SZA Previews Upcoming Third Album at BST Hyde Park Headline Show

During her headlining set at BST Hyde Park on June 29, 2024, SZA shared exciting news with fans about her upcoming album. She asked the crowd, “New album, you ready?” before playing a snippet of an unreleased song titled “Storytime”. The artist later shared the official teaser via social media, revealing the lyrics “I know you told stories about me/ Most of them awful, all of them true/ Here’s some for you, yeah.”

In the accompanying clip, viewers got a closer look at SZA’s alien-like grasshopper makeup created by FX artists Malina Stearns and Sasha Glasser, the latter of whom worked on Doja Cat’s “Paint The Town Red” costume.

Although SZA didn’t confirm the album’s title, fans have been anticipating LANA, which was teased as a deluxe edition of her chart-topping album SOS. She first announced the project during a surprise performance in New York’s Brooklyn Navy Yard, revealing it would span seven to 10 songs.

“It was gonna be [SOS] outtakes and some new songs, but it’s become more than I expected,” the “Love Galore” singer told Variety in a cover story. “It was gonna be really soft because I had made all my screaming points, and I just wanted to glide, and not think [too much], and get out of my own head — I was so happy to say some st that didn’t mean a fking thing.”

In March 2024, SZA shared that she would be starting the LP from scratch after several unauthorized songs surfaced online. “So, we’ll make this really simple. Y’all leaked three songs from the deluxe. At this point, y’all can keep the throwaways and leaks,” she wrote on Twitter. “Do not ask me about it again. Thank you.”

Chad Mauli

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