{"id":804641,"date":"2020-02-26T14:27:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T21:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=958736"},"modified":"2020-02-26T14:27:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T21:27:32","slug":"the-first-time-sza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/the-first-time-sza\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Time: SZA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/tft-sza-thumb.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/sza\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sza\" data-tag=\"sza\">SZA<\/a> discusses her early penchant for grotesque writing, her love of marine biology and her time as a young gymnast in the latest installment of \u201cThe First Time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/sza-interview-new-music-950364\/\"><i>Rolling Stone <\/i>cover star<\/a> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sza-megan-thee-stallion-normani-march-2020-cover-955203\/\">alongside Megan Thee Stallion and Normani<\/a> \u2014 said that the first poems she wrote in elementary school were \u201creally dramatic and dark\u201d and her religious background spurred a fascination with the world\u2019s ills. \u201cAs I got older, I realized you can colorfully depict pain in a way that wasn\u2019t so grotesque,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In college, SZA embraced a new passion, marine biology, and says she would still drop her music career to work in the field (she even noted that she nearly applied to be an assistant for acclaimed wildlife photographer Paul Nicklen). \u201cI know that the ocean is changing in a rapid, permanent way,\u201d SZA says. \u201cI would take six months off just to do entomology and categorize species in the Galapagos or Madagascar \u2014 it\u2019s not even a question.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">SZA also remembered her first gymnastics meet, binging a carb-filled pasta dinner the night before then hitting the floor in a massive gymnasium in front of a full audience. \u201cI have spurts of large energy when I\u2019m increasingly nervous, and gymnastics is a perfect sport, because you can get all of your energy out in one spurt and then really commit to it,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd then it\u2019s done, it\u2019s released.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-first-time-sza-958736\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SZA discusses her early penchant for grotesque writing, her love of marine biology and her time as a young gymnast in the latest installment of \u201cThe First Time.\u201d The recent Rolling Stone cover star \u2014 alongside Megan Thee Stallion and Normani \u2014 said that the first poems she wrote in elementary school were \u201creally dramatic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-21 15:12:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}