“I’m trying to learn how to stand still and be in it—and be okay with that,” SZA tells me later, sounding at once skeptical and hopeful.
It’s just that she has all this energy, this innate momentum, this drive that propelled her from being an undergrad marine biology major to a music industry sensation (with side gigs as a Sephora salesperson and strip club bartender in between). “But I’m not meant to be still,” she decides, and honestly, that’s fine by her fans.
Stillness isn’t what we’ve been waiting for. See, it’s been a long three—almost four—years since her first big album, Ctrl. You know, the one that came with a Time magazine 2017 Album of the Year shout-out and five Grammy nominations.
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