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SOS
Studio album by
SZA
ReleasedDecember 9, 2022
Recorded2020–2022
Genre
Length67:51
Label
Producer
SZA chronology
Ctrl
(2017) 		SOS
(2022)
Singles from SOS
  1. "Good Days"
    Released: December 25, 2020
  2. "I Hate U"
    Released: December 3, 2021
  3. "Shirt"
    Released: October 28, 2022
  4. "Nobody Gets Me"
    Released: January 6, 2023
  5. "Kill Bill"
    Released: January 10, 2023

SOS is the second studio album by American singer SZA. It was released through Top Dawg Entertainment and RCA Records on December 9, 2022.[1] The album features guest appearances from Don Toliver, Phoebe Bridgers, Travis Scott, and the late Ol' Dirty Bastard.[2] SZA worked with a variety of record producers and songwriters such as Babyface, Jeff Bhasker, Benny Blanco, Rodney Jerkins, DJ Dahi, Gabriel Hardeman, Ant Clemons, Lizzo and Björk.[3] It serves as the follow-up to SZA's previous album, Ctrl (2017).[4]

The album was preceded by three singles—"Good Days", "I Hate U", and "Shirt". The former two singles, as well as the track "Kill Bill" and the fourth single "Nobody Gets Me", peaked within the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100. Upon its release, SOS received widespread critical acclaim for its eclectic sound and SZA's vocal delivery, with several media publications ranking it as one of the best albums of 2022. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with 318,000 units, breaking the record for the largest streaming week for an R&B album. It marked SZA's first number-one album in the United States and spent three weeks atop the chart.[5]

Background and recording

SZA released her debut studio album, Ctrl, in 2017. Primarily an R&B album that deals with themes like heartbreak, Ctrl was widely acclaimed by critics for its vocal performances and eclectic musical style, as well as the relatability, emotional impact, and confessional nature of its songwriting. The album brought SZA to mainstream fame, and critics credit it with establishing her status as a major figure in contemporary pop and R&B music and pushing the boundaries of the R&B genre.[note 1]

SZA alluded to potentially releasing her second album as early as August 2019 during an interview with DJ Kerwin Frost.[13][14] Revealing planned collaborations with the likes of Justin Timberlake, Jack Antonoff, Brockhampton, and Post Malone,[15] she said that the release date was "soon as fuck" and she might "start dropping loosies",[16] though there was no explicit date announced.[17] Four months prior, Punch, CEO of SZA's record label Top Dawg Entertainment, teased that he had begun overseeing ideas for the project.[16][18] During the interview, SZA commented on the creative process behind the album and stated it would be as candid and personal as Ctrl: "This next album is even more of me being less afraid of who am I when I have no choice? When I'm not out trying to curate myself and contain."[19]

In January 2020, SZA posted a status update about the album's completion online.[20][21] When asked by a fan on Twitter whether new music was coming soon, she replied that she and Punch had been discussing a potential release date scheduled for 2020 and she felt anxious about the build-up to that day.[22] The next month, an interview between her and Rolling Stone was published, in which she announced recent collaborations with American record producer Timbaland, as well as Australian singer-songwriter Sia with whom she wrote three songs.[23] The interview also mentioned the status of the album's release date; SZA said "music is coming out for sure", but the caveat was the album itself was unlikely to be released within the year.[24]

After fans grew impatient with the release delays, SZA responded by venting her frustrations on Twitter in August 2020. Alleging that the label was the reason for the postponement, she affirmed one fan's suspicion that she had been having hostile interactions with Top Dawg, and when someone showed her a post from Punch saying that the album would be released soon, SZA replied with "this is all he says to me as well. Welcome to my fucking life."[25][26] In response, fans created the Twitter hashtag #FreeSZA in support of her struggles, and the trend went viral.[27] However, she later retracted her claims by deleting the posts and said "don't nobody need to free me. Lmao I'm not being held hostage n neither is my music!! Sometimes u gotta be patient… sometimes no is a blessing… I trust the ppl around me."[28][29] Vulture and Variety noted that Ctrl also suffered a similar problem with its release date; SZA quarrelled with Top Dawg executives over its two-year delay and threatened to quit music because of it.[30][31]

