https://www.google.com/amp/s/consequenceofsound.net/2018/05/sza-says-her-voice-is-permanently-injured/amp/
― big firework, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 16:45 (six years ago) link
Oh that turned out to be a weird link with the google url.
But yeah she played in NYC last night after resting her voice for a few stops on this tour.
― big firework, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 16:47 (six years ago) link
Fuck
― Ross, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 17:57 (six years ago) link
That really sucks but it seems a little premature to say your voice is permanently damaged? Before trying rest and rehab?
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 4 June 2018 18:26 (six years ago) link
IDK much about SZA's background as a singer but untrained singers (hell, even trained ones) can fuck up their vocal chords up pretty badly by singing outside their normal range or belting it out too loudly for too long. It's why Adele kept cancelling gigs a while back.
― Matt DC, Monday, 4 June 2018 19:50 (six years ago) link
This makes me so sad
― synonym toast crunch (Ross), Monday, 4 June 2018 20:24 (six years ago) link
She did not do the Friday June 1 show with Kendrick Lamar in a DC exurb outdoor shed because of voice issues I read.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 June 2018 20:28 (six years ago) link
Yeah jordan probably too early to tell if it's permanent. Time will tell I guess.
― big firework, Monday, 4 June 2018 21:19 (six years ago) link
maybe premature but I also understand that as a (relatively) new artist hearing this kind of news probably scares the shit out of you, especially if you are at all anxious (and SZA is on the record as having gone through a lot of anxiety particularly recently)
anyway I really like her and her record and hope her voice is not in fact permanently damaged
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link
i don't think she's performing tonight either. :(
― maura, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link
Hoping she can rest her voice and then go to a voice coach who can help her for the future
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 7 June 2018 12:49 (six years ago) link
Sounds like she’s doing ok: https://variety.com/2018/music/news/sza-vocal-injury-chris-brown-bet-experience-1202855879/
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Saturday, 23 June 2018 16:55 (six years ago) link
Happy to hear that
― mind how you go (Ross), Monday, 25 June 2018 10:33 (six years ago) link
Midnight EST. pic.twitter.com/CFGmf4vT55— SZA (@sza) September 4, 2020
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 4 September 2020 02:55 (four years ago) link
!!!
i guess publicly complaining about her label has gotten things moving for her again
― ufo, Friday, 4 September 2020 03:17 (four years ago) link
!!!!!!!
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Friday, 4 September 2020 03:26 (four years ago) link
"hit different" is on Spotify etc now. it's lovely.
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Friday, 4 September 2020 04:12 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJlMkMtK7-8
it's pretty good but surprisingly twisty for a lead single
― ufo, Friday, 4 September 2020 04:17 (four years ago) link
oh wow the second song (snippet?) tacked onto the video edit is amazing
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Friday, 4 September 2020 05:38 (four years ago) link
oh that's a big part of why i said it was twisty, makes more sense if it's not actually part of "hit different"
― ufo, Friday, 4 September 2020 05:43 (four years ago) link
second track is reportedly called "good days"
― ufo, Friday, 4 September 2020 05:48 (four years ago) link
I like “Hit Different” a lot, and that preview track sounds sublime. Great to hear her voice again.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 4 September 2020 08:25 (four years ago) link
more excited about that second track than "hit different" but it's all quite good so far
― dyl, Saturday, 5 September 2020 02:44 (four years ago) link
loooove both the new track and the snippet — there’s also this video on her IG that’s a snippet of a different new track:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CEtCWRYnj4C/?igshid=aijkitc0lnp0
― winters (josh), Saturday, 5 September 2020 03:25 (four years ago) link
ahhhhhh that sounds so good
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Saturday, 5 September 2020 03:58 (four years ago) link
I’ve seriously been listening to “Hit Different” on repeat for over 48 hours now — it’s so good to have her back sounding so good and so confident
― winters (josh), Sunday, 6 September 2020 14:58 (four years ago) link
"featuring ty dolla sign" are some of my least favorite words in the english language :(
― Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix), Sunday, 6 September 2020 19:48 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh64haEP9g8
here's the full "good days" at last, it's very good, but lol that jacob collier is on backing vocals
― ufo, Friday, 25 December 2020 15:50 (three years ago) link
much better than "hit different"
― dyl, Saturday, 26 December 2020 04:24 (three years ago) link
tame impala ballad vibes (not a bad thing!)
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 23:50 (three years ago) link
new song is incredible
― J0rdan S., Friday, 8 January 2021 21:31 (three years ago) link
it's so good, absurdly lush with all those woodwinds in the background
― ufo, Saturday, 9 January 2021 01:25 (three years ago) link
Good Days is lovely
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 24 January 2021 03:16 (three years ago) link
i feel like this is quietly becoming a generation-defining song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p3zZoraK9g
(the vid, like the one for "hit different," teases another forthcoming song that sounds potentially great)
― dyl, Saturday, 6 March 2021 05:10 (three years ago) link
https://t.co/Wg1IvioVR6 dumping random thoughts— SZA (@sza) August 22, 2021
three new tracks! but really what is going on with her & TDE if she's resorting to leaking stuff like this
― ufo, Sunday, 22 August 2021 22:43 (three years ago) link
seriously
― dyl, Monday, 23 August 2021 01:17 (three years ago) link
at this point i hope she can just manage to get released from her contract or something, like her relationship with TDE has been terrible since before CTRL even & seems to only be worse now
― ufo, Monday, 23 August 2021 02:59 (three years ago) link
all these songs are great smh
the way she released these is interesting in light of kendrick's announcement her twitter bio has "gone fish'n #TDE" as the location lol
― J0rdan S., Monday, 23 August 2021 04:54 (three years ago) link
i don't think kendrick has ever publicly had issues with them though, i figured he probably just wants to move to somewhere bigger now with his contract up, being a gigantic star & all, while sza was complaining about them preventing her from releasing music years before ctrl came out & has continued to blame them for her taking so long to put anything new out
new track are indeed great, "joni" is too short though
― ufo, Monday, 23 August 2021 05:52 (three years ago) link
there’s clearly something going on at tde, most of its artists haven’t released new albums in many years
but yeah, i could see kendrick’s announcement as more of an indication that he wants to be in charge and not subject to top dawg’s whims
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Monday, 23 August 2021 12:45 (three years ago) link
Joni is great, definitely want a full length version
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 23 August 2021 16:52 (three years ago) link
full length version of "joni" is apparently planned for the album, with a guest
― ufo, Wednesday, 1 September 2021 05:06 (three years ago) link
nice
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 05:11 (three years ago) link
you don't think ... ?
