SZA - "Ice Moon" (Official Video)

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Earlier this year we discovered SZA's second, self-released EP, 'S': eight tracks of awesome, which we listened to straight through, and then we went straight back to the beginning to press play again. A pitch-perfect blend of glowering, boomy beats, fluttering synths, and SZA's luxuriant tones, the St. Louis-born singer messes with R&B and serves it up fresh. So it came as no surprise when Top Dawg Entertainment (Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q) snapped her up. "Ice Moon" is lifted from 'S,' and its accompanying video is, much like SZA herself, rooted in reality but magic at the same time.
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[@Flowerchildd1]

Still listening to this in 2020 & beyond. Only the OG Sza fans can relate

[@deandremitchener5444]

Yoooo no way

[@electricoceanamoon577]

Yes absolutely

[@eddiemontana4759]

Absolutely! And be blessed, mate.

[@Anerdi1]

Same here. Can't get enough

[@pariscapri1594]

💪🏽

[@breepenn]

its crazy how some people will never know this side of her. Like I love being a fan of hers and seeing her grow musically but its a shame for me personally that some people will never know the SZA that first captured all our hearts you know?

[@keelandavidson8533]

Breonna Penn I’m a “new” fan and I’m discovering the old music. LoVE HER

[@_peadar_]

I RELATE TO THIS SO HARD. Something so bitterly rewarding in the raw honesty of her older music. Does that make sense? I don't know. Ugh i just love her so much

[@jwalker8134]

Breonna Penn YES!!

[@LoveNaisa]

That’s how it was with Nicki Minaj too. If they weren’t fans since the underground days they won’t truly understand the hype.

[@nthabie8704]

I know right...

[@milsxx]

I miss old sza and her alternative sound :{

[@ev3rmet629]

i like the new her better tbh

[@Yesimlexx]

right ! me too

[@julianlemle5907]

Asealia said she is jesus

[@GhostDawg23]

She sold out smh

[@badromauro]

yeah, I luv her new songs, but the alternative ones hit way more different :(

[@KTBEverlasting]

This song makes me want to go to a forest and just chill for as long as I need to.

[@heartsandsouls4727]

frrr

[@ctokyox977]

Tru

[@swankishigara6894]

KTBEverlasting Don't forget to have that blunt witchu✌😁😙💨

[@danielmav1420]

Kvng Swankz RIGHT!!!

[@eurythmicslaps6515]

This song makes me think of my daughter growing from a baby girl to a woman.

[@raqraqxox]

this song makes me feel like a spiritually enlightened person that loves being in nature n shit

[@KeepingUpWithSharlyn]

flower child, beautiful child

[@lexiedaster1070]

Raqraqxox yes!

[@brandybrown3381]

Raqraqxox l. O

[@alisamakedonskaya1794]

Raqraqxox :D

[@jonny2hotty378]

I like the shit part haha

[@naelynn9582]

Shout out to the OG SZA FANS!!

[@rosenars6665]

✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

[@knaesh]

literally

[@iWatchtrashTV]

🙄 yall so corny with these comments. Here's your 🍪

[@melaniesnell]

after the grammy's I reflected on how it's been 10 years of me listening to her! love to see her win🏆

[@malcxvm]

Don’t get me wrong CTRL and SOS are great, but Z just hits different 🥹 It’s so nostalgic and dreamy

[@Kraniaks]

This isn't even from Z 💀💀 it's from S

[@_Sumeyo_]

@@Kraniaks yup

[@luckyluc3411]

S my girl❤

[@dreamergirlbaby]

The way she sings "Go to church if you're scared"

[@angeliquec8able]

I can tell she meant it in a good way

[@ernesto4893]

I don’t think she meant it in a good way

[@xfficial_5863]

Ernesto she didn’t ppl

[@evapuchalova5204]

She must return to this music. It sounds absolutely transcendentally...That's SZA for me...

[@ytyoungrichnhigh]

hope she drops A with like 20 tracks and then leaves music at that.

[@Peterrdee]

@@ytyoungrichnhighI think she scrapped A to do ctrl

[@breabyrd5399]

Let the woman grow🙌🏽

[@newk073]

Ikrr

[@brian7624]

@@ytyoungrichnhigh A is ctrl

[@mayanelson1273]

Her earlier albums are the best.

[@stephenpryce4287]

Anybody else feel like the video depicts something like heaven, or a place where you can solve all your troubles?

