On December 9th, 2022, SZA, who is a 4 time Grammy winner that is widely known for creating R&B music, released her high charting album SOS. The meaningful album cover shows her sitting on a diving board that overlooks a portion of the ocean. This symbolizes a photo that was taken by the paparazzi back in 1997 of Princess Dianna just shortly before she passed away. The album cover foreshadows how many of the songs throughout the record will go through many different feelings such as pain and isolation. This album has a total of 23 songs, and in total it is an hour and eight minutes long.
♫ Track 1: SOS
To kick off the album, SZA starts with her song SOS, which is the title track of the album. This was the perfect song to start the album off with. It introduced the topic of trying to get away from a toxic relationship, which is a topic that is heavily mentioned throughout this album.
♫ Track 2: Kill Bill
This song is about the emotions after a toxic relationship ended. She goes through a series of thoughts on getting revenge on her ex. In December, 2022, this song made it to top charts. The beat to this song is really catchy, and it is definitely a song that I will listen to again.
♫ Track 3: Seek & Destroy
Seek & Destroy talks about how shattered love can make you.
♫ Track 4: Low
In the song Low, SZA describes how she is a different person in the inside and outside world. She mentions how to everyone else she seems like a contained and quiet person, but someone who knows her personally sees a side of her that isn’t like that.
♫ Track 5: Love Language
Love Language mentions how she wants to understand her partner better in her relationship. She wants to be able to connect to them, and understand them better.
♫ Track 6: Blind
In this song, SZA mentions her insecurities, and how she is unable to see good things. This song has soft guitar instrumentals playing in the background, highlighting the raw emotion of the feelings that she is experiencing.
♫ Track 7: Used (feat. Don Toliver)
Track 7 is a song about seeing how great a past relationship once was, and now it is coming to an end.
♫ Track 8: Snooze
In the song Snooze, SZA sings about loving someone so much that she doesn’t want to miss out on any moments with them.
♫ Track 9: Notice Me
Notice Me is a song about the longing of a former relationship with someone who didn’t love you as much as you loved them. All that she wanted to know was if her partner noticed her.
♫ Track 10: Gone Girl
This is a song about letting someone go, and having to better yourself. She talks about the difficulties of letting go, and how her memories can’t escape her.
♫ Track 11: Smoking on my Ex Pack
This is one of her rap songs off of this album. It is a song about how she treated her exes.
♫ Track 12: Ghost in the Machine (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)
This song is one of my personal favorite from the album. It is a collaboration with famous singer, Phoebe Bridgers. This track is about the music industry, and how it is changing.
♫ Track 13: F2F
This track is another one of my favorites off of the album. It has got such a fun beat, and it is such a catchy song to sing along to.
♫ Track 14: Nobody Gets Me
Nobody gets me is another really popular song off of this record. This song is about the last moments of her relationship with her ex fiancé. She is heartbroken, and feels as if nobody will understand her in the same way that her ex fiancé once did.
♫ Track 15: Conceited
This song is where you start to see a new set of feelings than the previous bit of the album. This song introduces her growth from her previous relationship. Conceited is a song about being able to do good on your own, and feeling fine after a terrible break up.
♫ Track 16: Special
Special is a self critical song. She mentioned how her ex changed her into wanting to be someone she is not.
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♫ Track 17: Too Late
This song is about being out of a relationship, but wondering if it would be possible to get their past partner back.
♫ Track 18: Far
In this song, SZA sings about how she feels after her relationship. She feels as if she is a different person from who she used to be.
♫ Track 19: Shirt
This is another song that is about being in a toxic relationship with somebody. It is complicated, and leaves her feeling lost and exhausted.
♫ Track 20: Open Arms (feat. Travis Scott)
Open Arms is a song about rough patches that are encountered throughout a relationship. You find yourself breaking apart, and now you have to leave that relationship because it’s what’s best.
♫ Track 21: I Hate U
Track 21 is another song on this album that is about heartbreak. SZA talks about how in her past relationship, the other person mistreated her, and now she is left pondering about it.
♫ Track 22: Good Days
This is the most popular song off of the album. Good Days is a song about being in a former relationship with someone, and having to move on past them. This song is about reflection, hope, and optimism.
♫ Track 23: Forgiveless
SZA wraps up her record with a song named Forgiveless. This is a song about self-confidence, and not backing down.
I really enjoyed listening to this album. It was definitely an album that SZA poured her heart into. It went through many feelings and emotions such as hatred, love, emptiness, and more. It is an album I would listen to again, and I would definitely recommend it to someone who is looking for an album with deep lyrics and meanings.
