Last year was quite the break out for SZA. Not only did her CTRL album see the light of day after a two-year delay, but she received critical acclaim for the release. From GRAMMY nominations, to being heralded as one of the best females in the game right now. Her singles went platinum and got mad radio play.
In a cover story with The FADER, the TDE princess talks about her album, if she’s got anything on the way and even reveals she didn’t fuck with some of the tracks on there. Some of the tracks that ended up being very well received and eventually went platinum (see: “Love Galore,” which Donald Glover had to ask if she liked even after its success).
On CTRL:
“I just made a gang of songs over the course of four years. Heard ‘em all together and I was like, ‘Huh, alright.’ I didn’t even fuck with my own album, so I was so confused and almost, like, angry that everyone fucked with it so much,” she says. “It meant everything I felt about myself was wrong. And it was just like, If that’s not the truth, then what is the truth?
On “The Weekend” video criticism
“I was upset at first, cause I was like, Ugh this is my character. How can people think this about me?” But she quickly got over it. It helped, again, that her expectations weren’t particularly high. “I cared so little about that song,” she says. “I made that song in two seconds. That was like a throwaway, and then it was like, What about that ‘Weekend’ thing?”
She also talked about her dynamic being part of Top Dawg Entertainment as the only female and her mentality right now after everything.
Read the full story over at The FADER.
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