Right here’s Why SZA Was on Crutches on the Grammys

An premature leg damage wasn’t sufficient to maintain SZA from attending the 2022 Grammy Awards on Sunday night time (April 3), and lifting some {hardware}.

The U.S. singer and songwriter reduce a hobbled determine on the gala, which she attended on crutches. It’s simply as effectively she made the trouble, as a result of she was known as to the stage to obtain the most effective pop duo/group efficiency Grammy for “Kiss Me Extra,” her collaboration with Doja Cat.

In one of many lighter moments of the night time, SZA visited the rostrum on crutches to gather her award, with Woman Gaga readily available to make sure she didn’t have a catastrophe for the total world to see.

Talking backstage from the Grammys media room, SZA defined the reason for her damage.

“It’s very humorous as a result of I fell out a mattress proper earlier than it was time to go away and prepare for this,” she mentioned. “Just like the day earlier than, however that’s the way in which it goes. Every part superior in my life has at all times include one thing like very random, nevertheless it simply provides to the power.”

Carrying that power, she hinted at extra music within the pipeline. A second earlier, she revealed her subsequent album could be prepared quickly. “It’s in all probability my most unisex challenge but, if that is sensible. It’s for everybody,” she defined.

Whether or not one other observe with Doja Cat is amongst these new creations, time will reveal. If not, it wouldn’t be by means of an absence of mutual respect. “She’s a star,” SZA enthused about her collaborator, “I feel she’s so masterful…I’ve simply been in a position to be taught from her.”

“Kiss Me Extra” peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Scorching 100 and Official U.Ok. Singles Chart, and led a number of surveys, together with Billboard’s Rhythmic Airplay chart, and the pair carried out the hit dwell on the 2021 Billboard Music Awards.

SZA’s most up-to-date full-length studio album was 2017’s Cltr, which reached No. 3 on the all-genres Billboard 200 chart.