SZA says she’s not in a rush to release second album: “I don’t have any deadlines”
nme.comSZA has opened up about the progress of her long-awaited second album, but made it clear that she’s in no rush to release it.“I don’t even know what this album is about and what it sounds like,” the singer said during a recent interview with Complex. “Which is why I had to go to the mode of what feels good to my brain and to my energy and the songs that I think are hot, I just have to go with them.”SZA went on to say that she has “no idea” what the follow-up to 2017’s ‘Ctrl’ “sounds like to anybody else”, explaining that it was hard to pinpoint an exact sonic direction. “It’s a little bit of everything,” she said. “It’s a little aggressive.
Some parts are incredibly soft. Some of them are ballads. I don’t know. It’s all over the place. It’s just where my heart is.”The singer also discussed not feeling pressure to release the album anytime soon.
In recent years, she’s been relentlessly queried about the follow-up to ‘Ctrl’ and when it will arrive. In April, she stoked fan excitement by saying a new album was coming “very much soon”, adding that she had “just recently finished it up in Hawaii”.
The following month, while attending the Met Gala, she said the album was “ready to go” and earmarked a summer release date.In the new Complex piece, SZA said she lives in her “ideal situation” when it comes to a timeframe for putting out album two.
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