SZA confirms new album will release “before the year is over”

SZA confirms new album will release “before the year is over”

SZA has revealed that her new album will be released “before the year is over” – find out more below.

SZA – who has been teasing her supposed next record ‘Lana’ since 2023 – recently appeared on streamer Kai Cenat’s livestream alongside Lizzo, where she was asked for an update on new music.

She said that there’s “a whole new project” that people have yet to hear, and that it’ll be out “before the year is over”. The tease elicited major reactions from Lizzo and Kai Cenat, who began screaming in surprise.

NEW SZA PROJECT BEFORE THE YEAR’S OVER😭🖤 pic.twitter.com/OvrRdpz1wR

— ✧✶ ★・ˎˊ˗ (@CELESTlALY) November 24, 2024

This isn’t the first time SZA has said that new music will drop before 2025. Last week (November 15), it was reported that SZA’s next project will arrive in autumn this year, which will conclude right before Christmas.

It comes after SZA recently confirmed that she’s taking a break from performing live “for a while”. “Every day I grapple with, ‘Am I done with music?’” she said. “Maybe I’m just not meant to be famous – I’m crashing and burning and behaving erratically. It’s not for me because I have so much anxiety.

“But why would God put me in this position if I wasn’t supposed to be doing this? So I just keep trying to rise to the occasion. But I’m also just like, ‘Please, the occasion is beating my ass.’”

SZA performing on the Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival. CREDIT: Samir Hussein/WireImage/Getty Images

Touching on creating new music for ‘Lana’, she said it came from a “more beautiful place” than previous efforts. “From a more possible place versus a more angsty place. 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.”

In our review of the singer’s Glastonbury 2024 headline set, NME wrote in a four-star review: “As disjointed as this show occasionally is, though, it’s hypnotic and potent. The turnout is noticeably small for a headliner, but the extra space on the ground allows young women to share smiles of recognition and understanding with strangers while singing along to songs centred on overcoming toxic romances and self-esteem battles.”

Most recently SZA appeared on Kendrick Lamar’s surprise album ‘GNX’ – she had hinted at the record more than a month ago.

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