When SZA collaborated with Cosmopolitan for their February 2021 issue, she talked about the emotions she expected to feel while making the album. She told the magazine, "this album is going to be the shit that made me feel something in my...here and in here", pointing to her heart and gut.[32] From April to May 2022, SZA told media outlets that she had recently finished the album in Hawaii, describing it as her most relatable or "unisex" body of work she had made to date.[33] During the Met Gala and an interview with Complex, SZA claimed that the album was ready for release during summertime in the United States ("this summer, it will be a SZA summer"), but there was no urgent deadline for the release.[34][35]

The release date continued to be delayed, and SZA once more argued that Top Dawg and RCA were responsible for it;[36] the album would, contractually, be her last to be released through the labels.[37] In October, she said that she had written around 100 songs for the album and added that the album could be released "any day now".[38] During a Billboard cover story published in November, SZA revealed the title of her second studio album was SOS, scheduled for release sometime next month. She expressed her frustration with complying with music industry standards on promoting music, saying she had been stressed with meeting her deadlines.[39] On December 3, 2022, she appeared on Saturday Night Live and announced it would be released on December 9. Two days later, she posted the track list on Twitter.[40]

Composition

S.O.S is primarily an R&B album with influences from hip hop and pop.[41][42] The album samples sound references from soul, gospel, jazz and melodic rap.[43][44] The sound of the album was described as "a varied palette",[45] combining "surf rock" and "grunge" elements, alongside "her beloved lo-fi beats".[46] In Complex, she described the album's sound: "I have no idea what it sounds like to anybody else. I really don't know. It's so bizarre. It's weird that I can't put my finger on it. It's a little bit of everything." She added that some parts of the song had an "aggressive" sound whereas others were soft or balladic.[47] During the Rolling Stone interview, she and Punch spoke in length about the album's composition. The inspiration in question was eclectic, drawing from jazz, alternative rock, "traditional" R&B, country, and hip hop. About the wide range of genres incorporated into the album, SZA said she did not care if her production choices made the album sound incohesive, because to her, "if you sound like you, your shit’s going to be cohesive. Period." Punch commented: "It's a new chapter. She's not scared to try certain things now."[24]

Artwork

The album artwork was inspired by a paparazzi photo of Diana, Princess of Wales.

On November 30, 2022, SZA posted the album cover on Instagram. She can be seen wearing a St. Louis Blues hockey jersey on the album cover.[48] The cover is a reference to a 1997 photo of Diana, Princess of Wales, in a similar pose aboard a yacht during a trip in Portofino, Italy, surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea.[49]

SZA reported on the decision to associate the cover and album with Princess Diana's photo:[50]

- Originally I was supposed to be on top of, like, a shipping barge," SZA said. "But in the references that I pulled for that, I pulled the Diana reference because I just loved how isolated she felt and that was what I wanted to convey the most. And then at the last minute, we, like, didn’t get clearance to get the shipping barges that we wanted and we were like, ‘We’re gonna build the diving board instead. We’re still gonna try it.’ We didn’t nix the boat altogether and we tried it and it turned out cool and I wasn’t sure it was going to be really cool until, like, right now. -

Promotion

SZA sporadically released music over a two-plus year period as she continued to perfect her album and push back on release dates. Releasing music videos for these singles, the second half of the video teasers for her next single would play at the end.[51] At the end of a teaser video titled "PSA" released on her 33rd birthday, a message written in Morse code can be seen, which after being translated spells out "S.O.S.".[52] In an interview with Billboard released on November 16, 2022, SZA confirmed the theories about the album title and release date in December 2022.[51] She further admitted to feeling "stressed" about meeting the release deadline.[45][53]

SZA promoted the album on the December 3, 2022, episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live as a musical guest.[54] She performed live the single "Shirt" and the at-the-time unreleased track "Blind", which she previously teased. On December 5, she posted a snippet of a song titled "Nobody Gets Me".[55] A few hours later, she posted the tracklist of the album on her Twitter.[56] "Kill Bill" and "Nobody Gets Me" will be promoted to US contemporary hit radio on January 10, 2023.[57]

Tour

SOS Tour
Tour by SZA
File:SOS Tour.jpg
Associated albumSOS
Start dateFebruary 21, 2023
End dateMarch 23, 2023
No. of shows19
SZA concert chronology

On December 13, 2022, SZA announced the SOS Tour, a 19-date North American concert tour and her first arena tour, in support of the album, beginning February 21, 2023 at Value City Arena in Columbus, and concluding March 23 at Kia Forum in Inglewood.[58] Omar Apollo was announced as the opening act.

