SZA Opens Up About Her Music While Eating Spicy Wings on 'Hot Ones'

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SZA is taking on the spicy wings of death. The 34-year-old musician sat down in the latest episode of Hot Ones ahead of the release of her album Lana.

During the appearance, SZA discussed her songwriting process, relationship with fame, the value of disguise, her love of Sky Zone trampoline parks and more. Keep reading to find out more… On her music… “…I consider myself to be the glue like to my stuff and like the glue to my sound…I don’t know what sh-t means to me until I say it as I do it…and so I’ll usually ask, like ‘was that crazy?’ And he’ll be like *shrugs shoulders* kill your ex…and that’s how it all just comes together and becomes beautiful.” On suffering to feel accomplished… “I have a hard time enjoying anything if I don’t suffer for it…I feel like ‘Nobody Gets Me’ is like my goal of like ‘oh, I can make a ballad, I can make XY&Z’…and then they’re just like…but this other song that took you like three seconds to write as like a joke to your engineer is what…I don’t know…suffering adds value in all ways.” On Ctrl’s impact… “People say a lot like about Ctrl…but I think people forget like people weren’t really f-cking with it so crazy when it first dropped.

That was like a slow ascension…more like people look back on it and was like this meant something to me and I didn’t realize it meant something to me…If anything I’m just more surprised how all of it played out, not that way I thought it would but more than I ever expected at the same time…the word ‘classic’ is like slightly adjacent to something that I created and that’s so crazy and I definitely didn’t see that coming.” On her relationship to music… “It’s just not honest enough for me…I be like I thought you liked this?