SZA announces major career change plans despite successful music career as she shares bikini snaps

SZA revealed the surprising way she intends on fulfilling her recording contract and her plans for a major career change.

The 35-year-old singer, who has become one of the most successful artists of her generation over the past decade, told fans on Saturday that she is looking at dipping her toe into a new genre of music.

'To fulfill my last 2 album requirements I think I just wanna make peaceful children's music n get outta here,' the four-time Grammy winner wrote on X. 'Then go be a farmer n donate the produce to underserved communities.' 

Back in March 2024, the Kill Bill hitmaker appeared on Sesame Street, which she described as a 'dream' reminding others that 'anything is possible.

A day later, she took to Instagram to share a series of scenic shots of her in nature, on a boat, posing for a mirror selfie in a blue and orange bikini and hugging trees. 

Over her career, the pop star (born Solána Rowe) has won four Grammy Awards, six Billboard Music Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, six BET Awards and a Soul Train Music Award. 

In 2024, SZA was the musician with the most nominations. 

A year prior, she Rolling Stone ranked her number 180 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time, and in, 2022, she was named one of the rising stars on the TIME 100 Next List in 2022. 

Her latest remarks come just one month after she released the highly-anticipated deluxe edition of her Grammy-winning 2022 album SOS.

In November, she admitted to feeling like she was 'drowning on stage' when she headlined Glastonbury 2024. 

While serving as the closing night headliner at the festival, her performance was marred by technical issues. 

The singer's audio to appear muffled and distorted, leading people to label her set as 'disastrous.'

In a recent interview with British Vogue, the star said: 'I just felt like nothing I could do would be enough for Glastonbury, no matter what I did. It scared me. I was like, well, I wish I wasn’t doing it, but I couldn’t walk away from it…'

She said she thought at the time: 'I’m scared. I feel like I’m drowning on stage and I feel like I’m failing.'

And on becoming the second Black soloist in history to headline, she called it 'such a f*****g tall order. It’s like, no matter what you do here, you will be subject to criticism. Because of who you are. But that’s life. That’s life, you know?'

At Glastonbury, the star ended up drawing one of the smallest crowds despite being one of the most dominant forces in the industry as England were also playing in the Euros at the time.

Her studio album SOS dropped in 2022 and it remained in the Billboard 200 for nine consecutive weeks - the first female artist to achieve this since Adele in 2016.

Nonetheless, she announced a break from live music just weeks after her Glastonbury set to 'get her life together' and also revealed to Vogue that staying in the music industry has remained a constant battle.

The star confessed she sometimes thinks maybe she is not meant for fame and feels as if she is 'crashing and burning'.

Admitting she suffers from 'so much' anxiety, SZA said she keeps trying to 'rise to the occasion' and claimed God wouldn't have put her in this position if she wasn't supposed to be in the music industry.

Despite her Glastonbury setback, SZA set London alight with an incredible performance at BST Hyde Park in the same week as her headlining set.

Metro's review called the show 'virtually flawless' and claimed 'her live vocals (are) truly something to be admired' – a sentiment echoed by fans and critics alike.

Due to her reservations with the industry, SZA does have another album, Lana, on the horizon – with estimates that she will be releasing it before autumn is over.

Discussing her thoughts behind the album, the star said she was making new music from a more 'beautiful place' rather than 'angsty'.

She claimed piece by piece her music is 'shifting' and she is not identifying with her 'brokeness' as it is 'not my identity.'