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SZA is taking on the spicy wings of death.
The 34-year-old musician sat down in the latest episode of Hot Ones ahead of the release of her album Lana.
During the appearance, SZA discussed her songwriting process, relationship with fame, the value of disguise, her love of Sky Zone trampoline parks and more.
Keep reading to find out more…
On her music…
“…I consider myself to be the glue like to my stuff and like the glue to my sound…I don’t know what sh-t means to me until I say it as I do it…and so I’ll usually ask, like ‘was that crazy?’ And he’ll be like *shrugs shoulders* kill your ex…and that’s how it all just comes together and becomes beautiful.”
On suffering to feel accomplished…
“I have a hard time enjoying anything if I don’t suffer for it…I feel like ‘Nobody Gets Me’ is like my goal of like ‘oh, I can make a ballad, I can make XY&Z’…and then they’re just like…but this other song that took you like three seconds to write as like a joke to your engineer is what…I don’t know…suffering adds value in all ways.”
On Ctrl’s impact…
“People say a lot like about Ctrl…but I think people forget like people weren’t really f-cking with it so crazy when it first dropped. That was like a slow ascension…more like people look back on it and was like this meant something to me and I didn’t realize it meant something to me…If anything I’m just more surprised how all of it played out, not that way I thought it would but more than I ever expected at the same time…the word ‘classic’ is like slightly adjacent to something that I created and that’s so crazy and I definitely didn’t see that coming.”
On her relationship to music…
“It’s just not honest enough for me…I be like I thought you liked this? And then they’re like no stupid, we hate this, we want more of this. And I’m just like what, does my boyfriend love me? It’s abusive but it’s also very fulfilling and validating…”
On meeting Simone Biles and their headstand contest…
“Beat her a– right on camera, period. I’m joking, I love you Simone, I’m so proud of you. I’m not no where near as cool as her.”
On privacy…
“I wanted more to be an open book for us to shut the f-ck up because everyone is crazy and violent. I guess I’ve never tried to maintain mystery. I guess I just kind of get scared then I dive back in like an idiot.”
On the value of disguise…
“This one brings me so much peace of mind…it is just in the realm of like being a person is so daunting and like being your own skin and…like just the freedom of, of yeah, for no other reason other than I’m just tired of being not a bug. It’s like what the f-ck, wouldn’t you want to be a bug if you could be anything else?”
On songs that still make her emotional…
“’Nobody Gets Me; because like my ex-fiancé hates me so much and it’s so unfortunate and every time I sing it, it’s just like damn, what the f-ck. And then, ‘Drew Barrymore’…I feel like it just reminds me of so many house parties that I’ve gone to in my hometown and I didn’t have the night that I wanted… ‘Normal Girl’ that’s another one…sometimes ‘Broken Clocks’ cause it reminds me of like an era in my life, that whole like Ctrl era, the whole like making songs at Carter’s grandma’s house…”
On getting a verse from ODB…
“I expected them to tell me no actually so all I could do was beg, profess my love and then chill and I didn’t expect it at all, like they blessed me so crazy. It actually came from video footage from like a documentary thing that Rodney Jerkins had…ODB is just freestyling, doing this in the studio and I’m like wow, this sounds crazy…I thank ODB from beyond for his graciousness.”
