SZA Says Two Projects Coming, Including Her New Album 'Lana'

SZA is back.

After taking over the music scene with her record-breaking second album, danger signalin December 2022, the 35-year-old star has kept a relatively low profile ever since. In a new one British Vogue interview, she's ready to return to the music scene, revealing that she has not one, but two releases up her sleeves.

According to the publication, both the deluxe version of danger signal and her third studio album, Woolit's on its way. “I think I make music from a more beautiful place. From a more likely place versus an angrier place,” he explained. “I don't identify with my brokenness. It's not my identity. It's shit that happened to me. Yes, I experienced cruelty. I have to put it down at some point. Piece by piece, my music changes because of that, the lighter I get.”

Elsewhere in the story, her TDE label mate Kendrick Lamar praised her creative openness. “I recognize a more expressive SZA. Shy — that's completely out the window — to an extent, at least,” he said. “She has the answers to some of the things she's been wondering about, and she's willing to say it all in the most disturbing yet beautiful compositions this generation has ever heard.”

After its release, danger signal debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart with 318,000 equivalent album units – the third-highest debut week of 2022 – and broke the record for the most streamed week for an R&B album by a female, with 404.6 million official on-demand streams for her songs album, according to Luminate. It spent a total of 10 weeks at the top of the chart, becoming the first female R&B album to hit double figures since Mariah Carey's self-titled debut spent 11 weeks at No. 1 in 1991.

The album's long-running hit single, “Kill Bill”, dominated the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, spending 21 weeks at No. 1, surpassing the 20-week run of Lil Nas X's “Old Town Road,” featuring Billy. Ray Cyrus, as the song with the most weeks at No. 1 on the chart since an exhaustive survey of the genre took place in 1958.

At the 2023 Grammy Awards, he led the nominees with nine nods and ended up taking home three awards. danger signal won Best Progressive R&B album, “Snooze” won Best R&B Song, and her collaboration with Phoebe Bridgers, “Ghost in the Machine,” won Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.