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SZA's Endless Melody

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SZA's Neverending Melodies

The cover is her on a diving board, maybe photoshopped onto the ocean. You do get the sense that this album starts with her standing out of distress signal and then diving in. She's singing melodies that are running away from those sounds or maybe chasing something trying to go somewhere. It's like she sings on the track shirt: Feeling lost, but I like it. These sounds are ones of danger, some of healing. There's anxiety in the air. A depth charge. When we listen to a song like Notice Me, we hear one of these melodies that meanders, that doesn't travel where you expect it to.

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