SZA Talks About Her New Album, Ex-Boyfriends, Sidechicks & More

Enough, yeah, I feel like that's what you were talking about a while ago tell me if I'm wrong and my interpretation might be different, but it sounded like you were waiting for a man. I imagined it together and turning you into an honest woman. It's not okay if you say normal groves and you love the way I blow up my blouse. I love how you lose your cool. I look at you saying I'll be willing and you love that so I'm a pain in the ass. I'm stressful and that's just how I am. I'm also very funny and we're going to do this for as long as possible. however you want to do it that's all it is and what it says a normal girl likes to feel like I always wanted to be I feel like doing that I ended up dating we're always dating like this like an archetype where it was like several degrees very The aristocratic ones were very conservative and reserved, they were like a bad person and they liked something very crazy with nice skin and they drank a lot of water and I liked a lot of credentials and I love it, so it's a long list.

What's up with this one? right, that's the kind of girls they like and I don't know why I only end up dating them, they like the craziest women and I think in the process, yeah, um, so that was me, kind of like They're both normal girls to you . This is what you consider a normal girl. I wish I was a good normal because I'm not. I'm not organized. It doesn't make sense many times and again I will be willing. And by the way you said that three times, what exactly were you? I'm like I venture really hard and I play really hard, so like I'm going to Mexico, I hit my car but I continue my journey.

I had a fantastic time, but your baby no, no, wait, they come out with some weapons, you don't walk away from what happened to you because you don't want to get caught up in it, oh man, you know I was just running with my friend on something. on a bike and she hit like an alley. I was trying to crush her and I couldn't so I turned around and then her taxi came in and I was in my thong coming from the beach, suddenly all these police came with very big guns and they were fine. They paid $1000 with my life.

You know, they hit me. He was limping. I'm like everything is fine. I don't mind. Thank you very much for inviting me. Yes, no, I had the ankle, the arm, the scratches, the tape and I had like Montezuma's Revenge the next day oh diarrhea for nine hours it was oh my good already sang no I drove to Playa del Carmen in Tulum oh you see, that's it incredible, I was in there I would really like these inaudible and very offensive words not to fit, tell them not to hire a great look at all those other adjectives you had in your wheeled bag, in fact you just prepared it, so use means that I'm just trying to imagine. your middle classes in the bathroom the older than I am now I wasn't in cenotes I had a girl I love that not one day do I bite and I get sick I didn't get sick until almost well I want to do water sports because I'm extras and I drove to Playa del Carmen and yeah, I was having a great time, my mouth was open and I was screaming like I was having a great time in the genitive and you can just come, why wouldn't a guy like that?

It sounds like fun, especially if you're paying for it because I offered. I got hit by a car in Mexico, yeah, oh, you made him hit the back of the bike, right? Yeah, but I like what I like, man in the back of a bar, guys, yeah. that's right, that's what he is, you should have been riding the bike, what the hell do you want to take the bike final? I'm better, I'm not going to risk this race for you, just wait, yeah, and we're a little crazy, yeah, yeah, guys still. writing for other people, oh my god, I think I'm ready now.

I don't think I was ready before when people asked me to write because I'd never written to anyone before, but now I think I'm

more

or less ready. In development, I think everyone has a different way of communicating with the world and through music in general and I had to discover the way I communicated with the world and what my favorite form of musical communication was and I think before of being able to really Write for someone with confidence and now I know it's like you have to find a style. If you don't have a style, then you're writing for other people with them in mine.

What would you say? But I think honesty and You know, all those words come from a place that counts for everyone, because it's about how you know everyone, not just how you know yourself, so I had to figure out what my style is and how I communicate what what I feel, what I know and just simplify. somehow, but save it, I don't know, I had to learn one on my own, it seems like writing for other people. Now I'm ready for your grandma or your mom to give you advice without grandma mmm, yeah, okay. I'm a little different people, yeah, it's not that they, jeez, are jeans.

