The Long Road to ‘Lana’: Why SZA Took Two Years to Drop the ‘SOS’ Deluxe Album

In most cases, deluxe albums are intended as a chart-focused second wind for their parent albums, and usually have just a handful of extra tracks — remixes, leftovers, maybe a hot new single to give an extra boost — while the artist is saving the more-promising new material for their next proper album.

Not SZA.

“Lana” — the title for the long-delayed deluxe edition of her 2022 blockbuster “SOS,” which finally dropped on Friday afternoon — has had a long and convoluted history, morphing and changing every step of the way over the two years since she first began talking about it, shortly after the release of the parent

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