SZA‘s debut album dropped on Friday and managed to vault over the massive expectations the world had built up for it. CTRL is an immediate contender for the best R&B album of the year, the sort of smash that is so undeniable that even the cultivated personas of celebrities had to fall so they could geek out for a second.
Everybody on Earth was listening to SZA’s debut this weekend. There might not be a single person on this rock who felt the album more than Diddy.
DIS SHIT DONT MAKE NO SENSE IM SCREAMING😩🙏🏾 @diddy BLESS U https://t.co/Yav5XktxVm
— SZA (@sza) June 11, 2017
But that didn’t stop people from making their feelings known. Everyone was vibing to SZA’s debut over the weekend:
Listening to @SZA's song The Weekend from her new #CTRL album like https://t.co/V3LNAVtTej
— Matthew A. Cherry (@MatthewACherry) June 9, 2017
Fans ranged from last year’s sudden critical darling Anderson .Paak:
https://twitter.com/AndersonPaak/status/873147008579760129
On down to Insecure mastermind Issa Rae:
CTRL makes me wish I had a bathtub, weed, candles and a temporary nigga.
— Issa Rae (@IssaRae) June 11, 2017
SZA even returned some of the love:
Thank you for making me laugh about the same shit I cried over making this ❤
— SZA (@sza) June 11, 2017
The Youtubers were all over it:
singing sza to my uber driver
— Maddi Bragg (@MaddiBragg) June 11, 2017
Everyone from Top 40 songwriters to teenage rappers and internet sensations found something to love in CTRL:
https://twitter.com/oliviagobrien/status/873153013690490881
New @sza 🔥🔥🔥🔥 proud of u luv!
— CONCRETE BOY BOAT^ (@lilyachty) June 9, 2017
Wow @sza album is amazing.. damn
— SuperDuperKyle! (@SuperDuperKyle) June 10, 2017
@sza did your thing on that album
— FERG (@ASAPferg) June 12, 2017
https://twitter.com/tydollasign/status/873370151827025920
s/o to @sza for the weird killer floaty colourful melodies every. single. time.
— ac (@alessiacara) June 9, 2017
For some of her fellow artists, there were no words:
https://twitter.com/internetsyd/status/873380492439113728
Olympians had to show respect:
never loved a girl like i love sza
— mckayla (@McKaylaMaroney) June 10, 2017
Soon-to-be Harry Styles openers Muna had few words:
ctrl
— MUNA (@whereisMUNA) June 12, 2017
when sza said "love to my ladies, i dated a few" pic.twitter.com/fIrMuBIQG7
— MUNA (@whereisMUNA) June 12, 2017
The man behind one of the smoothest songs of 2016 had to chime in:
nostalgia hit me so hard @sza thank you for this pic.twitter.com/O01hy8BTdd
— Khalid (@thegreatkhalid) June 9, 2017
As did a perennial Song of the Summer contender:
https://twitter.com/CalvinHarris/status/873336597634203648
Kehlani is ready for SZA’s moment:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BVIJHdcAeVq/?taken-by=kehlani&hl=en
And Snapchat showed how the album soundtracked people’s weekends:
https://twitter.com/DailySZA/status/874022316728045569
https://twitter.com/DailySZA/status/874061856419217408
But perhaps nothing shows how huge CTRL is better than Mr. Twitter himself had to take a second to tell the world about it:
Amazing album https://t.co/9RVxkeaGCI
— jack (@jack) June 11, 2017
That’s like the 2017 equivalent of knowing Tom in real life. And SZA’s debut deserves every ounce of the praise. Stream it below and keep your eyes glued to this space for our review:
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