
Steve Lacy has teamed up with SZA on new single 'is it cool?'
The R&B collaborators link up ahead of his album 'Oh yeah?'.
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The closing track on 'Ctrl' strips back to electric guitar and vocal reverb, SZA cataloguing the precarity of a decade spent between adolescence and arrival. She frames the song around a breakup that doubles as self-inventory: no assets, no certainty, a habit of fleeing intimacy before it can disappoint her. The refrain cycles through blessing, hope, and a plea that the years don't prove fatal, the repetition itself a kind of anxious ritual.
SZA credits the lyric 'honesty hurts when you're getting older', the admission landing early and setting the temperature for what follows. The outro samples a spoken reflection on control and illusion, a voice choosing comfort over the abyss, which mirrors the song's own reluctance to let go of a formative, difficult passage. The instrumentation echoes the album's opening track, 'Supermodel', bookending the record with the same sparse palette and unresolved questions.
"20 Something" is a track by SZA, from the album Ctrl, released 8th June 2017. The track is 3:18 long. It's filed under R&B/Soul. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about SZA.
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