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 06:37 (three years ago) link
that’s right, she got graham nash
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 11:50 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mF_yKVRffI
officially put out "i hate u" as a single now (it was one of the soundcloud tracks)
hope this means album isn't too far away lol
― ufo, Friday, 3 December 2021 08:52 (two years ago) link
not a new album per se, but there is a ctrl “deluxe” version out today. not sure how new any of the songs are but i certainly haven’t heard them before!
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Thursday, 9 June 2022 15:10 (two years ago) link
Everything made in 2014-2016 /17… not new lol to be absolutely clear .— SZA (@sza) June 9, 2022
sounds like they're outtakes from the album's sessions as you'd expect
― ufo, Thursday, 9 June 2022 21:49 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9-YyROo73M
is she going to just put out one song a year until the album's out in a decade's time
this one's weird - the song's there but it feels like half the backing is missing
― ufo, Friday, 28 October 2022 04:39 (one year ago) link
that was my take as well
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 06:27 (one year ago) link
surely we can hold ourselves to a higher standard when it comes to thread revives…
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Monday, 27 November 2023 00:32 (nine months ago) link
The radio success of "Snooze" and "Kill Bill" has been one of the most surprising developments of the last couple years.
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 November 2023 12:52 (nine months ago) link
Maybe I asked on the thread already but I can't remember the answer, assuming anyone answered. Back some time around the release of her first record I saw her in a tiny club here (she was good). Then she went kind of quiet, iirc, and the next thing I know she's selling out arenas with hot ticket prices and her album is dominating whatever charts people follow. What did I miss in between? How did she go from rising star to superstar that my kids and their peers and their younger siblings all know and love? It seemed really sudden, at least from the vantage of someone that only passively knows about what's popular.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 27 November 2023 14:14 (nine months ago) link
by first record, do you mean ctrl, or z, because ctrl was a triple-platinum, massively critically acclaimed hit album and z came out nearly a decade ago, at this point
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Monday, 27 November 2023 15:13 (nine months ago) link
i assume you mean ctrl. i remember when i first became aware of her she still seemed slightly under the radar for most -- i planned to go to her concert at a theater later in the year but didn't buy a ticket then. checked again after a few months (she had started getting traction on radio) and a second date had been added and they were both sold out. the album had tremendous legs so when sos launched she was well positioned to blow up even more, hence the upgrade to arenas etc.
― dyl, Monday, 27 November 2023 15:21 (nine months ago) link
Yeah, I meant "ctrl," sorry. It was the Concord Music Hall here in December 2017, about 1000 or so capacity. The next time she played Chicago was February 2023 at a very sold out United Center.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 27 November 2023 16:16 (nine months ago) link
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Sunday, November 26, 2023 7:32 PM (yesterday)
idk learning there's an IU stats prof cosplaying as Christgau on substack is kind of what ilm is for
― rob, Monday, 27 November 2023 16:51 (nine months ago) link
lol I know him from a couple other message boards. Nice guy.
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 November 2023 17:01 (nine months ago) link
the xgau shtick is not for me, but in all sincerity, it's always nice to be reminded that people contain multitudes
― rob, Monday, 27 November 2023 17:10 (nine months ago) link
Harold Bloom never got to write The Perfidy of Influence.
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 November 2023 17:14 (nine months ago) link
hi did i miss mentions of ' saturn '? did you know that sun ra was from saturn?
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Thursday, 14 March 2024 00:01 (six months ago) link
(i know, i know. but i'll take what i can get. isn't she great?!)
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Thursday, 14 March 2024 00:04 (six months ago) link
'saturn' is completely gorgeous
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Friday, 23 August 2024 00:10 (four weeks ago) link
feel like it's more 'rings of saturn' by sebald than sun ra's saturn. the thing jordan was saying a while ago about her, that she's too real to chase the standard pop career and that he sees her kind of like crashing out, pops into my head when i hear this. it's in a major key though, and the reverie about floating off to saturn in the chorus is powerfully something, like it feels like it means a lot of things. she's my favorite pop artist working right now i think.
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Friday, 23 August 2024 00:18 (four weeks ago) link
"Saturn" seems underdiscussed here. One of my singles of the year. Maybe it's so good that there's not much to say about it.
― Blitz Primary (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 10 September 2024 02:15 (one week ago) link
it's been in constant rotation since it dropped. i like it even more now than when i initially posted. easily among the very best of the year. fitting that the only thing she drops this year would've been a highlight on sos too.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Tuesday, 10 September 2024 05:37 (one week ago) link