Reducing an album as expansive and multifaceted as SOS to “side chick anthems” undermines SZA’s creative genius.
It's telling signs include being written by a woman and containing the slightest lyrical suggestion of spurned love. Zealots preemptively sound the alarm every time one of these heartbreak laureates announce a new album: “ready to cry to new music” and “hot girl summer is over, enter sad girl fall” are among the common declarations.
Frankly, it’s a silly argument. That SZA is a human being with an emotional reality that she mines into artistic endeavors is more of an indication of her savvy as a musician and songwriter than it is anything else. But, this idea that we should only ever engage with art that speaks directly to our personal states of mind also does a disservice to both the creator and listener.
The repulsion towards music that doesn’t directly speak to our specific point of view inevitably stifles the desire to engage with any kind of art in good faith. With that logic, why bother to read or watch anything except your own diary or the videos in your own camera roll? Is art only valuable as far as it extends to our own personal machinations and narratives?to “side chick anthems” undermines SZA’s creative genius.
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