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The fifth track on 'Ctrl' carries a pop-disco sound that recalls SZA's earlier EPs, a bright production choice that frames a lyric preoccupied with arrested development. She addresses a partner who waits whilst she fails to grow at the expected pace, the chorus a repeated plea not to take her shortcomings personally. The verses catalogue small failures of adulthood: forgetting to ring her mother, living too much in the present to think about consequences, the shame of knowing better but not yet doing better.
SZA credits herself in the lyric, singing 'Promise to get a little / Better as I get older / And you're so patient / And sick of waiting'. The prom of the title functions as metaphor, the last big event before graduation, the moment when living for now collides with the future you've been ignoring. The production stays buoyant even as the subject matter turns inward, the tension between sound and sentiment doing much of the song's work.
"Prom" is a track by SZA, from the album Ctrl, released 8th June 2017. The track is 3:16 long. It's filed under R&B/Soul. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about SZA.
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