Shows

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, and opening act
Date City Country Venue Opening act
North America[59]
February 21, 2023 Columbus United States Value City Arena Omar Apollo
February 22, 2023 Chicago United Center
February 24, 2023 Detroit Little Caesars Arena
February 25, 2023 Toronto Canada Scotiabank Arena
February 27, 2023 Washington, D.C. United States Capital One Arena
February 28, 2023 Boston TD Garden
March 2, 2023 Philadelphia Wells Fargo Center
March 4, 2023 New York City Madison Square Garden
March 5, 2023
March 7, 2023 Atlanta State Farm Arena
March 9, 2023 Austin Moody Center
March 10, 2023 Dallas American Airlines Center
March 13, 2023 San Diego Viejas Arena
March 14, 2023 Oakland Oakland Arena
March 16, 2023 Seattle Climate Pledge Arena
March 18, 2023 Portland Moda Center
March 19, 2023 Vancouver Canada Rogers Arena
March 22, 2023 Inglewood United States Kia Forum
March 23, 2023

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?8.2/10[60]
Metacritic90/100[61]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[62]
The Daily Telegraph[10]
The Guardian[63]
The Line of Best Fit8/10[8]
NME[9]
Pitchfork8.7/10[64]
Rolling Stone[65]

SOS has received widespread critical acclaim upon its release.[66] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 based on reviews from critics, the album received a score of 90 out of 100, based on 20 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[61]

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd of Pitchfork named the album "Best New Music", stressing how it "solidifies her position as a generational talent, an artist who translates her innermost feelings into indelible moments".[64] Alexis Petridis of The Guardian wrote that the results of the album "are hugely eclectic", finding it "simultaneously impressive and a little exhausting". Petridis found that the songs "shine harder individually than taken in toto, where the sheer profusion causes them to merge into one, blended by a mood of stoned melancholy", with a final product of a "unwieldy" album, where SZA sounds as "a fabulous vocalist, powerful but unshowy, capable of shifting seamlessly into melodic rap".[63]

NME's writer Rhian Daly reported that "under SZA’s command it feels cohesive, organic and like every skip into a new genre is completely justified for each track", pointing out that SOS is "a phenomenal record that barely puts a foot wrong and raises the bar even higher than she set it before".[9] Cady Siregar by Consequence defined the album "an assured, ambitious, expansive, and genre-defying journey into the very depths of heartbreak and the many shades it comes in". The journalist emphasized that in Ctrl there is no predefined musical genre, because "the theme lies in her vocal prowess, the daringness of her vision, and her lyrical frankness".[12]

Reviewing the album for AllMusic, Andy Kellman compared it favourably to SZA's previous album; "Hour-plus length and stylistic variety likewise signal that SOS could be the overreaching kind of highly anticipated follow-up. Still, it's an advancement from Ctrl in every respect apart from cohesion."[62] Writing for Rolling Stone, Will Dukes also commented on the album's runtime; "SOS is very long – 23 tracks, well over an hour. It suggests someone continually adding to and augmenting a project, or perhaps throwing everything they’ve got at it, fuelled by the feeling that they might not do this again. The results are hugely eclectic."[65]

Accolades

By the time SOS was released, many publications had already released their respective year-end best-of album lists. Nonetheless, some publications who released later lists included SOS, such as BrooklynVegan, whose writer Andrew Sacher wrote:[67]

SZA finally returns after five years to remind us that nobody does it like her. Even within the ever-crowded field of R&B, her distinctly hoarse yet soaring voice and her intimate, conversational lyrical style can be spotted from a mile away. The long road to SOS was paved with instant-classic singles ("Good Days," "I Hate U," "Shirt"), and throughout the album's remaining 20 songs, she offers up even more of the R&B magic that sparked those songs, and finds time to veer off into folk, rap, alternative rock, and other styles of music, all in a uniquely-SZA way. Whether she's fantasizing about killing her ex and his new girlfriend, telling the world about her new therapist, candidly expressing sexual frustration, or dropping pregnancy puns in boastful punchlines, SZA conveys a wide scope of raw, real human emotion, within a collection of songs that already feels on par with her game-changing debut.

