After months of delays and hypothesis, SZA has lastly introduced the discharge date for Lana, the long-awaited deluxe version of her chart-topping album SOS. The challenge is about to reach on Friday, Dec. 20, as confirmed by way of a teaser video shared on social media.
Within the clip shared Monday (Dec. 16), Stiller channels his internal superfan, dramatically lip-syncing to what’s presumed to be SZA’s new monitor “Drive” whereas driving by means of a wet night time.
If the scene feels acquainted, it’s as a result of Stiller additionally as soon as made an iconic lip-syncing cameo in Jack Johnson’s “Taylor” video again in 2003 — besides this time, he’s swapping a guitar for a steering wheel.
Lana has been within the works for over two years, with SZA first teasing it as “a complete different album” full of outtakes and new tracks. In a current interview with British Vogue, she mirrored on her evolving inventive course of. “I feel I’m making music from a extra lovely place. From a extra potential place versus a extra angsty place,” she defined.
“I’m not figuring out with my brokenness. It’s not my id. It’s shit that occurred to me. Yeah, I skilled cruelty. I’ve to place it down in some unspecified time in the future. Piece by piece, my music is shifting due to that, the lighter I get.”
The deluxe launch marks one other chapter within the SOS period, which has been nothing in need of huge.
Following its launch, SOS debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with 318,000 equal album models – the third-highest debut week of 2022 – and shattered the document for the largest streaming week for an R&B album by a girl, with 404.6 million official on-demand streams for the album’s songs, in keeping with Luminate. It spent 10 whole weeks atop the chart, and have become the primary R&B album by a girl to hit the double-digit mark since Mariah Carey’s self-titled debut posted 11 weeks at No. 1 in 1991.
With Lana now confirmed, the discharge completely aligns with SZA’s upcoming stadium tour alongside Kendrick Lamar, kicking off in 2025. As a part of their extremely anticipated Grand Nationwide tour, introduced by Reside Nation, pgLang and High Dawg Leisure, the duo are setting off on a North American stadium tour starting in April 2025.
The Grand Nationwide tour will kick off in Minnesota on April 19 and make its method by means of main cities throughout the nation together with Houston, Atlanta, Philadelphia, the New York space, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Detroit, Chicago and even Toronto earlier than wrapping up in Washington, D.C., on June 18.