I have the best family in the world and I am sure everyone has a beautiful family. I was never crazy enough I said in my entire life I never asked my mother about men and I asked my grandmother or my father no one told me about all my sisters about men in my entire life and I think I have focused

more

on the activities or what I wanted to do and my son and my family never talked to me about aesthetics or being attractive or what I like when I'm older because I think, damn, I wish someone would explain to me how to polish myself like every now. and again why would I want to?

Actually it wasn't exactly him. I ran on track. I just put it into sports again. You don't have time for that, boy, you just practice all day, so we don't have to have that. kind of key athlete oh no yeah we're definitely still in a yeah um I don't know I think the weight gain had to be hard because you were a gymnast so you were always skinny and well I was muscular but I was very heavy, I was even a virgin and I went to the track, so it was very easy for me because we were doing 100-200, very similar to the squads and a lot of muscle memory, so that pack dong was like eating and everything.

The rest was very heavy and very difficult to get down because 200 feels like 220 when you have muscles or anything else involved, it was crazy, a lot of stress eating, yeah, I just get bored, I want to eat, I'm sad. I want to eat, I'm happy, let's eat, Jesus, now we can go shopping, let's go shopping, Annie, okay, so what a man's apartment you are very competitive, like you compete in everything when it comes to your man, no, do you? where is my man? Yeah, I flip my Both, I see, I mean you're an athlete, so that's basically what you've been trained to do, so no matter what it is, man, you've got to be better.

I'm going to make you the first thing that no one will ever know again, okay, come on. there I know what I want, okay, a real man would come first, what you never let him win, oh my god, my mother will see this, she definitely told me after the logo, she said, don't do that, no more discounts , that's all. conversation I'm not listening ahead um yes I am I'm very competitive and I can't help it it's weird I didn't even know I like it I only realize that with men because but it's exciting it's healthy it's like normal I play and play with you like crazy, come catch up and then I'll be back it'll be like whatever I seem to have it's fun and I think tracking and being a gymnast is really a one on one competition it's not. as you know, it's weird, that's how it is and it's not because you have to represent your group, you don't have to embarrass the people you live with, but it's like you shine too bright if people don't like you and you're nice. of your group and then it's like life is really correct, but it's like you're pointing out your details and everything that you prepared for it at this moment, but it also reflects on a whole like a humanity and a society and you just don't like what Why was Drew Barrymore an inspiration for you?

Because you got the record and then she digs you up on Kimmel's roofs, right, oh yeah, I just Lee, come on and she went to eat salad or something and said, "She's so nice, she's amazing, why is she a inspiration, you make all the records that are named after Oh Raymond, yeah, basically, I think when she came out there was something very interesting when I was younger, like I said, like all the actresses at that time, like all the white actresses of that time, like Nicole Kidman and like Michelle Pfeiffer and similar, like the leg, you know, like polished gold, like the hands, like the ones you remember, like cartoons, hey, yes, I'm like Roosevelt, but come like that, or even Glenn Close, like when the clothes weren't like the the epitome of, you know, textbook beauty in Fatal Attraction, but she was still the reason why I'm blonde and we're all white. and angelic, that was the idea and with Drew it was a little peculiar, he was cooking Teebs, he has a laugh.

As if she really laughed, from here it's a giggle, it's as if she were less violent, as if she made me feel that I identified a lot with her characters. I have an amazing life growing up like I didn't know, yeah, she was high, he was high. when she was half i started going to parties and doing all kinds of crazy things when she was really nervous yeah classic yeah she just made me be a dumb person and i think i attached everything. I love living single for the same reason. attachment to Khadijah and Claire I like them because they're very silly and that's how I get depressed like it's just assumed, yeah, if you had some black women like always, siliceous, I come to those, it's just a matter of when I think about movies and Por I usually think of trendy hair and energy for movies and visuals, what inspires me, so when I think of Drew Barrymore, I think of poison ivy and when she swings on that swing, like she has the hair to one side and like. she's in a dark place but she's a little sad, she feels lonely, she wants more, she's with this girl who seems to have a perfect life, who's also pretty boring and she's over her life too, like it's weird, she likes it dysfunctional with some sexually deviant stranger. like she was weird so it made me feel like she was this dark being and my friends make everything from scratch so when they hit the chord and they like all that stuff it just builds and you start to see it rear its head. a lot of white people literally I did that's why I'm Pelayo your images of beauty or stretchy white women I guess it's a way to make you think I'm in the video oh I live I noticed you said you were in a song after. for a while in a very mixed environment my specialty is a beauty after a while my hair would have no texture no, what is a girl like?