SOS on year-end lists
Publication List Rank Ref.
BPM BPM's Top 50 Albums of 2022
22
[68]
BrooklynVegan The 50 Best Albums of 2022
15
[67]
Consequence Top 50 Albums of 2022
11
[69]
Coup De Main Magazine The Best Albums of 2022
10
[70]
Variety The Best Albums of 2022
10
[71]
The Hollywood Reporter The 10 Best Albums of 2022
2
[72]

Commercial performance

SOS debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, with 318,000 equivalent album units sold. The album earned 404.58 million on-demand official streams in its first week, breaking record for the biggest streaming week ever for an R&B album, and becoming the second-largest streaming week for an album by a female artist.[73] Within days the album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Elsewhere, SOS entered within the top 5 of 10 countries: it debuted atop charts in Canada, Netherlands, and New Zealand; at number 2 in Australia, the UK, and Ireland; at number 3 in Norway and Denmark; and number 4 in Sweden and Switzerland.[74]

Track listing

SOS track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."SOS"
Jay Versace1:57
2."Kill Bill"
  • Rowe
  • Carter Lang
  • Bisel
2:33
3."Seek & Destroy"
  • Rowe
  • Bisel
  • Lang
  • Tyran Donaldson
  • Cody Fayne
  • Bisel
  • Lang
  • Scum
  • ThankGod4Cody
3:23
4."Low"
  • Rowe
  • Bisel
  • Alessandro Buccellati
  • Joseph Pincus
  • Jocelyn Donald
  • Bisel
  • Buccellati
  • Aire Atlantica
3:01
5."Love Language"
  • Yakob
  • Lang
  • ThankGod4Cody
  • Bisel[v]
3:03
6."Blind"
  • Rowe
  • Lang
  • William Miller
  • Margaux Whitney
  • Bisel
  • Lang
  • Miller
  • Yuli
2:30
7."Used" (featuring Don Toliver)
2:26
8."Snooze"
3:21
9."Notice Me"
  • Halm
  • Uzowuru
  • Bisel
  • Lang
  • ThankGod4Cody
2:40
10."Gone Girl"
  • Bhasker
  • Haynie
  • Bisel
  • Lang
  • ThankGod4Cody
4:04
11."Smoking on My Ex Pack"
Jay Versace1:23
12."Ghost in the Machine" (featuring Phoebe Bridgers)
3:38
13."F2F"
  • Bisel
  • Lang
3:05
14."Nobody Gets Me"
3:00
15."Conceited"
  • Rowe
  • Fayne
  • Bisel
ThankGod4Cody2:31
16."Special"
2:38
17."Too Late"
2:44
18."Far"
  • Rowe
  • Bisel
  • Lang
  • Carlos Muñoz
  • Eliot Dubock
  • Donaldson
  • Bisel
  • Lang
  • Los Hendrix
  • Beat Butcha
  • Scum
3:00
19."Shirt"
3:01
20."Open Arms" (featuring Travis Scott)
  • Halm
  • Uzowuru
  • Bisel
3:59
21."I Hate U"
  • Rowe
  • Bisel
  • Lang
  • Fayne
  • Dylan Patrice
  • Bisel
  • Lang
  • ThankGod4Cody
  • Sir Dylan
2:54
22."Good Days"
  • Lang
  • Los Hendrix
  • Nascent
  • Bisel[v]
4:39
23."Forgiveless" (featuring Ol' Dirty Bastard)
Darkchild2:21
Total length:67:51

Notes

  • ^[a] signifies an additional producer.
  • ^[m] signifies a miscellaneous producer.
  • ^[v] signifies a vocal producer.
  • "Ghost in the Machine" and "Far" feature additional vocals by Sadhguru.
  • "Low" features additional vocals by Travis Scott.

