# SOS Deluxe: Lana
**SOS Deluxe: Lana** (also written SOS Deluxe: LANA, and often shortened to *Lana*) is the reissue of *SOS* (2022), the second studio album by the American singer-songwriter SZA. It was released on December 20, 2024, through [Top Dawg Entertainment](https://www.edgepedia.org/top-dawg-entertainment) and [RCA Records](https://www.edgepedia.org/rca-records), adding 15 new tracks to the original 23-track album.[1](https://sza.fandom.com/wiki/SOS_Deluxe%3A_Lana) • [2](https://thebottomline.as.ucsb.edu/2025/02/szas-sos-deluxe-lana-just-works/) A further expanded version followed on February 9, 2025, with four additional songs, bringing the combined release to 42 tracks.[3](https://stereogum.com/2296307/sza-has-finally-released-the-deluxe-sos-deluxe/music) • [4](https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/sza-sos-deluxe-lana-review-3836877)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Type | Reissue and expanded edition of *SOS* (2022), SZA's second studio album[1](https://sza.fandom.com/wiki/SOS_Deluxe%3A_Lana) |
| Release | December 20, 2024, at 3 p.m. EST after last-minute mixing changes; Top Dawg Entertainment / RCA Records[1](https://sza.fandom.com/wiki/SOS_Deluxe%3A_Lana) • [5](https://www.thefader.com/2024/12/20/listen-to-szas-new-album-lana) |
| Size | 15 new tracks on release, for 38 total; a February 2025 update added four more, for 42[2](https://thebottomline.as.ucsb.edu/2025/02/szas-sos-deluxe-lana-just-works/) • [3](https://stereogum.com/2296307/sza-has-finally-released-the-deluxe-sos-deluxe/music) |
| Notable tracks | "Drive", "Saturn", "30 for 30" (with Kendrick Lamar), "Kitchen", "Scorsese Baby Daddy", "BMF", "My Turn"[6](https://cdn-p.smehost.net/sites/8e1f40b762984a27a20f577d99b7ac97/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SZA_Lana_122024.pdf) |
| Chart performance | Returned to #1 on the Billboard 200 in its 11th total week at the top, and led the Top R&B Albums, Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and Top Streaming Albums charts[7](https://cdn-p.smehost.net/sites/8e1f40b762984a27a20f577d99b7ac97/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SZA_1-Billboard-200_-Lana.pdf) |
| Critical reception | Pitchfork rated it 8.8 and named it Best New Music, calling it worthy of being considered a third SZA album[8](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sza-sos-deluxe-lana/) |
| Title origin | "Lana" is a nickname SZA, born Solána Imani Rowe, has had since childhood[5](https://www.thefader.com/2024/12/20/listen-to-szas-new-album-lana) |
## Background
Soon after the release of *SOS* in December 2022, SZA began teasing a deluxe edition in a postscript to an Instagram post thanking the people who helped make the album. She told *Most Requested Live* in January 2023 and *Billboard* in February that the tracklist comprised about ten songs originally intended for the standard edition.[1](https://sza.fandom.com/wiki/SOS_Deluxe%3A_Lana) In her October 2023 *Rolling Stone* cover story she announced a deluxe version called *Lana* consisting of 10 new songs, with no release date set; by then she had released one song from the project, "Saturn".[9](https://time.com/6548832/most-anticipated-albums-of-2024/)
**Leaks changed the plan.** Snippets from the *SOS* sessions, such as the [SoundCloud](https://www.edgepedia.org/soundcloud) release "Joni" (2021), had circulated online for years, and fans pressed for the inclusion of awaited outtakes, which the president of her label, Punch, resisted. In an angry social-media post, SZA announced that because three songs had leaked, she would release them and other tracks as a deluxe edition of *SOS* after all, and that she would start *Lana* over "from scratch".[1](https://sza.fandom.com/wiki/SOS_Deluxe%3A_Lana) • [10](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/long-road-lana-why-sza-001430871.html) She also added songs recorded after *SOS*, among them the 2023-recorded "Diamond Boy (DTM)".[1](https://sza.fandom.com/wiki/SOS_Deluxe%3A_Lana)
At a free concert at the [Brooklyn Navy Yard](https://www.edgepedia.org/brooklyn-navy-yard) on September 8, 2023, SZA described the project as "a whole 'nother album".[2](https://thebottomline.as.ucsb.edu/2025/02/szas-sos-deluxe-lana-just-works/) In November 2023 she told *British Vogue*-adjacent interviews that she wanted the new music to "glide" rather than scream, and in November 2024 she told *Vogue* she was "making music from a more beautiful place... versus a more angsty place".[11](https://vanguard.bbns.org/4012/opinions/i-love-lana/) • [5](https://www.thefader.com/2024/12/20/listen-to-szas-new-album-lana)
