SZA Confirms ‘Lana’ Deluxe Album With Ben Stiller Cameo

After months of delays and speculation, SZA has finally announced the release date for Lana, the long-awaited deluxe edition of her chart-topping album SOS. The project is set to arrive on Friday, Dec. 20, as confirmed via a teaser video shared on social media.

In the clip shared Monday (Dec. 16), Stiller channels his inner superfan, dramatically lip-syncing to what’s presumed to be SZA’s new track “Drive” while driving through a rainy night.

If the scene feels familiar, it’s because Stiller also once made an iconic lip-syncing cameo in Jack Johnson’s “Taylor” video back in 2003 — except this time, he’s swapping a guitar for a steering wheel.

Lana has been in the works for over two years, with SZA first teasing it as “a whole other album” packed with outtakes and new tracks. In a recent interview with British Vogue, she reflected on her evolving creative process. “I think I am making music from a more beautiful place. From a more possible place versus a more angsty place,” she explained.

“I’m not identifying with my brokenness. It’s not my identity. It’s shit that happened to me. Yeah, I experienced cruelty. I have to put it down at some point. Piece by piece, my music is shifting because of that, the lighter I get.”

The deluxe release marks another chapter in the SOS era, which has been nothing short of massive.

Following its release, SOS debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart with 318,000 equivalent album units – the third-highest debut week of 2022 – and shattered the record for the biggest streaming week for an R&B album by a woman, with 404.6 million official on-demand streams for the album’s songs, according to Luminate. It spent 10 total weeks atop the chart, and became the first R&B album by a woman to hit the double-digit mark since Mariah Carey’s self-titled debut posted 11 weeks at No. 1 in 1991.

With Lana now confirmed, the release perfectly aligns with SZA’s upcoming stadium tour alongside Kendrick Lamar, kicking off in 2025. As part of their highly anticipated Grand National tour, presented by Live Nation, pgLang and Top Dawg Entertainment, the duo are setting off on a North American stadium tour beginning in April 2025.

The Grand National tour will kick off in Minnesota on April 19 and make its way through major cities across the country including Houston, Atlanta, Philadelphia, the New York area, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Detroit, Chicago and even Toronto before wrapping up in Washington, D.C., on June 18.