Album Review: SZA - Lana
I know you’ve told stories about me. Most of them awful—all of them true For a number of years, I had a job that was good until it wasn’t. And, I mean, that’s how it often goes, doesn’t it? Something works until it no longer doesn’t, and there is really no way to go back to how it was or what it was like before. The pandemic, certainly, had a lot to do with it—when things were no longer working. When the job was good until it wasn’t. But, nobody wants to hear your pandemic story. Not now. Maybe it’s not entirely too soon for people to feel like they could recount their experiences but it is perhaps too soon for people to wish to listen. And it doesn’t make you special. No, not really. Your belief that you have a unique perspective, or genuinely interesting story to share about your life beginning in March of 2020. Our lives were similar but they also were not. Our existence were the same but no they weren’t. We stayed inside. We climbed the walls. We lost our minds....