SOS / SZA (2022)

最近のフィメール R&B にしては、「歌」ものです。
極端に言うとメロディがないものが多いので。
そいう意味で好感が持てます。

歌詞は全部は分かりませんが、至って痛み、孤独、怒りなどを表現した曲が多いように思います。
で、"SOS" なのかな？

一番面白いのは、ヒットした "Kill Bill" ですね。
元カレを殺しそう、いや殺しちゃった、的な歌詞ですが、メロディとサウンドがクールで素敵。
PV がタランティーノの "Kill Bill" ばり、かつ特撮映画やアニメ映画のパロディが入っていてイカしてます。

アルバム全体のサウンド的には、電子的に作り込んだ曲もあれば、オーガニックなアレンジのものもあり、結構幅が広い。
2017年のファーストアルバムから5年ぶりなので、その間紆余曲折があったんでしょうね。
曲の振れ幅に、悩みの幅が重なるようです。

1. SOS
• Writer : Solána Rowe, Jahlil Gunter, Rob Bisel, Gabriel Samuel Hardeman
• Producer : Jay Versace
2. Kill Bill
• Writer : Rowe, Bisel, Carter Lang
• Producer : Lang, Bisel
3. Seek & Destroy
• Writer : Rowe, Bisel, Cody Fayne, Tyran Donaldson, Lang
• Producer : Bisel, Lang, Scum, ThankGod4Cody
4. Low
• Writer : Rowe, Bisel, Alessandro Buccellati, Joseph Pincus, Jocelyn A. Donald
• Producer : Bisel, Buccellati, Aire Atlantica
5. Love Language
• Writer : Rowe, Fayne, Lang, Jakob Rabitsch, Anthony Clemons, Jr., Bisel, Pharrell Williams, Tyrone Griffin, Chad Hugo, Jazzaé De Waal
• Producer : Yakob, Lang, ThankGod4CodyBisel
6. Blind
• Writer : Rowe, Bisel, Lang, Margaux Alexis Rosalena Whitney, Will Miller
• Producer : Bisel, Lang, Miller, Yuli
7. Used (featuring Don Toliver)
• Writer : Rowe, Dacoury Natche, Ely Rise, Danny McKinnon, John Key, Caleb Toliver, John Hill
• Producer : DJ Dahi, McKinnon, Rise, Key, Bisel
8. Snooze
• Writer : Rowe, Kenneth Edmonds, Khristopher Riddick-Tynes, Leon Thomas III, Blair Ferguson
• Producer : Babyface, The Rascals, BLK
9. Notice Me
• Writer : Rowe, Teo Halm, Michael Uzowuru, Bisel, Lang, Fayne
• Producer : Halm, Uzowuru, Bisel, Lang, ThankGod4Cody
10. Gone Girl
• Writer : Rowe, Jeff Bhasker, Emile Haynie, Bisel, Lang, Fayne
• Producer : Bhasker, Haynie, Bisel, Lang, ThankGod4Cody
11. Smoking on My Ex Pack
• Writer : Rowe, Clarence Scarborough, Raina Taylor, Gunter
• Producer : Jay Versace
12. Ghost in the Machine (featuring Phoebe Bridgers)
• Writer : Rowe, Phoebe Bridgers, Bisel, Lang, Matt Cohn, Marshall Vore
• Producer : Bisel, Lang, Cohn, Ethan Gruska, Tony Berg
13. F2F
• Writer : Rowe, Melissa Jefferson, Bisel, Lang
• Producer : Bisel, Lang
14. Nobody Gets Me
• Writer : Rowe, Benjamin Levin, Bisel, Lang
• Producer : Benny Blanco, Bisel, Lang
15. Conceited
• Writer : Rowe, Fayne, Bisel
• Producer : ThankGod4Cody
16. Special
• Writer : Rowe, Levin, Bisel, Blake Slatkin, Johan Schuster, Omer Fedi
• Producer : Benny Blanco, Slatkin, Fedi, Shellback
17. Too Late
• Writer : Rowe, Sven Gamsky, Samuel Witte, Bisel, Lang, Fayne
• Producer : Still Woozy, Witte, Bisel, Lang, ThankGod4Cody
18. Far
• Writer : Rowe, Bisel, Lang, Carlos Muñoz, Eliot Dubock, Donaldson
• Producer : Bisel, Lang, Los Hendrix, Beat Butcha, Scum
19. Shirt
• Writer : Rowe, Rodney Jerkins, Robert Gueringer
• Producer : Darkchild, Freaky Rob
20. Open Arms (featuring Travis Scott)
• Writer : Rowe, Jacques Webster II, Halm, Uzowuru, Bisel, Douglas Ford
• Producer : Halm, Uzowuru, Bisel
21. I Hate U
• Writer : Rowe, Bisel, Lang, Fayne, Dylan Patrice
• Producer : Bisel, Lang, ThankGod4Cody, Sir Dylan
22. Good Days
• Writer : Rowe, Jacob Collier, Lang, Muñoz, Christopher Ruelas
• Producer : Lang, Los Hendrix, Nascent, Bisel
23. Forgiveless (featuring Ol' Dirty Bastard)

• "SOS" contains an interpolation of "Listen", performed by Beyoncé, and written by Beyoncé Knowles, Scott Cutler, Henry Krieger and Anne Preven; and a sample of "Until I Found the Lord (My Soul Couldn't Rest)", performed by the Gabriel Hardeman Delegation, and written by Gabriel Hardeman.
• "Love Language" contains an interpolation of "I Don't Wanna", and performed by Aaliyah, and written by Johntá Austin, Jazze Pha, Donnie Scantz and Kevin Hicks; and a sample of "Hit Different", performed by SZA featuring Ty Dolla Sign, and written by Solána Rowe, Tyrone Griffin, Jr., Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo, and Rob Bisel.
• "Smoking on My Ex Pack" contains a sample of "Open Up Your Eyes", performed by Webster Lewis, and written by Clarence Scarborough.
• "Good Days" contains an interpolation of "In Too Deep", performed by Jacob Collier featuring Kiana Ledé and written by Collier.
• "Forgiveless" contains a sample of "Hidden Place", written and performed by Björk; and "The Stomp", written and performed by Ol' Dirty Bastard.

• Carter Lang : bass (2, 17), choir (2, 12), guitar (2, 13), keyboards (3, 6, 12, 13, 17), drums (12, 13), piano (12)
• Rob Bisel : bass (2, 17), choir (2, 12), guitar (2, 13), keyboards (3, 4, 6, 12, 13, 17), vocals (4), acoustic guitar (6); drums, piano (12); background vocals (14, 16, 20, 25)
• Teo Halm : keyboards, guitar, drums (20, 25)
• ThankGod4Cody : drums (3, 17), keyboards (3), choir (10)
• Scum : keyboards (3)
• Alessandro Buccellati : accordion, keyboards (4)
• Aire Atlantica : drums (4)
• Will Miller : keyboards (6)
• Yuli : viola (6)
• Stix – drums (10)
• Matt Cohn : drums (12)
• Benny Blanco : keyboards (16)
• Blake Slatkin : keyboards, guitar (16)
• Omer Fedi : keyboards (16)
• Sammy Witte : guitar (17)
• Still Woozy : guitar (17)
• Jacob Collier : background vocals (22)