SZA recently chatted with British Vogue, opening up about her early years, meteoric rise to fame, and more. One of the highlights during the interview was her revealing how “scared” she was to headline London’s annual Glastonbury festival. The Ctrl singer became the second woman to headline the three-day festival, after Beyonce in 2011. “I just felt like nothing I could do would be enough for Glastonbury, no matter what I did,” she told the outlet.
“It scared me. I was like, well, I wish I wasn’t doing it, but I couldn’t walk away from it…” She continued: “I want to be the second Black woman in history, but then it’s such a f*cking tall order. It’s like, no matter what you do here, you will be subject to criticism. Because of who you are. But that’s life. That’s life, you know?”
“I’m not identifying with my brokenness,” sza Says
The singer also opened up about her upcoming album, Lana. She describes working on the project as a “welcome shift” in her life. In SZA’s opinion, she’s making music from a more “beautiful place” than in years past. “I’m not identifying with my brokenness. It’s not my identity. It’s shit 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.”
The singer also talked about how yoga and meditation have grounded her. “You don’t have to imagine anything is happening to you. In that weird stillness, something arrives at you every time.” She also revealed why she doesn’t let the critics get to her: “Even the commentary, it’s like, you just gotta let that happen. That’s part of it. That’s part of this moment in time.”
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