## Release and promotion
SZA announced the December 20, 2024 release date alongside a snippet of the music video for "Drive" featuring [Ben Stiller](https://www.edgepedia.org/ben-stiller).[12](https://magazine.weverse.io/article/view/1323?lang=%EC%84%B1%EA%B3%B5%ED%95%98%EB%8B%88+%EC%97%B0%EB%9D%BD%ED%95%98%EB%8A%94) On December 10, marking the second anniversary of *SOS*, she posted a trailer set to a track sampling the Isley Brothers' "Voyage to Atlantis", later revealed as "Kitchen".[1](https://sza.fandom.com/wiki/SOS_Deluxe%3A_Lana) The album did not appear on streaming services until 3 p.m. EST on release day, after last-minute mixing issues forced her team to work overtime.[5](https://www.thefader.com/2024/12/20/listen-to-szas-new-album-lana)
The "Drive" video, directed by Bradley Calder, stars Ben Stiller lip-syncing in an SUV on a nighttime road trip before taking an extraterrestrial turn.[6](https://cdn-p.smehost.net/sites/8e1f40b762984a27a20f577d99b7ac97/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SZA_Lana_122024.pdf) • [13](https://themusicreview.com/2024/12/22/sza-is-introspective-unapologetically-defiant-in-the-long-awaited-sos-deluxe-lana/) The cover art, shared on December 18, shows SZA as a streetwear-clad alien ant creature.[5](https://www.thefader.com/2024/12/20/listen-to-szas-new-album-lana)
**Commercial performance.** In early January 2025 the expanded *SOS* returned to #1 on the [Billboard](https://www.edgepedia.org/billboard-magazine) 200, its 11th total week atop the chart, and simultaneously led the Top R&B Albums, Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and Top Streaming Albums charts.[7](https://cdn-p.smehost.net/sites/8e1f40b762984a27a20f577d99b7ac97/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SZA_1-Billboard-200_-Lana.pdf) The parent album *SOS* had spent nearly two years on the Billboard 200, was RIAA-certified 5x Platinum, and had won three [Grammy Awards](https://www.edgepedia.org/grammy-awards), including Best Progressive R&B Album.[6](https://cdn-p.smehost.net/sites/8e1f40b762984a27a20f577d99b7ac97/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SZA_Lana_122024.pdf) "Saturn" received Grammy nominations for Best R&B Song and Best R&B Performance.[6](https://cdn-p.smehost.net/sites/8e1f40b762984a27a20f577d99b7ac97/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SZA_Lana_122024.pdf)
## Music and themes
The new tracks continue the themes of *SOS*, love, self-worth, heartbreak, and self-realization, but with a softer, more optimistic outlook. The opener "No More Hiding" sets the tone with the lines "No more hiding / I wanna feel the sun on my skin / Even if it burns and blinds me".[11](https://vanguard.bbns.org/4012/opinions/i-love-lana/) "Kitchen" samples the Isley Brothers' "Voyage to Atlantis" in the style of 1970s soul ballads, while "BMF" interpolates the [Stan Getz](https://www.edgepedia.org/stan-getz) and [Astrud Gilberto](https://www.edgepedia.org/astrud-gilberto) rendition of "The Girl from Ipanema".[13](https://themusicreview.com/2024/12/22/sza-is-introspective-unapologetically-defiant-in-the-long-awaited-sos-deluxe-lana/) • [14](https://music.apple.com/us/album/sos-deluxe-lana/1796270264) "My Turn" is a revenge anthem less violent than *SOS*'s "Kill Bill" but similarly twisted, and "30 for 30" features [Kendrick Lamar](https://www.edgepedia.org/kendrick-lamar), the album's only guest on the December 2024 edition.[8](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sza-sos-deluxe-lana/) • [15](https://www.cornellsun.com/article/2025/01/new-year-new-sza-a-review-on-szas-sos-deluxe-lana)
Critics noted a stylistic shift from the genre-hopping of *SOS* toward a more coherent, mellow palette of warm analog synths and soul-ballad tempos, closer in tone to her 2017 debut *Ctrl*. Pitchfork's Shaad D'Souza wrote that the 15 new songs "balance the ambling indie R&B of CTRL and the forthright hooks of SOS" and that, played on their own, they could "proudly" be called a third SZA album.[8](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sza-sos-deluxe-lana/) [Anthony Fantano](https://www.edgepedia.org/anthony-fantano), reviewing the album in January 2025, rated it 7/10 and observed that it felt more like a separate album than typical deluxe additions, while noting that the consistently mellow production could cause tracks to blend together.[16](https://rosetta.to/u/theneedledrop/topic/social-media)