[@n.eliana3933]

I do 😌

[@stephenpryce4287]

Naisa Pinto Yay, not just me then

[@n.eliana3933]

Stephen Pryce Actually I wanna go there

[@beautybypatrice8398]

yes an infinite true heaven

[@donniedarko1244]

Stephen Pryce my interpretation is that its a place (really state of mind an artist is in when creating) where u are king/queen and unstoppable in your craft.. At one point i remember ppl referring to the mind engaging in a continuous(almost effortless ) form of creativity (like mozart composing or a rapper writing lyrics, etc.) as Flow...i believe she is talking about that place or thats how im choosing to see it. It really is a secret place. Like i remember Michael Jackson being pressed to describe how he comes up with his lyrics. His only response was the heavens. I feel everybody is blessed with some type of talent. Some ppl are naturally great public speakers or naturally gifted with mechanics.. it just clicks and when they are in their element doing their thing is like a secret place in their mind gifted by God. Being able to let somebody in that world is incredibly personal. "Go to church if youre scared", i interpret as when you're in this element u have an invisible cord to the almighty so in that space is like church. not now saying church isnt needed but in that moment u talking to god. like t.d jakes was like when he was a boy he wud go out in the woods in Virginia and just talk to the birds the trees, GOD. what is jakes today. see he gets it too ... i relate to sza like brother to sister when listening to this song.but that how i feel about this song

[@arancienne]

i miss this sza

[@gloriagloria5628]

Aurora Lara so do I, although I appreciate the more emotionally open one in CTRL. but her new fans don’t know the real her....

[@nauraimaswan206]

Yup

[@Mommasun_]

Same 😪

[@criesinguccilarmesdegucci285]

Same here this was the first song I heard by her when I was in highschool and while I'm happy she's getting more publicity I get annoyed that most people don't know she has even more amazing music under her name than just the Ctrl album. Even then people only consider three of the songs any good while ignoring the rest.

[@sweets2thesweetshop]

Aurora Lara Absolutely miss this sza😍😍💯

[@marinateTV]

This the Sza that captured me

[@malcador]

This is the only one I know, this one and Child’s Play. Haven’t followed her career at all but those two still fye to me

[@tiffanywhittaker710]

WHOs VIBING TO THIS IN 2020??

[@frankhawkins1639]

Daily💯

[@18yvnna]

In 2021 ✌🏽

[@sofiapineapple]

2024

[@ShinigamixEater]

2:06 omg so cute 😭💕💕 Her jumping around is so cute wtf

[@rolandcrosby6893]

One of her hardest songs

[@MizzAmanda1109]

This is the most beautiful music video I've ever seen.

[@themightykingdaron]

ມະໂນ້າ And you are the most beautiful woman that I have ever heard.

[@ReppinWeBe]

HRH General Djehuty Well Played Well Played

[@themightykingdaron]

Courtlandt Wilson Good lookin' out, brotha!

[@themightykingdaron]

Young Riah Thanks, fam. I just caught a few minutes of her show, I'm cool...she takes nice pics though. Good lookin' out.

[@ashleysims346]

I feel the same

[@GoddessTX]

All these “new fans” 😭ain’t know nun bout this

[@michaelray4407]

Komplex Kariah right

[@usedtobewifeymaterial8989]

Being a new fan of her doesn't mean to only listen to ctrl 🤦🏽‍♀️

[@kassieyankanich4470]

Hiiijack is by far the best album! 😍

[@jaredgreathouse3672]

Lol yeah, see, this is how you know who REALLY listens to her. If they say "Uhhhh...... The Weekend or Broken Clocks are my favourite songs," they likely don't listen to her like that. I love both those songs, but if somebody says ICE MOON or CASTLES or Once Upon a High, then you can say "Ok, you know what you're talking about."

[@jaredgreathouse3672]

Kassie Yankanich Hiiijack isn't an album...

[@mewoo2414]

2024 i am still here… i like this SZA

[@charlesmcarthur3829]

its sad people be forgetting that SZA really been making music since 2013

[@Justlikemagic96]

2012*

[@ayadhyist]

*2011

[@SweetheartTheDrunk]

I love how she's so playful and earthy, to the point of the surreal. The music feels like it borrows from that era of 80s fantasy synth, the sort of ambient music you'd hear in a kid's adventure movie (think Labyrinth or Goonies), but coupled with this fantastically rich bass. Makes for the most wonderful effect. I'm officially a fan.

[@katerobbins7936]

Have you ever seen the movie Legend with Tom Cruz. This video reminds of the beginning of that movie 💕

[@lonestar6134]

this made me cry a little wanting paradise like this

[@harveyneal5422]

My Life and The Media it made me tear a lil cause I had a female like this that I lost

[@pomrom4201]

That moment when you wanna be a tree

[@DeAndreHampton]

tf how do I pronounce that name

[@jasoncooper232]

+DeAndre Hampton "Sizz-uh"

[@DeAndreHampton]

+Jason Cooper no dude 5he name of the person who commented

[@pomrom4201]

it's french :')

[@JavenarchX]

Hah

[@sashaelainev]

i really do miss the glitter trap era

[@gems.lament]

me fucking too.

