SOS
by SZA

SOS by SZA
Year: 2022
Release date: 2022-12-09
Overall rank: 3,015th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 119 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2022 (37th)
Award Top albums of of the 2020s (183rd)
Award Best albums of all time (3,015th)

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SZA bestography

SOS is ranked 2nd best out of 5 albums by SZA on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by SZA is Ctrl which is ranked number 891 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,950.

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SOS track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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SOS rankings summary
Overall rank: 3,015th | 2020s rank: 183rd | 2022 rank: 37th  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 119 votes)
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From BestEverAlbums 12/09/2022 13:00 in Latest Releases (w\c 2022-12-05) (week 49, 2022)
Below are a list of new releases added to BEA for the week starting 2022-12-05 (3 albums) Albums released by artists in the top 1,000 this week are: (released 2022-12-09) Full list of this week's releases: (released 2022-12-06) (Compilation) (released 2022-12-09) (released 2022-12-09) If any…
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Shortlisted for album of the year at the 2024 Grammys. the winner was Midnights by Taylor Swift (Edited)
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From 09/01/2023 16:39 | #298931
This is another album to just not look at the BEA ratings on because this is not the type of record the people on this site will understand. (Edited)
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50/100
“SOS” is a big mess. The center of the album is filled with forgettable tracks. The themes of rejection and longing are muddled between the songs. It doesn’t help that a lot of the instrumentals stay in an unambitious blend of trap percussion and acoustic loops. It’s a chore to find the differences or grasp any signs of individual uniqueness. During this run, SZA also delivers some pretty weak melodies. The chorus on “Nobody gets me” sounds beleaguered and not in the intended way. Despite these shortcomings, there are some real highs. SZA’s voice remains full and lends a lot of pathos when in the right places. “Kill Bill” is a great song that uses dark humor to effectively communicate the desperation she is going through. “Good Days” has an absolutely sublime instrumental with an entrancing pentatonic scale. Its theme of embracing the present and moving forward has tremendous weight after listening through all the pining and regret of the record. While hearing Ol Dirty on “Forgiveless” was a treat, “Good Days” should have been the closer. “SOS” needed less for its strengths to truly shine.
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Rating:  
90/100
Come on, what on earth is the point of clogging up these comment sections with a copy paste of the album's tracklist? With or without your personal rating of each song, it just goes against the design of the website.
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