SZA may finally be ready to unleash a pair of projects she’s been teasing for over a year, according to a new interview. Going back to late 2023, when SZA appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone , the singer has mentioned both a deluxe edition to her 2022 LP SOS as well as a new album titled Lana , with SZA even posting cover art for the projects back in December 2023. Over a year later, however, neither project has arrived.
That could change in the coming months as British Vogue , which interviewed SZA for its latest issue, says that both the SOS deluxe edition and Lana are expected out this autumn (which, it should be noted, is only a handful of more weeks long.) The magazine also noted an unreleased song titled “PSA,” which is allegedly bound for Lana . “I think I am making music from a more beautiful place.
From a more possible place versus a more angsty place,” SZA told British Vogue of Lana . “I’m not identifying with my brokenness. It’s not my identity.
It’s shit that happened to me. Yeah, I experienced cruelty. I have to put it down at some point.
Piece by piece, my music is shifting because of that, the lighter I get.” At one point, the deluxe edition of SOS was going to be called Lana , but following a string of “throwaways and leaks” that appeared on the internet, SZA revealed in March 2024 that she’d instead split them into two separate entities . “Being that this is material from Lana this prompted me to make a decision,” SZA said fol.