I thought it was going to be released December 15th

SZA doesn’t shave her legs. She says so on Ctrl, twice. 

First it’s “I’m sorry I don’t shave my legs at night” in “Drew Barrymore,” and then “I wanna shave my legs for you” in “Pretty Little Birds.” 

She confirms the fact in an interview with Vulture: “I don’t shave my legs! It’s just … I can’t. That just came from factual life. I never, ever do it. I think it’s bizarre to shave them. But, if I really like you, and like, you touch my legs, maybe I want to be kind of smooth for you.”

Besides being an analogy about not being enough and then wanting to be enough, SZA talking about not shaving her legs is just one example of SZA exposing herself on this album, and a timid one at that. She airs out her insecurities, puts her dirty laundry on the line, admits to cheating on her boyfriend with his best friend while he’s out at an orgy in Vegas in an open letter in the first track, and whatever else.

I didn’t like SOS as much as I liked Ctrl. It didn’t feel as much like an album to me, less of a story. SZA’s Ctrl has stayed on the Billboard 200 for the past six years, the second-longest charting R&B album by a woman, behind Rihanna’s Anti (which SZA also wrote “Consideration” for?). It feels like she reached into women’s heads and pulled our emotional brains out of our skulls and wrung them out and made sweet ear honey with them.

At the Grammys before SOS was released, SZA mentioned that her sophomore album is complete. A “unisex album,” “something for everybody.” Ctrl does feel like a woman’s experience. Insecurity, the pitfalls of romance, dealing with narcissistic, cryptic, lying, shitty guys that kinda tug you along, you know.

All I know is I didn’t like SOS as much. I still liked it–a lot–but not quite as much as Ctrl. But where is LANA?