When your parents regulate everything you hear and everything you intake, it forces you to get creative in other ways. It sparked the writing bug and the very overactive imagination. Because I’ve had a lot of time by myself and a lot of time isolated from regular culture, I created my own.
SZAPeople grapple with labeling me as hip-hop, R&B, or pop, and it’s interesting to me. I’m just making music.
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Especially when I’m nervous, my mind is running a mile a minute. My ADHD speaks for me before I can speak for me.
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It’s so hard for me to focus on things for a long time that I’m not incredibly passionate about.
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I always used to be like, ‘I don’t need to meditate.’ And it’s not true.
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Desperately yearning to accept its all as it should be.
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People grapple with labeling me as hip-hop, R&B, or pop, and it’s interesting to me. I’m just making music.
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I just make music however I feel and pray that it connects, and if it does, I’m super thankful. I think genres are more for other people, not for yourself.
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I love folk. I love rap.
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I was a funky kid.
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My anxiety stems from my lack of control no matter what.
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I just think I have too much anxiety to listen to music. Sometimes it feels like noise, and sometimes it’s so affecting that I can’t recover from it.
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Every season is my season.
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I’ve been known to wear pajamas onstage for the sole reason of wanting to make sure I’m free enough to execute new things vocally on stage and give my best performance possible.
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I made this and have too much to say about it.
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I feel like every outfit I have ever planned ahead is trash.
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It starts with trusting yourself, even if people are telling you you’re too young to trust yourself.
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