[@JesusGomez-ob2qt]

Her neo-soul era from Z >>>

[@khaloodgotjuice1396]

This girl is just amazing, no half-naked-ness, no fake ass persona! Just a beautiful girl with amazing music! This is PURE TALENT. I never heard music like this before and I really like it you can't compare her to anyone!

[@ladygirlblah]

Check out Genesis by Grimes

[@whystareatmyhighhair]

still ugs tho.

[@whystareatmyhighhair]

yep.

[@dvacmunroe5282]

I couldn't have said it better.

[@baddielonglegs]

Exactly, and I love how doesn't have a stylist of any kind. She dresses and makes up herself. You know she's real.

[@eurolex2446]

This was my introduction to SZA on release day… Been a fan ever since. It’s crazy to see how far she has come…

[@ZAIREADAMS00]

I think this song is about finding an escape. If you listen (for some reason a lot of people here can't understand what she's saying, but I can), she says "Summertime, Sadness" at the beginning of the song, and that right there should indicate depression, and I think she's asking for some sort of escape. A happy place. Therefore, that indicates the video. It's like she's in a fairy tail, it's as if in the song she was asking for a getaway, and in the video, she's finally found her new limbo. The song also talks about purity, religion beliefs and disbelief's, and obviously, depression and the yearn to feel happy.

[@FindYourFree]

beauty

[@CarolynThompsonMew]

What a really good perspective 💕

[@mojaslatt]

Man, sometimes I miss this sound/style from her. Im glad SZA is seeing so much success now

[@brian7624]

me too but she cant make it in the industry with this sound the general pop wouldn't support this type of music or at least aren't ready to

[@rosedemai1230]

They did with Kate Bush and Bjork but not a black girl. ☹️

[@MrOzneral]

FOR YOU LAZY FUCKS SMH [Verse 1] Summertime sadness I feel India in my bones I can smell sunlight I can feel the highline Bless me Gods bless me Goddess of Forbidden Love I am she I keep one white candle Maintain Purity, purity [Hook] Show me the way to your hiding place I think I wanna go go there Show me the way to your hiding place I think I wanna go go go go there Go to church if you scared [Verse 2] I lay formless Hands tied in my sheets Star signs say I'm rare Chosen By who I-I-I-I-I I wonder who's watchin' Whose wing I'm under Sweep me up and I'll go No questions take me I'll go! [Hook] [Outro] Show me the way Yea yea yea Yea yea yea Yea yea yea 100

[@layah28]

Thanks because i didn't understand what the hell she was saying.

[@MrOzneral]

ur welcome 😁

[@MzQueenPlatinum]

Oh thank god that made it so better now I can get addicted haha

[@harmony7377]

thnx

[@alliecat92]

😂😂😂

[@keyj4604]

I love Ctrl, but her style here was what drew me to her, very unique. I know she had to make a more commercial album and that’s okay I just hope on her future projects she could go back to this sound. It sounded more authentic and passionate.

[@nathanaelmcmahan872]

She didn't have to make mainstream trash. She sold out, made pleb fans, and doesn't need her witchy, esoteric, and/or higher brain-celled audience anymore.

[@jjiasha7979]

Summertime sadness I feel India in my bones I can smell sunlight I can feel the highline Bless me Gods bless me Goddess of Forbidden Love I am she I keep one white candle Maintain Purity, purity Show me the way to your hiding place I think I wanna go go there Show me the way to your hiding place I think I wanna go go go go there Go to church if you're scared I lay formless Hands tied in my sheets Star signs I'm rare Chosen By who I I wonder who's watchin' Whose wing I'm under Sweep me up and I'll go No questions take me I'll go! Show me the way to your hiding place I think I wanna go go there Show me the way to your hiding place I think I wanna go go go go there Go to church if you scared Yeah yeah yeah Yeah yeah yeah Yeah yeah yeah 100

[@goldengod9949]

This song makes me fucking weak!! The lyrics have always been powerful to me but revisiting it years later just hits different and makes me emotional….God bless

[@Itz.monica_forlifeslay]

2024.... who's still here. ❤❤❤❤

[@bristay1]

I'm going to find this place and the balloons better be there !! 😂

[@ctokyox977]

😂😂😂😂 right

[@markferrell3]

lol

[@ric5488]

Not 100 percent sure but I think ik where this location is.

