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There is a very confusing section in the introduction.
> Before SOS, SZA had been known as an R&B artist who made "sad girl" music, a narrative she wanted to dispel because she viewed it as reductive. She found the R&B categorization in particular racially insensitive. As such, she wanted to experiment with "aggressive" hip hop music for SOS, leading to the conception of "Smoking on My Ex Pack".
She finds being categorized as an R&B artist as racist, so now she wants to make more rap/Hip hop music. But rap/Hip hop is also stereotypically black music. So how does any of that make sense? Am I missing something? - Rooiratel ( talk) 07:47, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
I feel like that’s super disrespectful, because people are just like, ‘Oh, ’cause you’re Black, this is what you have to be’ — like, put in a box. And I hate that.But we are not here to discuss her views---merely to work on the article content---peculiar as you claim her said views are. Either way, I have reworded the lead to make her intended message clearer. Elias 🌊 💬 " Will you call me?"
Is the external link section really necessary? The only thing linked in it is the lyric video of the song which is already linked in the infobox. 2001:2020:319:7C8A:65E3:D5B5:1DD0:63C2 ( talk) 10:22, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
Perhaps somebody could explain in this article what the title of this song actually means? Because it's complete jibberish to me and I would hazard to guess that I'm not the only reader for whom that is true. Ieneach fan 'e Esk ( talk) 23:23, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
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There is a very confusing section in the introduction.
> Before SOS, SZA had been known as an R&B artist who made "sad girl" music, a narrative she wanted to dispel because she viewed it as reductive. She found the R&B categorization in particular racially insensitive. As such, she wanted to experiment with "aggressive" hip hop music for SOS, leading to the conception of "Smoking on My Ex Pack".
She finds being categorized as an R&B artist as racist, so now she wants to make more rap/Hip hop music. But rap/Hip hop is also stereotypically black music. So how does any of that make sense? Am I missing something? - Rooiratel ( talk) 07:47, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
I feel like that’s super disrespectful, because people are just like, ‘Oh, ’cause you’re Black, this is what you have to be’ — like, put in a box. And I hate that.But we are not here to discuss her views---merely to work on the article content---peculiar as you claim her said views are. Either way, I have reworded the lead to make her intended message clearer. Elias 🌊 💬 " Will you call me?"
Is the external link section really necessary? The only thing linked in it is the lyric video of the song which is already linked in the infobox. 2001:2020:319:7C8A:65E3:D5B5:1DD0:63C2 ( talk) 10:22, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
Perhaps somebody could explain in this article what the title of this song actually means? Because it's complete jibberish to me and I would hazard to guess that I'm not the only reader for whom that is true. Ieneach fan 'e Esk ( talk) 23:23, 8 November 2023 (UTC)