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\u201cI fucked up,\u201d<\/strong> SZA tells me.<\/p>\n It\u2019s been about a month and a half since the singer returned home to Los Angeles after wrapping her first international co-headlining stadium tour. It was the capper to an exemplary 2025 that included costarring in her first feature film and a single that spent 13 consecutive weeks at the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100\u2014a run that began shortly after she appeared in February\u2019s Super Bowl halftime show. She\u2019s been in go mode for the majority of the year. How then, after finally coming off the road in August, did she downshift and decompress?<\/p>\n Dress and scarf by Dolce & Gabbana. Shoes by Gianvito Rossi. Ring (on right index finger) by Kallati. All other jewelry, her own.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n She didn\u2019t, and therein lies where she fucked up. \u201cI had no comedown,\u201d SZA, born Sol\u00e1na Imani Rowe, says in a tone that registers as half-amused, half-disappointed in herself. \u201cI came back and I just went right into some bullshit. I don\u2019t know why I\u2019m back in the studio making a whole other album, just doing a whole bunch of shit. Spending time outside of my house for days at a time. I feel so frazzled.\u201d<\/p>\n Nighttime is falling over Burbank as SZA\u2014in comfy blue track pants, red curls blanketing her face, the first of several joints she will smoke tonight nestled between her fingers\u2014settles into a plush sectional at her recording studio. Walking through an arched door and into the oasis of the studio is akin to passing through one of those secret doors in Narnia.<\/em> Outside, it\u2019s an otherwise drab block surrounded by warehouses and storage facilities, but once you step over the threshold you may as well be in paradise: Wood-paneled walls, walkways adorned with greenery, and \u201970s soul playing softly come together to create tranquility and stillness. Despite the quiet, you can still feel the industriousness of the space: Lattes and ginger teas for late-night sessions are being brewed; musicians materialize to work out a guitar melody in the common room before disappearing back into the booth.<\/p>\n Beyond a couple more gates is the studio room that has been SZA\u2019s home away from home when she\u2019s not getting into pointedly undefined \u201cbullshit.\u201d Recording sessions notwithstanding, she has no immediate plans to release another album anytime soon, maybe not even in 2026 at all. But she wanted to meet here because this is just where she is these days, seeking respite from that frazzled energy\u2014or, more likely, harnessing it\u2014and trying to figure out what comes next after the biggest year in her career.<\/p>\n \u201cIt feels like the culmination of everything\u2014everything I\u2019ve worked towards in my career in one year,\u201d SZA says, pensively, of 2025, a year in which she neither released nor promoted an entirely new record. \u201cIt didn\u2019t come after I dropped an album, so it felt weird. I didn\u2019t know how to place it. I\u2019m like, Why am I getting these accolades? What\u2019s going on?<\/em> It was just so random. But I\u2019m still grateful. I\u2019m just trying to process it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.gq.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cI fucked up,\u201d SZA tells me. It\u2019s been about a month and a half since the singer returned home to Los Angeles after wrapping her first international co-headlining stadium tour. 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