[@adelinogalaxy9795]

bristay1 your comment just made my day 😂 bless you

[@akiyameadows6612]

😂💀😔💯

[@VonGlorious]

The glitter trap days ✨

[@MeelsxOnWheels16]

I miss this SZA so much 😭

[@pinklemonade6597]

Feel like im floating whenever i listen to this song

[@drelencole6078]

Same

[@Juellzmakgato]

This is such a beautiful song. Its a spirtitual song which speaks about purity and finding the beauty within yourself and your soul. And she just wants to escape from everyday life and go to a place and a space where everyone shows their light and beauty. Its really stunning and the video is just that, simple, symbolic, peaceful, beautiful and in my represents that place visually and shows wat shes talking about.

[@xPureRage]

This song makes me want to eat a bunch of shrooms and chill in the woods for some reason.

[@queentoya6949]

😂😂😂

[@quoteme.goddess2369]

Aww, Damn! You too? It was my first thought about this vid and sound.

[@justinreno7610]

I'm like 95% sure this song was inspired by psychedelics...

[@caitlynfox2504]

You should. Also check out Ice Moon Revisited ft. Ab Soul... That'll really make you wanna do drugs

[@shannon3525]

Me too:)

[@KeemBeckford]

This side of her .. I fell in love with … A Glitter Trap combustion of alternative R&B ✨🖤 beautiful!

[@rosedemai1230]

'Glitter trap' 💙💙💙✨✨✨

[@ana-qi3lw]

Y'all new stans will neva know about this song lmao.

[@refiloedudumaluleke486]

The lyrics to this song really emphasises my Spiritual journey

[@Peterrdee]

Ugh I just love everything before Ctrl those were the days

[@jazzyspanksz]

I think I wanna go there 💫

[@samukelomapeyi1126]

Ice Moon = Lifetime Masterpiece!

[@flaminqash]

I really like all of her songs from 7 and 8 years ago

[@letshegosebego7682]

The Sza that I fell in love with🥺

[@jennyfur8835]

I dare the new fans to listen to her old stuff . Shes been the beeznees for a long time shes just now getting the attention she deserved . 🌻

[@Pickythicky]

Yes I'm like I been here since day one just about lol ...

[@Pickythicky]

marina. She just lost weight

[@alexmedina7266]

Tbh I'm new to her and I love her old music more than her new. Nothing but being a side hoe and sleeping around and its like whaat

[@lulu93614]

Sza and kelela need to collab

[@nannetwakarikangacha8017]

I think so too

[@QuietStorm26]

yesssssssss

[@ClareseGrant]

Angela ke-who? i’m 3 years late but i think you just put me on

[@tsikomudau6149]

I cannot believe I am still listening to a SZA even this year. I miss this sound from her.

[@tfh5575]

i was a sza fan during this era but she really came into herself for ctrl. ctrl and sos are superior

[@MariaClara-ke4db]

Something about dark and depressive Sza though that sounds so authentic.Personally a fan of her pre ctrl era but yes artists have to evolve.

[@LordKushCloud]

I am absolutely in love with this. The production and lyrics to this is extremely radiant to me.

[@sara78889]

Me too.

[@83pauljoey]

god damn right

[@ILLyseOnTheBeat]

💯

[@wtttff]

her and kali uchis old eras were beautiful

[@mehrahLove]

I miss this SZA

[@billieeilishfan66]

I’m levitating wait till the sos fans hear this one 🙌🙌

[@Lakeythakidd]

She was the soundtrack to my higher consciousness transformation

[@katleho011gauteng8]

2023 still love this track❤

[@deeholli6163]

Man I miss this SZA 🔥

[@janetwhite3857]

We’ll never see or hear from this Sza again🤦🏾‍♀️

[@olivia-hc7ut]

i miss old sza

[@kawaiicarebear]

7 years later and this song still gives me butterflies 🥹.I love r&b sza but this was the sza that made me a fan.

[@Uxlanibal]

She really spoke her real in this music

[@ezra5629]

My favorite era of her music

[@EarthlyEaysia]

Still listening to this! I remember seeing SZA at Jhené’s Enter The Void concert in 2013 and she performed this. I was right in the front of the stage and was one of the only people who knew the song. We had our little moment 🥺

[@Flowerchildd1]

Omg that was such a moment 🥺 I would’ve been right there with y’all singing my heart out😭

[@starf3780]

I come back here time after time

[@nelson242real6]

This is exactly what T.D.E needed

[@Simple_Dipsy]

This song raised me ❤

[@joshuakumoyo7793]

I miss this sza 😢

[@hol4822]

Forever wishing this was on Spotify.....

