SZA to Release Deluxe Edition of ‘SOS’ With 10 Bonus Tracks

variety.com:

Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor It’s sitting right there in the middle of SZA’s “Woman of the Year” interview with Billboard: A “deluxe edition” of her blockbuster second album “SOS” featuring “10 additional tracks” is “coming soon,” with no further details.

While SZA had mentioned in previous interviews that a deluxe edition was in the works, it literally took her five years to release a deluxe version of her 2017 debut, “Ctrl” — however it appears this one will be coming much sooner.

Contacted by Variety, a rep for RCA, SZA’s label, had no further information — and considering that “SOS” already packs 23 tracks into a surprisingly not-overlong 68 minutes, it’s already got plenty of substance.

However, it’s not hard to guess what some of the tracks might be. In a Rolling Stone podcast interview just after the album’s release in December, SZA said that her management team gave a thumbs-down to such songs as “PSA,” Boy From South Detroit” and “Joni” — both of which have been circulating on the internet for some time. “A song called ‘Boy From South Detroit’ that Twitter wanted really bad, [neither managers] Rob nor Punch really cared about that song,” SZA said. “They weren’t excited about it and Rob was just like, ‘I don’t really think this is the song.’ And then Punch was indifferent about the song, but I was like, ‘No, I really believe in this!’” SZA then says that the song is will be on a future deluxe edition of the album.