What I've seen is all kinds of white people. I think if it's about love, why do I accept it. I have seen some ignorant people in all shades. I've seen some haters. It seems really sad. Things I can support in all colors and shades. so I think if anything I've had a strange experience, like even at gymnastics, like my hair isn't slicked back, like everyone likes spray made from the same thing better. I got a different bill, as you know, black. The girls just have a different build, like I have a body like I'm on their team and I'm still small because I'm a gymnast, but I'm pretty shapely, I'm wearing a leotard and my legs are out.

It's like it's a different experience for me, so I think in my Girl Scout Troop I like being the only black girls more, so I don't know. I had a beautiful experience. I had some learning experiences. some unfortunate experiences with white people that might contribute to your insecurities at all um no, I don't think white people in particular have contributed to my insecurities. I think society and the way I think of self-love is a very strange thing to try. teach your kids because you're guided only by example, and they pick it up and absorb it, and my parents are just as corporate and successful and like all these other things that I don't know like we are.

I just didn't, I never took the time to improve my confidence like always, so I guess I don't know, and my girl from home was like I was very, I also felt very comfortable like I was the meat like I didn't. knew. Like the fool, well, like I am, I'm the friend, like I'm always okay, like none of my friends are that beautiful and I dress nice and like they give me advice and call me baby hair and whatever else they want . getting dressed has been for the day, but I think the security just came like no, it's just the way I was built.

I think I always have been. I was doing it, yeah, well, I mean, I think we're all good now. Who is it? Who is it? 100 percent fine now all the time I think I'm very happy with the way my life is shaping up. I feel very blessed. I'm super happy to not be as sick as before. I'm happy to feel like I have a choice when I see pasta um, how about that day's

album

? I don't know, I don't know, you all know it was good, I was very happy, anything, really, um, I mean, I've tried, we have this backup plan, right? to where this bag of bags new moon phase made a backup plan to where if I couldn't if I couldn't handle releasing the

album

because I didn't like it but I would post a picture of me listening to the album and just explain that I finished it, explain what I know try and leave it alone though, once you created it it's almost available for public consumption, now that you do your best work thenYou must remember that you know what it is. your best work and those were my problems, I think it matters, I think when I was younger I was very fast and I was excited to be who I am especially, I'm good at this, I'm the lady in that book, like when you When you grow up, you start to realize how small you are in the world and you don't think that we are all special, but none of us is more special than the other, not at all, but it is interesting, it is very humbling, it is very Animus.

It's strange, there's a fine line between humiliating and paralyzing because it's like when you realize you're not or you're not, you know everything you think you are, but there's so much room to grow, it's very inspiring and exciting, but it's also I wonder if I've grown enough yet to return to the world. Am I prepared to be in this place? And I think that's where my dad always said, "You're never as good as they say, you never are." bad and they say you're like that's an assigned trip he definitely put on this album you can't listen to it and I'm gone now he taught me how to make sure I'm okay I feel like I think they're women I know women are going to love it this album because I told you that I felt a lot of emotions when I heard it because there are many situations that we have all been in and not too many. songs that we have that we can relate it to mmm what is a party just writing I'm into behaving like I love Erykah Badu I love to Flo's trees like I love Marsha Ambrosius as a soloist I love Jill Scott so much anyway this is kind of this is in that vein that twenty-somethings is the perfect anthem for I think for a lot of twenty-somethings they're just trying to figure it out.

