it reminds me of dat Dancer & Prancer & vixen,etc.,lol but yeah, love the vibe from Kitchen, my top fav forsure is Drive
This album was honestly perfect, I think its her most versatile and true to herself project that she has released. Its like all her albums and Eps mixed in one. She made sure that everyone had a song for them with all the different genres. May I say her best project🫣 And ppl who don't get it are people who may not be familiar with her older work🤷🏾♀️
It’s definitely not as revolutionary as CTRL or SOS, but I don’t believe that was the intention to since it’s an SOS Deluxe. It’s a great collection of SZA songs that her fans will appreciate. I’m sure she’s saving the more special and groundbreaking material for her official 3rd studio album. Also missed opportunity to not have a LDR feature, that would be ear candy 🥹
I’ve been waiting 6 years.. 6 years for “Guard Down”. I was 15 !! I’m 21 now!! It’s been one of the most teased songs being teased like 5 times. I hate when she previews songs and never releases them. Then pretends to not see everyone asking for them
Love Me 4 Me 10:14 Gives me Janelle Monáe arch android 2010 vibes. Especially in the ending that whole intergalactic siren alien I love it. Also the instrumentation sounds strikingly similar.
YES! My go to person for an album overview! I was waiting on you homegirl! 😁 Words cannot express how much I love this album and you can tell the shifting of her energy on this album. I still have SOS in rotation too. 😏 The wait was worth it for this album! I do hope she will do an album with the music she has in archive because I know she has A LOT! The ones I came across on the internet are just as good! 🤞🏽 Thanks for your overview and Happy Holidays! 🙏🏽
Re 30 for 30: I think the sample was to also to ref 'Thro some Ds' which is a song that samples I Call Your Name and is all about flexing and being desirable. I haven't fully gotten through the album, but so far 30 for 30 and Scorsese Baby are my faves (besides Saturn).
i feel like SZA isn’t giving us a true image, it feels like she’s just feeding fans the vibe they want from her - the melancholic, muddy and lonely sounding music dislike the disconnection in dedication and artistic passion - teasing, delaying releases, and making changes translates in the music as disinterest in the project to me
I really liked the deluxe edition of SOS! It flows with the standard SOS well. Lastly, ‘30 for 30’ is indeed a dig towards Drake. Drake has a song named ‘30 for 30 Freestyle’🫣😅
Okay but will we ever get inside man or hold me close on one of these projects 😢? Like someone said she feeds us then gives us crumbs at the same time😂. I really loved drive, Scorsese, crybaby, 30 for 30
Yeah this problem sza has of teasing songs and not releasing them should be adressed more. Joni, PSA, guard down Another comment said they wait SIX years for guard down and it has been teased 5 times, how crazy is that? Love SZA, love the album but she's honestly unprofessional I'd much rather wait for her music for 2 years without hearing anything abt it, then keep getting teased with music that she isn't even going to release
What ever happened to PSA??? She teased that song and it never came out. I don’t really care for the “deluxe” even though it could have been an album tbh. Felt like these were a lot of SoundCloud unreleased music
its weird how in the chorus of Diamond boy the drums go silent when the singing is not on beat because orginally the song had no drums so the the flow wasnt as much on beat. That must have been one of the songs that had problems with mixing
Unpopular opinion: people need to chill with the “easter eggs” the swifities always go too far with it and now the other fandom are going the same route… it’s annoying and tiring
I mean it’s not bad at all it’s a great album it’s just annoying this is some how a deluxe basically a new album. Her next real album needs to sound completely different from this snooze sound
I wish ‘Lana’ was its own project, I actually prefer it over ‘SOS’. I understand the reason she made it a deluxe as it’s giving hurt/heal vibes. I just really enjoy the artwork and outdoors vibe that goes with ‘Lana’ and think it fits the songs so well. Grateful we got the deluxe either way! 🐞💚
30 for 30, What Do I Do, and Another Life are my favorites. My one friend and I may or may not be seeing Kendrick and SZA this summer. We’re in Ohio, but maybe going to Detroit? The ticket prices are kinda crazy though ☠️
@@frappiccinno1480 she’s not gonna release an official version of a song that was made for saturday night live. she probably doesn’t even have the rights to it bc it’s not a sza song
I wish you clipped to the audio with Joao Gilberto singing “The girl from ipanema” instead. Not you clipping to frank sinatra and then saying the song is Brazilian in 7:20 🤦🏽♂️😂 Gurl do you not know frank sinatra is from New Jersey???😂 Its not even by Frank, Give the Credit Where it’s due!👏
The production on a lot of Lana just isn’t it. A lot of over echo and everything sounding really muddy. The only songs where this works in their favour is Sorcese Baby Daddy and Kitchen because they have this overall lo-fi feel. What Did I Do is produced so differently to the rest of the album and it sounds different in a good way 😬
what happened to her voice?? sounds so nasal and incredibly over produced! I remember her voice was so soft and buttery in her first EPs and now feels incredibly metallic.
