SZA Releases Long-AwaitedSOS Deluxe: LanaAfter Many, Many Delays: 'Just Needed a Few More Hours'

Mar. 15, 2025

SZA.Photo:Christopher Polk/Variety via Getty

Christopher Polk/Variety via Getty

Aftermuchanticipation from her fanbase,Lanahas finally arrived.

SZAreleasedSOS Deluxe: LANA, a new,extended versionof her sophomore album, on Friday, Dec. 20, following various delays. The 38-track project includes 14 brand-new songs, in addition to the previously-released “Saturn” and all 23 songs from the originalSOS.

Originally set to drop at midnight on Dec. 20, the “Good Days” singer, 35, said one day beforehand that the “full deluxe drops first thing tomorrow AM.”

“(Had to get my mixes right lol ! All songs are delivered and Ingesting into the system as we speak🙂‍↕️ pls be kind .. we been up for days ),” shewrote on Instagramalongside a moody visualizer to her deluxe song “Drive.”

When the morning arrived, fans wondered why it hadn’t dropped and shared their thoughts on social media.

Then, at 10:27 a.m. PT, Terrence “Punch” Henderson of SZA’s Top Dawg Entertainment label revealed the deluxe album would drop at “12 pm” PT in a post shared to X. “It’s my fault,“he wrote.

Fans flooded the social media site with memes as they waited for the album’s arrival. One fan shared their feelings with a video ofAdelelooking unamused at a basketball game. “Me acting like Idc about Lana so it comes faster,” the X userwrote.

Another user shared a compilation ofSarah Hyland’s character posing for mugshots inModern Familyandcaptioned the post: “me if opening Spotify every hour on the hour to check in SZA dropped Lana was a crime.”

Another user shared a gif of a woman looking confused and made a reference to the artist’s 2017 hit “Broken Clocks,“writing, “so SZA is those clocks broken ??#LANA.”

SZA — who’sgoing on tourwithKendrick Lamarin 2025 — firstteasedLANAin December 2023.

One year later on Dec. 16, sheofficially confirmedLANAwould be out Dec. 20. She made the announcement alongside a clip ofBen Stillerin the video for her then-unreleased track “Drive,” which appears on the project.

SZA.Joseph Okpako/WireImage

Joseph Okpako/WireImage

“a day late but Happy 1 year anniversary to an album that is ACTIVELY CHANGING MY LIFE .. like rn currently changing my life,” she began. “I haven’t processed this year AT ALL cause it’s still happening. this is beyond my wildest dreams . I never imagined we’d accomplish a fraction of the accolades that came from this.”

“It often doesn’t feel real and it’s funny cause I swore I’d know what to do if it ever happened 😂 turns out I I froze .. I know the perils of drinking the koolaid so I won’t dabble,” SZA continued, adding that she had to “express the immense GRATITUDE I have for every person that made this possible . Every person that’s been apart of this journey,”

SOSspent ten weeks atop theBillboard200, and the single “Kill Bill” became her first No. 1 on theBillboardHot 100. The album earned her three Grammy Awards in February.

source: people.com