SZA Embraces Her Dark Side in Fiery Teaser Trailer for Delayed ‘Lana’ Extended Edition
New year, same SZA. The musician shared a fiery teaser trailer on Monday morning previewing new music from the expanded edition of Lana, the already extended edition of SOS. The new version of the record, including more music and updated mixes, was scheduled to be released on Monday, Jan. 6, but has yet to arrive.
In the meantime, the song featured in the snippet posted to SZA’s official Instagram account teases a return to the trenches of the IDGAF war the singer-songwriter battled — and won — on SOS. “Look I might really be that bitch/Might really got that niche/Got a knack for pissing bitches off/Oh, clean nights, don’t need no Smirnoff/My bra’s busting and it’s all off,” SZA spits on the record. “Drove by your funeral just to piss in the ditch, I’m not remiss/I never miss/No, no, no, no, oh no I’ll never miss/Call me Ms. Never Miss.”
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The accompanying visual finds SZA sitting in front of a blazing fire as useful for roasting marshmallows as it is for roasting exes and enemies. “Codependent, people pleasing, start to feel sleazy when my needs go unattended, got resentment/Hell yeah I’m aggressive, hell yeah I’m restless/Feel like tempered glass, still do temper tantrums,” she sings. “They’re just big as my ass/Pages long as the mass/’Cause temper’s short as your dick/I got demons, who asking?”
SZA tagged producer Jay Versace in the Instagram post. The pair previously collaborated on the SOS “Smoking on My Ex Pack” and “SOS,” which are delivered in a vein similar to the teased record. In 2022, SZA unexpectedly popped into Rolling Stone‘s interview with Versace to share praise for the push he gave her to bring a harder edge to her music. “I really, literally, I’ve never wanted to rap or make anything aggressive before Jay came into my life,” she said. “Nobody has ever gassed me like they have.”
“This is why she’s my favorite: I like the way she makes her art because people can perceive it in whichever way they want,” the producer said at the time. “When people just have to figure out their own definition of it, that’s when it’s really timeless. Because people can live their entire life creating different definitions and coming back to it. [SZA] makes things like a coloring book. You put your own colors into the lines, but she’s just creating the outline for you. There’s not a lot of people that does that. She doesn’t really explain exactly specifics — what she’s talking about or who she’s talking about. She’s just saying, I feel like people don’t treat me like this… And that’s why she’ll always go crazy. People will always love her music.”
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