SZA Delays 'Lana' Release
info@hypebae.com (Hypebae) Fri, 20 Dec 2024 Hypebae
It's official, SZA is coming through on her promise of Lana, the album... kind of.
SZA's fans are known for accusing their fav of lying -- we know, weird. So when 2024 almost wrapped without her promise of Lana, an album she teased in June, they were not letting the moment slide. "Watch her never drop it," one user tweeted. Another said, "We don’t believe her mind you..."
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To the surprise of many, the album's release date came... and the album was yet to be released. According to the "Kill Bill" singer, there was an engineering delay. "FULL DELUXE OUT TOMORROW AM. On the 20th! Just needed a few more hours for new mixes to ingest evenly across all platforms.. (mixes are important)," she wrote on her Instagram story December 20th. To hold fans over, the full "Drive" music video featuring Ben Stiller is now available.
The December 20 release date was confirmed earlier that week by an Instagram reel that teased the album's first single, "Drive." The clip features none other than actor Ben Stiller, who's singing along to the lyrics. Hilariously, SZA shared that Severance Season 2 is on the way, too. Fans immediately begged for lyrics while others encouraged them to read Stiller's lips.
On December 18, she teased the album artwork, featuring her... as a bug. Die hard fans may remember the plethora of cover art mock-ups she dropped early 2024. Surprisingly, none of those made the final cut. The news launches as fans await her highly discussed Grand National tour with Kendrick Lamar.
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The album is set to launch exactly two years after the release of S.O.S., which dominated the charts and became the first "R&B album by a woman to hit double digits since Mariah Carey’s self-titled debut in 1991." It'll feature 10 tracks and won't replicate the essence of her fans' favorite album, Ctrl.
At the time she said, "I know people wanted [Ctrl’s] "Broken Clocks," "Love Galore" and all that other sh-t again, but I departed from that by choice... Not because I couldn’t do that again; it was just because I wanted to grow. I wanted to do something completely different."
Stay tuned as we await the album.
In other news, Megan thee Stallion confirms Megan: Act III will drop in 2025.
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