## The deluxe-of-a-deluxe question
The rollout drew commentary on what a deluxe edition should be. After the 2024 release added 15 tracks, an additional four were appended in February 2025 when the deluxe itself was reissued: "Joni" featuring [Don Toliver](https://www.edgepedia.org/don-toliver), "Take You Down", a solo version of the [Travis Scott](https://www.edgepedia.org/travis-scott) collaboration "Open Arms", and "PSA".[3](https://stereogum.com/2296307/sza-has-finally-released-the-deluxe-sos-deluxe/music) NME's review described the project, now standing at 42 tracks, as less an era than a transition, and suggested *Lana* might have been stronger as a mixtape.[4](https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/sza-sos-deluxe-lana-review-3836877)
SZA supported the album on the [Grand National Tour](https://www.edgepedia.org/grand-national-tour) with Kendrick Lamar, covering 19 stadiums across North America in 2025.[6](https://cdn-p.smehost.net/sites/8e1f40b762984a27a20f577d99b7ac97/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SZA_Lana_122024.pdf)
## References
1. [SOS Deluxe: Lana, SZA Wiki (Fandom)](https://sza.fandom.com/wiki/SOS_Deluxe%3A_Lana)
2. [SZA's "SOS" Deluxe: "LANA" Just Works, The Bottom Line (UCSB)](https://thebottomline.as.ucsb.edu/2025/02/szas-sos-deluxe-lana-just-works/)
3. [SZA Has Finally Released The Deluxe SOS Deluxe, Stereogum](https://stereogum.com/2296307/sza-has-finally-released-the-deluxe-sos-deluxe/music)
4. [SZA – 'SOS Deluxe: Lana' review, NME](https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/sza-sos-deluxe-lana-review-3836877)
5. [Listen to SZA's new album SOS Deluxe: Lana, The FADER](https://www.thefader.com/2024/12/20/listen-to-szas-new-album-lana)
6. [SZA Releases the Long-Awaited SOS Deluxe: LANA, TDE press release (PDF)](https://cdn-p.smehost.net/sites/8e1f40b762984a27a20f577d99b7ac97/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SZA_Lana_122024.pdf)
7. [SZA Returns to #1 on Multiple Billboard Charts with SOS Deluxe: LANA, TDE press release (PDF)](https://cdn-p.smehost.net/sites/8e1f40b762984a27a20f577d99b7ac97/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SZA_1-Billboard-200_-Lana.pdf)
8. [SZA: SOS Deluxe: Lana Album Review, Pitchfork](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sza-sos-deluxe-lana/)
9. [The Most Anticipated Albums of 2024, TIME](https://time.com/6548832/most-anticipated-albums-of-2024/)
10. [The Long Road to 'Lana': Why SZA Took Two Years to Drop the 'SOS' Deluxe Album, Yahoo Entertainment](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/long-road-lana-why-sza-001430871.html)
11. [I love 'LANA', The Vanguard](https://vanguard.bbns.org/4012/opinions/i-love-lana/)
12. [SZA announces the release date of the deluxe version of 'SOS', Weverse Magazine](https://magazine.weverse.io/article/view/1323?lang=%EC%84%B1%EA%B3%B5%ED%95%98%EB%8B%88+%EC%97%B0%EB%9D%BD%ED%95%98%EB%8A%94)
13. [SZA Is Introspective & Unapologetically Defiant in the Long-Awaited SOS Deluxe: LANA, The Music Review](https://themusicreview.com/2024/12/22/sza-is-introspective-unapologetically-defiant-in-the-long-awaited-sos-deluxe-lana/)
14. [SOS Deluxe: LANA, Apple Music](https://music.apple.com/us/album/sos-deluxe-lana/1796270264)
15. [New Year, New SZA: 'SOS Deluxe: LANA', The Cornell Daily Sun](https://www.cornellsun.com/article/2025/01/new-year-new-sza-a-review-on-szas-sos-deluxe-lana)
16. [theneedledrop on Social Media, Rosetta](https://rosetta.to/u/theneedledrop/topic/social-media)
---
*Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Music › Musical works and recordings › Albums and recorded releases › Remix albums, reissues, remasters, and rarities*
*Initially written Sep 17, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026*
*Copyright 2026 EdgeChat AI, a subsidiary of Biostate AI.*
License: Edgepedia Community License 1.0, https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license