Sample credits

Personnel

Musicians

  • SZA – lead vocals (all tracks), background vocals (tracks 14, 16, 20)
  • Carter Lang – bass (2, 17), choir (2, 12), guitar (2, 13), keyboards (3, 6, 12, 13, 17), drums (12, 13), piano (12)
  • Rob Bisel – bass (2, 17), choir (2, 12), guitar (2, 13), keyboards (3, 4, 6, 12, 13, 17), vocals (4), acoustic guitar (6); drums, piano (12); background vocals (14, 16, 20)
  • ThankGod4Cody – drums (3, 17), keyboards (3), choir (10)
  • Scum – keyboards (3)
  • Alessandro Buccellati – accordion, keyboards (4)
  • Travis Scott – background vocals (4)
  • Aire Atlantica – drums (4)
  • Will Miller – keyboards (6)
  • Yuli – viola (6)
  • Granny – vocals (7, 20)
  • Alexandria Arowora – choir (10)
  • Anthony Johnson – choir (10)
  • Charles Harmon – choir (10)
  • Chelsea Miller – choir (10)
  • Dylan Neustadter – choir (10)
  • Erik Brooks – choir (10)
  • Imani Carolyn – choir (10)
  • Jewchelle Brown – choir (10)
  • Joslynn James – choir (10)
  • Roman Collins – choir (10)
  • Storm Chapman – choir (10)
  • Syd Tagle – choir (10)
  • Stix – drums (10)
  • Matt Cohn – drums (12)
  • Sadhguru – vocals (12, 18)
  • Lizzo – background vocals (13)
  • Sammy Witte – guitar (17)
  • Still Woozy – guitar (17)
  • Teo Halm – drums, guitar, keyboards (20)
  • Jacob Collier – background vocals (22)

Technical

  • Dale Becker – mastering (1–20, 22, 23)
  • Rob Bisel – mixing (1, 2, 6, 8, 12, 19–21), engineering (all tracks), mastering (21), vocal engineering (3, 17)
  • Shawn Everett – mixing (1, 22), mastering (22)
  • Jaycen Joshua – mixing (3, 17, 23)
  • Derek "206derek" Anderson – mixing, engineering (4, 20)
  • Jon Castelli – mixing (4, 7, 11, 15)
  • Manny Marroquin – mixing (5, 18)
  • Dana Nielsen – mixing (9, 10, 13)
  • Serban Ghenea – mixing (14, 16)
  • Carson Graham – engineering (1, 5, 6, 8, 17, 18)
  • Josh Deguzman – engineering (4, 7, 11, 15)
  • Hector Castro – engineering (9, 15, 19, 21)
  • Dylan Neustadter – engineering (10, 11, 16)
  • Bryce Bordone – engineering (14)
  • Derek Keota – engineering (19, 23)
  • Micah Petit – engineering (19, 23)
  • Will Maclellan – vocal engineering (12)
  • Katie Harvey – engineering assistance (1–20, 22, 23)
  • Noah McCorkle – engineering assistance (1–20, 22, 23)
  • Robert N. Johnson – engineering assistance (2, 4–6, 9, 12–15, 17–21)
  • Syd Tagle – engineering assistance (2, 8, 10–12, 15–17)
  • Trey Pearce – engineering assistance (2, 9, 17)
  • Hayden Duncan – engineering assistance (3, 10, 12, 15, 16)
  • DJ Riggins – engineering assistance (3, 17, 23)
  • Jacob Richards – engineering assistance (3, 17, 23)
  • Mike Seaberg – engineering assistance (3, 17, 23)
  • Rachel Blum – engineering assistance (3, 17, 23)
  • Ben Sedano – engineering assistance (5, 7, 19)
  • Anthony Vilchis – engineering assistance (5, 18)
  • Trey Station – engineering assistance (5, 18)
  • Zach Pereyra – engineering assistance (5, 18)
  • Jon Sher – engineering assistance (5)
  • Kaushlesh Purohit – engineering assistance (7)
  • Noah Hashimoto – engineering assistance (7, 13)
  • Jonathan Lopez – engineering assistance (8, 14)
  • Patrick Gardner – engineering assistance (14)
  • Austin Christy – engineering assistance (15)
  • Jeremy Dilli – engineering assistance (16, 18)
  • Shelby Epstine – engineering assistance (20)