omg i honestly didn’t like the whole album when i first listened to it, and rn i do like it but i think the problem with sza now is that she is reusing her sound, and that’s a problem cuz now it doesn’t sound like a sza song, it just sounds like a bunch of songs without flavor, i was worried bc at first listen i only liked “kitchen” and “cry baby”. The album is not the best for me, it really could have been better or even put actual songs that we been waiting for… 😭
@@naomi.cannibal they do kinda sound a bit similar thou, same instrumentals and vibe i guess...fans were speaking on the similarity of the cover arts(masks) and you know melanie martinez is famous for cry baby...
@@AlexanderSki no one said they didn’t but you’re telling me everything we need to know about you since you seem to be the only one that has a problem with women also sharing their work with the world…
It was good, yes, SOS in my opinion it is better than Lana. With that said, why does she do that? Literally don’t put out previews, no PSA and Joni is crazy. 3 and 2 years bro, come on SZA. I know it’s her music, so it’s her decision, but it’s crap and upsetting.
Sza will preview so many songs and never give her fans the songs they actually asked for! Cause i wanted to hear the "Joni" song she previewed. She needs to make an archive album similar to Megs' "something for the hotties" album where it was just songs from her archive folder that fans asked for.
it's all punch's fault. he keeps taking them out and delaying their release.
@jasmineosman2556can’t stand him!
she's adding songs to the deluxe on christmas (but let's take this with a grain of salt cuz we know how she is 😭) so maybe some of the tracks we all anticipated might be released
@@repsmila so the deluxe is getting a deluxe? im confused. why add more a few days later?
@@kd_16420 respectfully i wish he'd take a backseat in the input, or at least let her make the final decisions when it comes to the actual music
She’s wrong for not adding PSA but she did her big one with this project. This also feels like the true follow up to CTRL and has hints of her mixtape days.
I’m gonna be screaming the lyrics to Kitchen and telling people I’m gonna fold them like a yoga mat for the next year.
Also I think BMF is “bad mother f**ker”
@@SailorScarborough yesss u and me both
In my opinion Lana doesn’t give me a ctrl follow up,I think it’s more sos than anything,just the aftermath of SZA being hurt from everything she went thru I her relationships and she’s finally healing.
She released PSA with the alternate SOS album cover in 2023
@ thanks tips, I’ve got google. I want it on streaming with the rest of the album. I’ll also take the solo open arms cause Travis did nothing on that verse
16:04 I love Kitchen but it also sounds so much different from her normal voice, it almost feels like a different person singing lol... I low key want her to explore this vocal direction more, there is something very Tame Impala in it too
@@daniilnoun8262 yesss! I think she was trying to kinda mimic the way the Isley Brothers performed Voyage- but I agree it sounds like she did something a lil dif and it sounds good
I love kitchen! It was such a different sound! ❤
Idk why, but dat song low key reminds me of some Christmas song in the chorus part I think..where it reminds me of dat Dancer & Prancer & vixen,etc.,lol but yeah, love the vibe from Kitchen, my top fav forsure is Drive
Kitchen sounded very Beach House coded to me.
