SZA
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4.0
excellent

Review

by lildump USER (1 Reviews)
June 2nd, 2018 | 3 replies


Release Date: 2017 | Tracklist

Review Summary: The internal struggles of a woman.

This album mixes RnB with pop in a way of fashion that blew my mind.

Through my experience with female singers/artists all over these years, I have never ever seen an artist as unique as SZA. She's brutally honest, and gives her own touch to everything she hops on. That is clearly visible in this album, as singles like "Love Galore" clearly blend in synths that are interstellar. The features on this are great also, like Travis Scott on "Love Galore", which, you guessed it, is my favorite track on the whole album. His autotuned voice, which is not really a big deal for most part, because artists such as Kanye brung it to the main rap/rnb scene, and boy does it fit in with this track.

It also ends up being an empowering record for women, such as songs like "The Weekend" encouraging women to fit themselves outside the "side chick" stereotype. "Doves In The Wind" is another excellent song on here, which once again, doesn't really empower women, but rather serves as a song to make women feel good about themselves, since the theme is literally about a vagina. "Never even pushed for the pussy." is how, from my point of view, men are glued to the fact that they should have sex with women just because they want, sometimes just because the woman is physically attractive. But that's how I interpret it, that's me.


Finishing, the album is very honest in its own nature, and I guess that's SZA's thing, making basically every song comfortable and easy to hear. That's a 4.1/5 from me.


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lildump
June 1st 2018


1 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

1st review, also ignore the .r that i typed accidentally

CaliggyJack
June 2nd 2018


10037 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

"The internal struggles of a woman."



Yea



"Do I make a good Pop album or do I just say fuck it...? Either way I'm prolly getting nominated for a grammy!"



Pos tho

AsleepInTheBack
Staff Reviewer
June 2nd 2018


10094 Comments


"ignore the .r that i typed accidentally"

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