SZA – SOS

[Normi]

Was Drew Barrymore ever sent to radio? Because it should! One of my favorite songs of the year and it's great to see it receiving a video

[SHOOTER]

Jun 23, 2017 11:39:38 GMT -5 Normi said:

Was Drew Barrymore ever sent to radio? Because it should! One of my favorite songs of the year and it's great to see it receiving a video

No, it wasn't. As much as I love it, I can't see Pop or Urban really supporting it.

[Ty]

Been fighting my low self-esteem issues all the time and "Supermodel" f**king tells the story of my love life.

[Live Your Life]

[Linnethia Monique]

Got the presale code for the Austin show this morning, but I'm just going to do the San Antonio one.

[T.B.F.]

That's a shame she isn't doing ACL. I need her to redeem herself in a festival setting for me.

[Linnethia Monique]

Her tour sold out in minutes all over Texas. I'm salty as all hell right now because I looked at 10:15AM and all three cities were sold out.

On another note, recently I could actually hear "Prom" being a crossover song if they were to promote it to different formats besides the usual Urban/Urban AC. Rhythmic and Pop could actually latch onto it if given a chance.

[koolthing]

Yo I was on at 10:00 and couldn't get a ticket

Queen of selling out tours

[Linnethia Monique]

The tour sold out in a matter of a couple of hours yesterday! They showed out for her and that's a good showing for her future. Punch must be going through the roof after letting her vent her frustrations.

[wavey.]

She was trolling in an interview talking bout she has a short attention span, and this might be her last album.

Bye sizzah.

[koolthing]

Jul 8, 2017 23:56:49 GMT -5 wavey. said:

She was trolling in an interview talking bout she has a short attention span, and this might be her last album.

Bye sizzah.

She's been saying that since like a year before it came out

[T.B.F.]

Finally saw her performance on BET and...well...best of luck to those who paid to see her on tour.

[Live Your Life]

I NEED THIS RIGHT NOW.

[koolthing]

Jul 9, 2017 21:45:58 GMT -5 Live Your Life said:

I NEED THIS RIGHT NOW.

Hold tight but it'll be worth it –

she just revealed she's working on an ALBUM with them.

[Live Your Life]

AllMusic has finally put their review up. They give the album 4/5 stars:

Solana Rowe's proper debut album, due to its title, invites comparisons to Janet Jackson's 1986 personal and commercial breakout. It's an individual statement, however, one distinct from even the contemporary likes of Kehlani's SweetSexySavage. Placed beside only Z, its three-year-old prelude, Ctrl is the work of a considerably less-inhibited songwriter. Rowe likewise truly fronts these frank songs that wield power as they lament lonesomeness, insecurity, and inertia. She neither projects slight wisps nor obscures herself inside swirling synthesizers, yet she oversells not a single thought. On screen, a slight shrug from her would probably devastate an expectant admirer. In the slow-motion hip-hop soul of "Doves in the Wind," featuring a hectoring verse from fellow TDE artist Kendrick Lamar, Rowe schools inapt and inept male behavior, offering intimate counsel and acerbic derision in a uniquely offhanded style. As assured as she is in this mode, she's not too proud to test a partner ("Call me on my bulls**t, lie to me and say my booty gettin' bigger even if it ain't"), express personal dissatisfaction ("All alone still, not a thing in my name"), or plainly grieve ("Do you even know I'm alive?"). The production crew here is almost completely different from the one involved on Z, with TDE regular Tyran Donaldson (aka Antydote and Scum) the lone holdover, present on seven tracks. For every overdone trap trick, there's a couple of sly wrinkles, like the thick, chiming groove in "Go Gina," where Rowe brilliantly illustrates a specific kind of fatigue ("Picking up a penny with a press-on is easier than holding you down") and the woozy, decayed synthesizer line in the Travis Scott-assisted single "Love Galore," ideal for a song about rekindling a dead-end affair. This is a marked improvement and an indication of more great work to come.

[Linnethia Monique]

I'm so in love with her soul.

[koolthing]

She was on Fallon anoche:

[Live Your Life]

[YourFaveIsAFlop]

Im obsessed with this album now. Cant believe i was sleeping on SZA

[Zinc.]

JAY-Z Once Called SZA's Career a 'Fluke'

SZA's impressive debut album, CTRL, garnered praise from music's upper echelon and has since earned the singer features on pop records like Maroon 5's "What Lovers Do" and Lorde's "Homemade Dynamite (Remix)." While many artists have taken notice of the singer's talents, SZA revealed in a new interview with BBC Radio host DJ Semtex that one of hip-hop's biggest rappers wasn't initially a fan of her music.

In the interview, Semtex asked the singer her thoughts on JAY-Z's latest album 4:44 where she admitted that she hasn't listened to the album "intently," but the few tracks she heard were "brilliant." She then recalled her first encounter with the iconic rapper.

"JAY-Z was the first person to tell me that he thought I was a fluke, to my face," the "Love Galore" singer said. "I laughed and I said, 'So do I.'"

She explained that Hov really meant no harm and later told her that she was "really good."

While she wasn't offended by his remarks, she did reveal that sometimes she thinks about why she chose to pursue music. "I question how I got into this mess, all the time, and then I question, do I want to stay in this mess all the time and then I question, do I love this mess? Or is there any other mess I’d rather be in? And it’s like, nah I guess I’ll keep this mess and pursue the rest of this mess.”

[wavey.]

http://instagr.am/p/BZkKpNKDdqz

[Harx]

She's really gonna blow up as soon as general audience learns how to pronounce her name

[Live Your Life]

[Heart Shaped Box]

I just heard the radio DJ pronounce her name:

“Sci-za” like trying to say scissors in Ebonics.

I never pronounced it that way lol

[gbaby]

Jul 21, 2017 9:29:14 GMT -5 koolthing said:

She was on Fallon anoche:

yaaaas

[Live Your Life]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BaG6HsLjVfQ

https://www.instagram.com/p/BaG9Tc8DITa

[wavey.]

Loving this shine for an R&B star in this climate!!

[Heart Shaped Box]

Really happy for her success!

[Ling-Ling]

I am so happy for her success (especially with this album, because to me it's still so unexpected). She has been so consistent on the charts but I still want her to break through in a major way.

I played the ever loving hell out of this album over the summer and I kind of put it away because I just couldn't anymore. I went to a party this weekend and "Drew Barrymore" came up in the mix and it gave me all the feels again. Like I had never heard it before. They need to send it to Pop because it's just the perfect winter song.

[dbhmr]

Kept meaning to post but this album is everything. Probably my second favorite of the year, just barely behind Lana.