This album was honestly perfect, I think its her most versatile and true to herself project that she has released. Its like all her albums and Eps mixed in one. She made sure that everyone had a song for them with all the different genres. May I say her best project🫣 And ppl who don't get it are people who may not be familiar with her older work🤷🏾♀️
Lana felt like a true follow-up to CTRL. i would've liked if SOS had more of the feel and vibe of Lana
Absolutely. CTRL was the first record I bought for myself and Lana felt like a love letter
I love how SZA was like "Y'all bees want the album? Fine, this is the album cover you're getting, deal with it" 😭
I like the one of her covered in green leaves better. it fit the outside campfire feel of the album
i feel like this cover is way better than the leaves one honestly
It’s definitely not as revolutionary as CTRL or SOS, but I don’t believe that was the intention to since it’s an SOS Deluxe. It’s a great collection of SZA songs that her fans will appreciate. I’m sure she’s saving the more special and groundbreaking material for her official 3rd studio album. Also missed opportunity to not have a LDR feature, that would be ear candy 🥹
I really wanted her to name her second album ALT instead of SOS. So her 3rd studio album could be called DEL or DELETE 😅
@@Just999Meomg yesss that would’ve been so cute CTRL, ALT, DEL
I’ve been waiting 6 years.. 6 years for “Guard Down”. I was 15 !! I’m 21 now!! It’s been one of the most teased songs being teased like 5 times. I hate when she previews songs and never releases them. Then pretends to not see everyone asking for them
Guard Down WILL BE MY DOWNFALL 😭😭😭
Love Me 4 Me 10:14 Gives me Janelle Monáe arch android 2010 vibes. Especially in the ending that whole intergalactic siren alien I love it. Also the instrumentation sounds strikingly similar.
Someone still remember the archAndroid yesss
Kitchen is my favourite. Might be my fave track from the entire SOS era.
Yesss mee❤
YES! My go to person for an album overview! I was waiting on you homegirl! 😁 Words cannot express how much I love this album and you can tell the shifting of her energy on this album. I still have SOS in rotation too. 😏 The wait was worth it for this album! I do hope she will do an album with the music she has in archive because I know she has A LOT! The ones I came across on the internet are just as good! 🤞🏽 Thanks for your overview and Happy Holidays! 🙏🏽
@@Ty2Breezie thank u!! Hope you had a great Christmas!!
BMF means Blowin’ Money Fast she says this in the ending of the song
scorcese baby daddy is my fav has the same tune in void by melanie martinez + her new look was inspired by mm she had the same team make her mask
me and my friend did a little listening party yesterday over facetime and we loved the album but we were so confused by the cover art lol??
@@nogirlIonlyusevenmo She’s a bug girly apparently 😭
BMF stands for blowing money fast
I thought it stands for "bad mother f*cker"
@@colorfuldivinity Thank uuuu 🧎🏿♀️
Thought it was beautiful male fantasy lmaoooo😂
It stands for Black Mafia Family
oh i thought it was best male friend
Re 30 for 30: I think the sample was to also to ref 'Thro some Ds' which is a song that samples I Call Your Name and is all about flexing and being desirable. I haven't fully gotten through the album, but so far 30 for 30 and Scorsese Baby are my faves (besides Saturn).
When I heard the first few seconds of Chill Baby, I immediately thought of Get It Together by 702
@@brookesmith6998 your minddd
Kitchen is top 2, and it’s not two…
@@nicolesherman8974 Say that
kitchen clearsssss one of the best tracks on there
I absolutely LOVE your lyric breakdowns and your channel! ❤
one of the best album reviewers…i love how you describe songs
I was underwhelmed by the deluxe, it felt like throw away tracks/rough drafts with good production
Hi naomi thank you for this video! It was like talking to a friend and your analysis was spot on too!
