Once upon a time, years prior to she was just one of Spotify’s most streamed musicians of 2023, SZA had no option yet to turn over her tune “Consideration” to a musician that was a much larger celebrity at the time — Rihanna, that wound up making use of the track on her 2016 cd Anti. And though it was difficult to approve in the beginning, the “Kill Bill” vocalist currently claims she’s happy it occurred.
“I cared so much,” SZA mirrored in a video clip meeting with Variety released Wednesday (Nov. 29). “I was so, just, frustrated. And I felt like, ‘I’ll never have anything this cool again.’ I’ll never make anything this cool again, and that was so crazy and so wrong.”
SZA had actually tape-recorded “Consideration” for her 2017 cd Ctrl and also recorded a video for the track, she informed the magazine. Days prior to its launch, nevertheless, she claims Rihanna asked to have the tune for Anti and settlements were made without SZA recognizing. “It was already done,” the Grammy champion remembered. “Whatever the conversation, label-wise, was already done. It was just a matter of accepting.”
“[The song] was like the centerpiece to my album at the time,” she included. “And for her, it was just, like, part of her album. And I was like, ‘Please, no.’”
“Consideration” wound up working as the opening track on Anti, with SZA billed as a highlighted musician whose voice can be listened to singing the tune’s refrain in between Ri’s knowledgeables. The direct exposure she obtained from the switcheroo became a true blessing in camouflage, however, as tough a tablet as it might have been to ingest in the beginning.
“Now I’m so glad that that happened, and that it didn’t cost me anything,” SZA stated. “If anything, I gained a bunch from it. And I thank God that I made cool music outside of that. I don’t know why I just really thought my creativity would just stop, and this was the pinnacle of what I could make.”
Watch SZA’s Variety meeting over.
