'CTRL' Review
- Oct 12, 2017
- 2 min read
Artist: SZA
Release Date: 09/06/17
Tracklist:
1. Supermodel
2. Love Galore (ft. Travis Scott)
3. Doves In The Wind (ft. Kendrick Lamar)
4. Drew Barrymore
5. Prom
6. The Weekend
7. Go Gina
8. Garden (Say It Like Dat)
9. Broken Clocks
10. Anything
11. Wavy (Interlude) (ft. James Fauntley)
12. Normal Girl
13. Pretty Little Birds (ft. Isiah Rashad)
14. 20 Something
‘The Weekend’ is my favourite song off the album and has probably been played every single day since I first heard the album. For me she has created a ‘forever banger’, a song I will forever listen to, even 10 years from now. Garden (Say It Like Dat) is also one of those tracks, when she says ‘lie to me and say my booty get big, even if it ain’t’ I really felt that, I truly did. I also catch myself saying the ‘skrr skrr’ from ‘Love Galore’ like her about 6 times a day.
Oh, Baby Girl! What magic you created with this album. The beats were perfectly picked, her voice along with the feature artists compliment them so well. The intro sets the whole tone for the album I believe—care-free but still calculated and passionate.
We hear the lines ‘let me tell you a secret/ I been secretly banging your homeboy/ Why you in Vegas all up on Valentines Day?' and you think Damn, is that what she's on? did that actually happen? And no she weren't telling a false tale. In her Entertainment Weekly interview in 2016 she said one song would be about her ex-boyfriend who left her on Valentine’s Day and her subsequently sleeping with his friend as revenge.
This album entails sexual freedom, the freedom to have sex with whomever you please (with consent though, please please) whether that be a boyfriend or a casual acquaintance and still not give a fuck . Love to Sza for this, in a time, where females are scrutinised for living an openly sexual life but males are somewhat praised for the same thing. The imbalance is improper and spurted by simpleminded misogynist people. So thank you for this album Sza.
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