I feel like this. A thousand exercises or writing exercises, you have a content cleaner, are you looking forward to it? at 30 you just look yeah no I don't know I feel rushed pun take your time girl 100 hater when we say make me feel bad systematically I know how to sample so when he's mad at me and he feels like I I'm being immature like if he's thirty he wouldn't be like wow that's terrible. I can't be deformed, he's fine, no, he doesn't live in Romania, he lets him be more mature, right? Do you think I need it? go but I think my 20s have been the most violent and strange experience body wind violin doesn't have to mean physical violence it has to mean blood blood guts it could literally be violent you've never felt something shake like that emotionally abrasive it's like it's been visually abrasive, I think right now for anyone who's a 20-year-old in the Washington state of the world in their teens and whatever age is completely different right now, it feels crazy, so I think my twenties just ended.

I have learned a lot about legs. I'm sure I have a lot left to do before I'm 30, but at 30 I'm trying to relax like I do something like you have to make the most of all your time and don't take it the wrong way, but you have to finish all your time before the 30 like any 30 minutes no, no, you have to get up like you did, I don't know, you do whatever, maybe you know, my eyes, you do whatever you want, they called me and said I'm going to go see this man and to this machine, she's so conservative, Ella, but it made me feel like she's comfortable and confident, settled down and paid, so she's just doing what she wants, oh, I just thought that, older women, to you They're doing well, their album is.

I'm very confident and I have a lot of control, so that's a good sign. Are you going on tour? Thank God. I'm tired of seeing the same songs. I feel like I'm bored. The sound of my own music. I'm finally going to go and do it. I rehearse and I am very excited this time. I think the last time we were on tour I didn't know what I was doing. I never acted alive. I didn't even know how to hang the dice for the guys. It was an accident that I discovered on tour. That's how this is.

The album came out sounding like I didn't know I was singing in falsetto at a much lower pitch, when you're live with a loud bang on your butt you have to shout at them to be able to hear yourself etc so no I know what kind of blame you don't know what you're talking about but someone is learning she has learning disabilities I don't either that's good I'm glad I don't know that because I didn't know it with me not only did I talk on Twitter that she stopped wearing hijab after 9/11 September, you should come, that's semi true, yes, I wrote this, no, so, my parents, my mother is Christian and my father is Muslim, so I would wear my hijab as long as I was like my mother. very supported, since I went to the Muslim preparatory school on Fridays.

I went to do my job with my dad and I felt like my dad ran my house, so that's how everyone went, but I still go to church with my mom every other day. Sunday or excited because my dad is understanding and a human being um so I don't know when 9/11 happened it was like I don't know it became a thing and I didn't know it was a thing like kids. They were very crucial, yes, and they were very sure of how they felt about me or about religion or Islam or they liked the idea and when they were children they thought it was something very separate, like you don't believe in God. believing in Allah when exactly, literally, the translation is like it's just not another and I think the fact that children are children combined with fear and ignorance and so it was a very traumatizing thing that happens to all of us, like when when we were We kids had to sit down and have an assembly and everyone was talking about it, so in retrospect it hurt me to feel like this whole thing like Islamophobia was growing and snowballing and all the fuss because I know the damage it really did.

I can cause and where that comes from and where it comes from. place of ignorance and fear now I'm a place I don't even know, you know, no one wants to be that hateful or that, but no one wants to be that scared either, so it's like I don't know you if I had to talk. Above, what do you think the seal might look like? Hey, you know what? Maybe not right now. What I would never do. I did it. Every other time I've been at the label I've been feeling exactly that way. Leave your support.

Explaining that is real and true and I think because someone like you stands up and you know that embracing your faith right now could really help the community help the Muslim community, yes, but I also don't know that Muslims will. I agree, I also want to be careful how I represent my community or the Muslim community because I have a lot of respect and a lot of reverence and I know that I don't live according to who I am, so I went with a percentage of statements, yes, I mean , like me. I feel like I can support people in any way I can and I don't.

I also don't feel like I'm not allowed to wear a hijab. I don't exactly like it to be authentic, so I'm not going to do it. jump out the window and start a mosque tomorrow, but I definitely feel like there's someone who needs to talk or hang our backup film and I have no problem using a job. I've chosen new ones recently like it's very comfortable. I just feel comfortable because I love everyone and I want everyone to not feel afraid. I'm looking forward to educating some of these younger kids before they go crazy. I think snatching your punch in the hallway can help in a positive and friendly way.