[@WalkWithGodLikeEnoch]

Sza from six years ago is a totally different artist in 2020 no more alternative vibes

[@marioespitiaarabia6314]

Still bumping this in 2021. Anyone else?

[@thatonegirljazmyne1397]

Still listening this is my go to song when I’m feeling down summer time sadness 😭🧿🤍

[@AntOriginates]

First song i heard back in 2013 & fell in love since

[@JustDeJane]

OG SZA #YouHadToBeThere

[@LoveNaisa]

I liked this Sza wayyy more compared to the mainstream one. I kept telling myself about how uninteresting she was until I heard her older music. Legendary 🥺❤️

[@whitenoisesuperstar]

this video parallels really well with the Garden (say it like dat) video

[@Caycee.]

she should make more music like this and actually release it on more platforms 😭

[@atfnitarian]

I miss this sza

[@LILSXB]

What a throwback mannn...

[@thirdiii94]

this is the sza that i fell in love with 🧊🌙

[@soulyvanh985]

Oh yeah.... Same for me !

[@blainechristensen9580]

God I wish she still sounded like this. She's falling off and it breaks my heart. OG Sza before she blew up was sooo fucking good.

[@alicemiriah]

Falling off? How so?

[@blainechristensen9580]

@alicemiriah well I guess what I mean is. She doesn't sound like this anymore. The production is different. She's definitely still relevant. Her new album is great but. It's not like this. This stuff sounds more underground, and what she does now is like what everyone else is doing. She doesn't sound unique anymore.

[@brooklynnefertiti9589]

Will always be in my top 10 song from Sza. Miss this side of her ✨🥰

[@cebisamdingi8490]

You’re 15/16 and you listening to this? You in the right lane 👍🏾🔥🔥 good music.

[@roeshad]

me lol

[@contourbae]

no

[@isaiahrholt]

Day one’s favorite

[@11cylynt11]

Why are Sza's 1st 2 EP's so hard to find now? I'm glad I got them when I did. I love her new albums but her 1st 2 EP's are my favorite. ❤️❤️❤️

[@ladycrillz]

you can find them on soundcloud

[@11cylynt11]

@@ladycrillz I'm good, I got them a long time ago already when they 1st came out. But the option of being able to stream them is more convenient. I'm glad I got them when I did.

[@ladycrillz]

@@11cylynt11 But why stream them if you could just upload them to your itunes and cross over into your phone? lol

[@kashrules6006]

officially a SZA fan

[@FlakkitoNiggas97]

Out in the woods, under the moon with no lights near just enough to see the stars while this playing this its like it takes you to another galaxy!

[@MalandraRecords]

Madly In Love With This Song 😩

[@jordancartier504]

The memories this brings 😩

[@leroylee9444]

Her music always gets me in a state of serenity.

[@lizxmere]

Now I wanna meditate in the woods

[@joleent4728]

Out of all the songs Sza has made this still my favorite 💐 🌈 🍬🍬💜 this song goes so hard on the speakers

[@rossmontoya8430]

Wha wha wha one hunnit

[@daze6516]

I am not a hater. I love sza, but tbh this is what I wanted Ctrl to sound like.

[@blackgrlfly]

Dazeree mcquay you wanted it to sound like music she's already made?

[@Pikachu-pf9ve]

Pretty little birds has the aesthetics like this

[@iamchuckie]

Same

[@Missmmmmmmmmmm]

come on guys

[@ef4110]

@@Pikachu-pf9ve exactly why pretty lil birds is my fave on the album

[@Strgrl369]

I still come back to Sza old music when times get tough, I find so much comfort and relation in her music

[@lovegod1steverythingelse2n47]

I’m still doing it now at the end of 2023 ❤

[@Gemgirl05]

@@lovegod1steverythingelse2n47Same here✋🏿🎧💯! She was just on a whole level with this song😍. Sometimes you need to just go back to the oldies of artists😌

[@bellateeda4865]

OG sza fans all here

[@hm3278]

oh sza you ate this lil one two i’m not gone lie to you

[@JustTooAmazing]

Saw her live she's fucking amazing.

[@sarahRA86]

I love how she used to sing in her EP days…😞

[@artificiallypretty]

Crazy how I discovered this at 15, Now I’m 25 and still in awe of her growth 🫶🏽

[@Parrfn]

UR AN OG

[@Pikachu662]

I love love love this song so much. SZA makes such good music.

[@Sixtehfifteh]

I hate that this is not on Spotify

[@monicamejiam]

2023 still here

[@StinkyDula]

Me too 😭❤️