The Making of SZA's 'SOS'
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🗓️ 29 January 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone, Music Now. |
| 0:05.0 | A couple weeks ago on this podcast, we talk with Siza about her great album, SOS, which came |
| 0:11.6 | out at the end of last year, |
| 0:13.0 | Maca Burakante joined me for that conversation. |
| 0:15.0 | If you missed it, you should definitely go check it out. |
| 0:18.0 | And S-O-S is still at the top of the charts that spent six weeks at number one. |
| 0:22.0 | And I'm not surprised. |
| 0:24.0 | It's a pretty triumphant pop album. |
| 0:25.0 | She does everything on it. |
| 0:26.0 | There's big rock songs, big pop moments, |
| 0:29.0 | great R&B songs. |
| 0:30.0 | It turns out she raps really well. |
| 0:32.0 | It's a pretty complete experience. |
| 0:34.3 | So I thought we dig back into the making of SOS and talk with three of SIS's collaborators. |
| 0:39.2 | To start out, we'll hear from the producer-songwriter Rodney Jurgens, who is of course a total legend he's worked with |
| 0:44.5 | Beyoncé and Michael Jackson and a million other people we've spoken to him before in this |
| 0:48.8 | podcast and then we'll talk with Rob Beisel who engineered the whole album and also made the leap to |
| 0:53.5 | producer and songwriter on a bunch of tracks. And finally we'll hear from |
| 0:57.1 | another key collaborator Carter Lang who played with Siz Alive, worked on her previous album Control, as well as this one. |
| 1:05.3 | He is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer. |
| 1:08.8 | He's also worked with Omar Apollo, Post Malone, Mac Miller, and a bunch of other people. But again, to start our journey through |
| 1:15.8 | the making of S. S. S. S. S. Let's hear from Rodney Jerkins. |
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