SZA‘s been making music for over a decade, but she still struggles with whether fame is for her.
“Every day I grapple with, ‘Am I done with music?’ Maybe I’m just not meant to be famous – I’m crashing and burning and behaving erratically. It’s not for me because I have so much anxiety,” she tells British Vogue. “But why would God put me in this position if I wasn’t supposed to be doing this? So I just keep trying to rise to the occasion. But I’m also just like, ‘Please, the occasion is beating my a**.’”
Until she makes a different decision, SZA’s been working on her upcoming project, Lana. “I think I am making music from a more beautiful place. From a more possible place versus a more angsty place,” she says. “I’m not identifying with my brokenness. It’s not my identity. It’s s*** that happened to me. Yeah, I experienced cruelty. I have to put it down at some point. Piece by piece, my music is shifting because of that, the lighter I get.”
To continue decreasing the load, SZA finds yoga and meditation to be helpful, noting, “You don’t have to imagine anything is happening to you. In that weird stillness, something arrives at you every time.”
As of now, there’s no release date for Lana.
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