Charts

Chart performance for SOS
Chart (2022-2023) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[75] 2
Australian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA)[76] 1
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[77] 14
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[78] 7
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[79] 32
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[80] 1
Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI)[81] 14
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[82] 2
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[83] 1
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[84] 10
French Albums (SNEP)[85] 31
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[86] 33
Irish Albums (OCC)[87] 2
Italian Albums (FIMI)[88] 34
Lithuanian Albums (AGATA)[89] 3
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[90] 1
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[91] 3
Slovak Albums (ČNS IFPI)[92] 15
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[93] 22
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[94] 4
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[95] 4
UK Albums (OCC)[96] 2
UK R&B Albums (OCC)[97] 24
US Billboard 200[98] 1
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[99] 1

Certifications

Certifications for SOS
Region Certification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[100] Gold 500,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Release history and formats for SOS
Region Date Format Label
Various December 9, 2022

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Cited to multiple sources:
    • Vulture: "Raw, candid writing isn't new for SZA; it's what made the previous album, Ctrl, such a breakout and one of the high marks of the confessional R&B; of the past decade."[6]
    • The Recording Academy: "The release of her critically acclaimed debut album Ctrl in 2017 solidified the artist not only as an R&B mainstay, but soundtracked the heartbreaks and growing pains of millions of young people. With her eloquent vocals and layered storytelling abilities, listeners felt every word like it was their own."[7]
    • The Line of Best Fit: "her debut Ctrl has ascended to classic status, going down as one of the decade's best and cementing SZA's voice at the forefront of contemporary R&B, and of pop."[8]
    • NME: Ctrl "ushered in a new era for R&B, one where the genre's boundaries shifted, bringing new levels of inventiveness into a classic sound and fusing it with indie, alternative, trap and more [...] SZA herself spent the aftermath of Ctrl trying to grapple with her new stardom and the huge impact that had on her life."[9]
    • The Daily Telegraph: "Ctrl, the triple-platinum, four-time Grammy nominated debut that propelled SZA to popstar status"[10]
    • The New Yorker: "Ctrl opened a portal—one that represented not just a major leap for the artist but a breakthrough for the genre itself. Her alternative slow jams pushed her voice to the fore and laid bare all the quirks of her dating life, establishing her as a distinguished millennial anecdotalist in the process."[11]
    • Consequence: In Ctrl, "SZA's personal style of lyricism has always read like an endless diary entry, and the transcendent nature of her genre-shifting abilities helped revolutionize modern R&B and pop."[12]

References

  1. ^ Panaligan, EJ (November 16, 2022). "SZA Announces New Album 'S.O.S.' Slated for December Release". Variety. Retrieved November 17, 2022.
  2. ^ Panaligan, E. J. (December 5, 2022). "SZA Reveals 'SOS' Track List, With Phoebe Bridgers, Travis Scott, Don Toliver and Ol' Dirty Bastard Features". Variety. Retrieved December 10, 2022.
  3. ^ Guy, Zoe (December 9, 2022). "Everything SZA References on SOS (Including Herself)". Vulture. Retrieved December 10, 2022.
  4. ^ Paul, Larisha (December 5, 2022). "SZA Taps Phoebe Bridgers, Travis Scott for S.O.S Album". Rolling Stone. Retrieved December 15, 2022.
  5. ^ "SZA Scores First No. 1 Album With SOS". Pitchfork. December 19, 2022. Retrieved December 20, 2022.
  6. ^ Curto, Justin (December 9, 2022). "SZA Finally Unleashed Her Inner Rock Star". Vulture. Archived from the original on December 21, 2022. Retrieved December 15, 2022.
  7. ^ Mitchell, Ashlee (December 13, 2022). "5 Takeaways From SZA's New Album SOS". The Recording Academy. Archived from the original on December 30, 2022. Retrieved December 15, 2022.
  8. ^ a b Taylor, Ims (December 9, 2022). "SZA Hits the Heights on the Dense but Masterful SOS". The Line of Best Fit. Retrieved January 2, 2023.
  9. ^ a b c Daly, Rhian (December 9, 2022). "SZA – SOS Review: A Comeback Album Well Worth the Wait". NME. Archived from the original on December 27, 2022. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
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  14. ^ "SZA is Dropping a New Album This Year but when is Beyond Her 'CTRL'". MTV.
  15. ^ "SZA Confirms New Album Is Coming 'Soon as F-ck'". Billboard.
  16. ^ a b "SZA Says 'Sandy Sephora' Called Security on Her: 'Can a B*TCH Cop Her Fenty in Peace'". Complex Networks.
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