SZA is signaling for help from the wrong lover on her latest LP, SOS. On the 23-track project, she’s hoping a man that she knows she doesn’t need can keep her from drowning in despair. When she’s not scoffing at her ex who found a mini SZA to lick his wounds, she’s confronting those who thought she wouldn’t be back to reclaim her crown after CTRL.
SZA’s heart is in crisis. Self-love is no where in her vocabulary and causes her to seek validation from men. She feels “free” after sabotaging her relationship in “Seek and Destroy,” but then feels lost without the codependence. She needs to be needed. Worried about trust and abandonment, her self-fulfilling prophecy leaves her where she hates to be: alone with her own thoughts.
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tanay hudson, the journalist & therapist 