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- Summary: The debut full-length release for the New Jersey alternative R&B artist features guest appearances from James Fauntleroy, Kendrick Lamar, Isaiah Rashad, and Travis Scott.
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- Record Label: RCA
- Genre(s): R&B
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Love Galore | |
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I need, I need I need, I need I need, I need I need, I need I need, I need Love, love, love, love 'long as we got Love, love, love 'long as we... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 17 out of 17
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Mixed: 0 out of 17
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Negative: 0 out of 17
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Sep 26, 2023From start to finish, CTRL os nothing less than outstanding - the late arrival of a very important artist.
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Dec 14, 2017In Ctrl, SZA draws on her personal experience and explores women’s sexuality in a direct and honest way which was so far mostly reserved to male R&B and pop artists.
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Jul 25, 2017On Ctrl, SZA proves that you can be confident yet insecure, sexual yet crave affection and genuine connection, and empowered and still prone to falling for bad boys and all the drama that entails. SZA is the real deal and yet another example of how some of the most interesting, complex, sophisticated art being made today is being made by R&B artists.
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Jun 14, 2017The music is equal parts aching, brazen and gorgeously honest.
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Jul 19, 2017Ctrl is a languid, cavernously soulful debut that is never anything but assured--a collection of delicious jams that are equal parts fragile, cozy and piercing.
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Jun 28, 2017Featuring savage and often heartfelt, diary-like ruminations, CTRL pushes against the borders of convention lyrically and sonically, placing it on the upper echelons of potential ‘Best Of ’17’ lists.
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Sep 26, 2023Ctrl is a Facebook-photo album of opinions and behaviours that probably shouldn’t be broadcasted online. It’s also an assembly of tracks that prevail as mantras of self-affirmation, and it balances the two sides of its character with an awareness that feels like an accident, though it's welcomed all the same. But even if we disregard what it all means, these tracks are still jams, tunes, or any other blasé term people attach to music that you can throw away your dignity to.
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Positive: 76 out of 79
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Mixed: 2 out of 79
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Negative: 1 out of 79
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Jul 10, 2018SZA shows a beautiful range of colorful taste, and unique writing skills in her debut LP Ctrl.
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Jun 13, 2017
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Nov 3, 2020they don't make rnb albums like these anymore. sza , an icon of rnb truly. Ughhhhh mf queen!
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Aug 16, 2023
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Oct 14, 2019This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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