I don't know if it affected you in any way. Could you choose like, I guess, fear of faith, yeah, that affects your relationship with God, that affects the way you process kindness, that was a very interesting thing, I think a lot. of things it's strange like religion when you're young versus religion when you're older is determined by your parents, relationship with the church, the people in the church, etc., and when I say church I mean any denomination, we have a congregation , so I'm just thinking about I don't know, it took me a long time to stop being afraid and fall into faith, but it's strange that then I entered Christianity to learn and not because I was afraid of Islam, but simply because I spent a lot of my time childhood running away from problems with my father and that represented Islam at that time for me and plus nine eleven plus everything else, which is like I had to try something else, like I just wanted to like what I needed.

Have you ever had problems? My daughters are very severe. My dad is very severe and he is very, he doesn't beat around the bush and he doesn't deny the things he says. And sometimes you know, I don't know. I think my dad was just growing up at the same time my parents were growing up at the same time I was growing up and I'm sure they wanted more for me initially they were afraid that I wouldn't have enough but it wouldn't be enough and I don't know I think my dad just understands it, I get it, he was really getting rough with another one, but I'm not afraid of a protective third parent understanding what you are in the music industry, you don't care, that's so backwards.

He didn't want me on roller coasters, he didn't want me to invent and do random things, but he wanted me to go to school, that's not what it was about, it wasn't the music industry, what he didn't want, it was more that's what he wanted. He asked me to do something with my life and he felt like I wasn't sure if being in music was like doing something with my life, but for nine years, yeah, he was depressed, he left, he called me one day and I think he was angry. . I'm here, home. now yeah he's singing about me and from my perspective y'all how to change it dad might be looking at you they're going to ask they're really going to see a nasty question since you said your mom never addressed certain things about relationships that you think Now they will be like what you mean, real, yeah I see, who will care?

No, I've talked to mom, it's funny, my mom is like when she dies now, talk to her about men and the way she is. Now I feel that she wants me to be patient and that she likes to be loving and understanding, but also that she doesn't accept, no, oh no, it's weird. I'm not an advice person, so my friends go talk to my friends about men. friends, but we think I'll have fun, but actually I'm not like that, I'm just cute, those kind of thoughts to myself, I'll explain the album title to you to get you out of this.

I can tell you that you have to pee, no, you just know. With Kirby I'm very much like, say, Judy and my legs are the most restless part of me, so I always like to adjust them and I want to feel my legs in the photo, but I can't and it's Terry, are you older? Yes, let me. I stretch a lot I stretch a lot every day, so I'll control, yeah, I mean, well, it's live contact, it's more so when I first think about computer key control, I think about sneaking into my parents' attic to waste and call I like work even though I'm banned from the phone and computer and could be a thirty-year-old citizen.

You make a lot of old olive oil. You are never well directed. Oh, you could be over thirty and twenty if I was literally. There is Twitter. and point and instantly all that came in the same thing of my life so like I was here before Twitter I was here before real internet like before it was like a whole world wide web and she was young at that time oh yeah but I want kanjou I know and I like to Google random things like that's what any of us were doing there back then it wasn't available so look let me just Google it, what else looks gross?

What's that? It's a porn site, a manga loan that I used to set up. ride around in that little van and just walk up to random girls and try to get them to have sex oh wait oh no not relevant a creepy van and women Agri first mean girls in the van okay hearty moms I'm Pam it's Australia control over The concept is just that I've just lacked control and I think I've longed for it my whole life and I couldn't really achieve it and now I'm no longer looking to get there. I'm just happy to be. present and when trying it is strange if you try to control a future moment it is impossible and there is no control anyway for the concept it is a word it is a fantasy room but if you concentrate on controlling how you feel in the now and what you do with that now I feel like it leads you to have real control in the future I don't know, it's a theory, I'll find out if I need to, well, we like to see you figure it out.

It would really get me high. I'm not just saying it's really a really good album, thank you really great. I appreciate you should be proud of yourself Sidhu here we go yeah well yeah scissors it's The Breakfast Club good morning so have breakfast uh every weekday morning tune in.