SZA has today (March 12) announced details of a huge Dublin show – check out the full details below. After her tour dates in Australia and New Zealand this April, SZA will bring her S.O.S.
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Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer SZA has long been known to make fans play the waiting game, which is why the release of “Saturn,” the single that she debuted in a Mastercard commercial during the Grammy Awards, is a welcome if not unexpected surprise. The singer-songwriter, who’s famously spoken about her perfectionism in creating music, has been careful to release new projects and singles throughout her career.
She staged a five-year gap between her 2017 debut album “Ctrl” and its follow-up “SOS,” which inevitably became a blockbuster release that broke chart records and earned her three Grammys at the ceremony earlier this month. So when the 34-year-old announced “Lana,” fans weren’t sure what to think. She’d previously spoken to Variety about how the record would take shape, arriving as either a deluxe edition of “SOS” or its own standalone project.
In August, she said that “Lana” would be “a whole new project,” consisting of outtakes and leftovers from “SOS.” And just a month later, she performed a free concert in Brooklyn where she announced the album as a standalone featuring seven to 10 songs, and that it would arrive in the fall. At that same show, she performed three unreleased songs referred to fans as “Boy From South Detroit,” “DTM” (or “Diamond Boy”) and “Saturn.” Then, of course, in December, she teased a series of photos that could potentially serve as album covers for the project, signaling what many interpreted as its imminent arrival. But, months later and “Lana” is yet to arrive.
SZA has today (March 12) announced details of a huge Dublin show – check out the full details below. After her tour dates in Australia and New Zealand this April, SZA will bring her S.O.S.
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SZA has shared a new single called ‘Saturn’ – you can listen to it below.The song was first premiered as part of a Mastercard advert during the 2024 Grammys where the singer-songwriter won three awards: Best Progressive R&B Album (‘SOS’), Best R&B Song (‘Snooze’) and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance (‘Ghost In The Machine’ feat. Phoebe Bridgers).“Stuck in this paradigm/ Don’t believe in paradise/ This must be what Hell is like/ There’s got to be more, got to be more,” SZA sings over a twinkly instrumental.