i feel like SZA isn’t giving us a true image, it feels like she’s just feeding fans the vibe they want from her - the melancholic, muddy and lonely sounding music
dislike the disconnection in dedication and artistic passion - teasing, delaying releases, and making changes translates in the music as disinterest in the project to me
I’m so upset that she left “Take You Down”, “Community Dick”or whatever it’s called off of Lana 😕
@@dynishhh I’m so glad I don’t keep up w the leaks anymore bc I used to get soooo mad when we never got official versions
@ she’s SICK for this!!!! luckily I have it as a mp3 file 😅🤪
ALSO BRACE YOURSELF
Kitchen sounds like if SZA made a with the band Beachouse even the way she approaches the vocals ❤ 16:11
Cry baby, kitchen, 30 for 30, another life, and get behind me interlude are my faves❤
This was a really good take, I also like how you structured this. An easy listen
I really liked the deluxe edition of SOS! It flows with the standard SOS well. Lastly, ‘30 for 30’ is indeed a dig towards Drake. Drake has a song named ‘30 for 30 Freestyle’🫣😅
@@JulianSteve awoop a direct hit then I fear
I loved Lana IMMEDIATELY! And it made me love SOS even more ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
I don't know what sample is used in another life, but my favourite use of it is "Split" by 88rising and Niki. It just feels so soft and nostalgic.
Imo i feel like shes falling from Saturn onto SOS like she falling onto that ocean planet and i love that
Since Mariah Carey emancipation of Mimi, this is the only album that’s gives me everything!!! Omg it’s soooo therapeutic!
I think it’s pretty solid
Good video NC! Merry Quismos!
Okay but will we ever get inside man or hold me close on one of these projects 😢? Like someone said she feeds us then gives us crumbs at the same time😂. I really loved drive, Scorsese, crybaby, 30 for 30
Yeah this problem sza has of teasing songs and not releasing them should be adressed more. Joni, PSA, guard down
Another comment said they wait SIX years for guard down and it has been teased 5 times, how crazy is that?
Love SZA, love the album but she's honestly unprofessional
I'd much rather wait for her music for 2 years without hearing anything abt it, then keep getting teased with music that she isn't even going to release
What ever happened to PSA??? She teased that song and it never came out. I don’t really care for the “deluxe” even though it could have been an album tbh. Felt like these were a lot of SoundCloud unreleased music
I think BMF is “blowin’ money fast” which sza is saying towards the end 💖💖 but who knows hehe
Sza snapped! She knows how to put out good music and dip
its weird how in the chorus of Diamond boy the drums go silent when the singing is not on beat because orginally the song had no drums so the the flow wasnt as much on beat. That must have been one of the songs that had problems with mixing
7:03 Blowing Money Fast
Such a good album. The whole SOS with Deluxe is perfection 👏🏼🫶🏼
The lyrics "Hate to be the one" reminded me so much of Miley Cyrus's He Could Be the One, so that's my favorite section too lol
I will not forgive her for teasing Brace Yourself on that damn whiteboard for it to not be on the deluxe and not acknowledged.
Unpopular opinion: people need to chill with the “easter eggs” the swifities always go too far with it and now the other fandom are going the same route… it’s annoying and tiring
I think 30 for 30 is a Drake reference. He has a song that with the same song. 😀✨
The fact you know what she saying >>> ps you know know your music !!
not me coming here thinking you’re gonna be talking about Mother Del Rey❤ still love u bae
I mean it’s not bad at all it’s a great album it’s just annoying this is some how a deluxe basically a new album. Her next real album needs to sound completely different from this snooze sound
she’s wrong for not putting PSA on it but yes love the deluxe so good!
I wish ‘Lana’ was its own project, I actually prefer it over ‘SOS’. I understand the reason she made it a deluxe as it’s giving hurt/heal vibes.
I just really enjoy the artwork and outdoors vibe that goes with ‘Lana’ and think it fits the songs so well. Grateful we got the deluxe either way! 🐞💚
STAYC MENTIONED 🗣️🗣️
"Magnetic charismatic" 😭😭
30 for 30, What Do I Do, and Another Life are my favorites. My one friend and I may or may not be seeing Kendrick and SZA this summer. We’re in Ohio, but maybe going to Detroit? The ticket prices are kinda crazy though ☠️
I just want a full version of Big Boy (Its Cuffing Season) 🥲
that’s not a real song. it was a skit
@@Mikaielle.and?
