![]() “Talkin’ I’m off the bench like Brady / I’m pressin’ niggas like KD, it’s up,” she sing-raps, referring to Tom Brady and Kevin Durant. ![]() Producer Jay Versace calls upon Gabriel Hardeman Delegation’s “Until I Found the Lord (My Soul Couldn’t Rest)” for the beat, giving her disses the weight of the gospel. ![]() The sample, however, has slightly different vibes. SZA came on the album’s intro mad as hell (see lyrics like “Nah, li’l bitch, can’t let you finish” or “Yeah, that’s right, I need commissions on mine / All that sauce you got from me”). Below, a song-by-song guide to all the key references in SOS. There’s even a little bit of Björk and Beyoncé, sampled and interpolated, respectively. The album references evoke images of a certain recently divorced quarterback clinging to his top spot in football, multiple canonical films (most notably Save the Last Dance), teachings from a controversial celebrity guru, and biblical tales of floods and resurrection. Even the album cover harkens back to a famous image of Princess Diana perched mournfully atop the edge of a diving board, a symbol of her isolation. In her latest album, SOS, her second major project since the timeless classic Ctrl, SZA employs an arsenal of pop-culture references to add some spice to her already well-seasoned lyrics about growing up (“I’m so mature, I got me a therapist to tell me there’s other men / I don’t want none, I just want you,” she sings on “Kill Bill”) and bitch-ass men (“Abracadabra, you niggas Sideshow,” raps SZA in “Smoking on My Ex Pack”). Her vulnerable tracks are often exercises in telling on herself - a brutally honest look at the extent to which a man had her fucked up, quiet admissions of insecurity, or just how many prisoners her pussy got. If you peel back all the layers of SZA, you’ll find a lyricist at the core.
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