SZA, a singer, says she didn’t sign up for fame and finds it strange

SZA “didn’t sign up” to become famous all over the world.

Since starting her music career in 2017, the 35-year-old singer has put out two best-selling albums. However, she has acknowledged that she occasionally finds it “hard to be so comfortable” in front of the cameras as she prepares to make her film debut in “One of Them Days,” costarring with well-known actress and former child star Keke Palmer.

“It makes you want to be a part of something and take a risk because you feel insulated by beautiful energy,” she said on the American television program Extra.

Keke has this weird network of mechanisms where everything just kind of flows even while the cameras are on. You see how some individuals are extremely well accustomed to being viewed and have a different system to approach it.

It’s a little more difficult for me to feel at ease when I don’t fully understand what’s going on. I didn’t have a renowned upbringing.[Fame] is really strange, yet people act as though it’s common. “That’s what you signed up for,” they say, and I respond, “Actually, I had no idea what I was signing up for.”

The Grammy Award winner, whose true name is Solána Imani Rowe, described how she led a “normal” life before her career took off and how she had to get used to being “examined” in such a public manner.

“You know, I grew up just in the ‘burbs, went to regular school, regular college, and did regular odd jobs until, you know, everything popped off,” she remarked. Now, I’ve never had an examination like this, where it’s like looking through binoculars.

“I just wrote a few songs, and I was happy that people enjoyed them, so I continued. Even with this film, I just signed on without considering that there would ultimately be a press junket and that you would eventually have to appear on camera.