@@frappiccinno1480 she’s not gonna release an official version of a song that was made for saturday night live. she probably doesn’t even have the rights to it bc it’s not a sza song
@ we know🤯we still want the song🤯🤯
@@JalenTheCreative lolll it woulda been perfect for the cold weather
I think BMF stands for Black Mafia Family, a crime show based in Detroit hence the lyrics being about a boy from South Detroit.
I wish you clipped to the audio with Joao Gilberto singing “The girl from ipanema” instead. Not you clipping to frank sinatra and then saying the song is Brazilian in 7:20 🤦🏽♂️😂 Gurl do you not know frank sinatra is from New Jersey???😂 Its not even by Frank, Give the Credit Where it’s due!👏
8:42 ayy stayc mentioned 😂
I just wish she would enunciate
Cursive singing 😅
Diamond Boy🥺>>>>
The production on a lot of Lana just isn’t it. A lot of over echo and everything sounding really muddy. The only songs where this works in their favour is Sorcese Baby Daddy and Kitchen because they have this overall lo-fi feel. What Did I Do is produced so differently to the rest of the album and it sounds different in a good way 😬
7:18 bassanova 😊
what happened to her voice?? sounds so nasal and incredibly over produced! I remember her voice was so soft and buttery in her first EPs and now feels incredibly metallic.
Yeah at some points I was like am I still listening to the same album?
CHAT
🗣️🗣️🗣️ Should I fold that b** no yoga mat? chat! 🗣️🗣️🗣️
You are so smart
Lana was a grower for me❤
Girl Switch I call your name is the same of the song. This song it’s been sample twice by rich Dope Boy research it’s paying homage to
Also the SOS cover is a call back to princess diana picture yes.
BMF = blowin money fast (I think)!
I need some kid to use their make a wish to make sza release PSA or sumn like it's gonna take a miracle ATP girl just drop a single it's not that hard
omg i honestly didn’t like the whole album when i first listened to it, and rn i do like it but i think the problem with sza now is that she is reusing her sound, and that’s a problem cuz now it doesn’t sound like a sza song, it just sounds like a bunch of songs without flavor, i was worried bc at first listen i only liked “kitchen” and “cry baby”. The album is not the best for me, it really could have been better or even put actual songs that we been waiting for… 😭
I hate the album cover so bad 😂😭
Can we talk about how gorgeous your face is?
baby daddy samples melanie martinez VOID...best to listen to both of them to get into the vibe of the song
@@ljhighness4113 I’ve heard both songs but I never caught the sample!
@@naomi.cannibal they do kinda sound a bit similar thou, same instrumentals and vibe i guess...fans were speaking on the similarity of the cover arts(masks) and you know melanie martinez is famous for cry baby...
I’d like to see your thoughts on Tyler The Creators latest release! I loved LANA tho.
30 for 30 is a whack to Drake. Drake have a song called 30 for 30
The album just sounded like everything Sza has ever released
i think Scorsese Baby Daddy is sampling Void by Melanie Martinez
She says it wasn't directly sampled but there's absolutely no way there wasn't inspiration taken. Even the vocal delivery and affects give Void.
And her aesthetic, but maybe she’s said she was inspired idk
Melanie Martinez and Sza the only insects/mythical beings in the music industry 😂
del rey?
Solana, her name
I love Frank Sinatra 🥰 i want more male singers!! Back then it was Frank, Elvis, Michael Jackson, Prince, like what happened? Women just took over…
And that’s a problem how?
@@essiespooks because men made great art before and still could. you hate men, we get it.
@@AlexanderSki no one said they didn’t but you’re telling me everything we need to know about you since you seem to be the only one that has a problem with women also sharing their work with the world…
@@essiespooks all i said was i want more men in music. you are mentally unstable and looking for problems you freak show.
It was good, yes, SOS in my opinion it is better than Lana. With that said, why does she do that? Literally don’t put out previews, no PSA and Joni is crazy. 3 and 2 years bro, come on SZA. I know it’s her music, so it’s her decision, but it’s crap and upsetting.