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Snooze (song)

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Nominator(s): Elias / PSA 🏕️🪐 ^{[please make some noise]} 03:28, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

How can one snooze and miss the moment? SZA's "Snooze" was one of the top 20 biggest songs of last year and topped Spotify's list of greatest R&B songs of the streaming era. With all the critical acclaim, it's become clear that SZA has made it into the big leagues, continuing the legacies of acts like Destiny's Child, Solange, Erykah Badu, or Brandy.

Many thanks to the insightful @Arconning who provided the GAN review, as well as @Dxneo, @Dylan620, and @Medxvo for participating in the PR. Elias / PSA 🏕️🪐 ^{[please make some noise]} 03:28, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

Comments from Arconning

• Would there be a better source for the Twitter source used? I personally think it's alright but are there any sites that could be used instead?
  • Don't think so; can't find the same year-end chart on official websites
• The first two paragraphs of the "Music video" section could probably be merged.
  • Looks fine to me as is, IMO. The first paragraph talks about the prelude, and the second is a brief overview of the video combined with BTS stuff.
• Non-Western acts who covered the song include Stacey and Mikha of the Filipina girl group Bini., would it be Filipino or Filipina as the wikilinked article describes the group as the former. Are there any other non-Western acts that have covered the song, if so that could probably be included to widen the scope on how the sentence is formed.
  • I think either is okay. Korean artist Hwasa covered Snooze a while back, so there are definitely more non-Western acts that did covers. Annoyingly, however, I could not find a reliable source about that, so I stuck with mentioning the individual Bini members to get around the problem
• Optional: Could you add a picture of SZA during the SOS Tour?
  • Could not find good SOS Tour photos, sorry; those were annoyingly in short supply. Her Glastonbury photos will have to do, but none of the ones on Flickr show the actual "Snooze" performance. Skips straight from "Kiss Me More" to "Kill Bill" even though "Snooze" is performed in between. Let me know if the image and caption satisfy these concerns.

@Arconning: Glad you could make it here. Responses above. Elias / PSA 🏕️🪐 ^{[please make some noise]} 06:03, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

@PSA Support - Good luck on the FAC! Arconning (talk) 07:01, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

Ippantekina

This song was in my top 50 tracks on Spotify last year. SZA really knows how to capture an anxious attachment person's feelings and thoughts!

• ""Snooze" was sent to radio on April 25, 2023, and a four-track single was released on digital streaming platforms on August 25." I think the record label is worth mentioning here
  • Any particular reason why?
• ""Snooze" was also the 17th-best-selling single of 2023" eh... being the 17th-best-selling single is not very lead-worthy imo (not to diminish its success though, because it was surely a hit)
  • I agree that mentioning the exact figure is a bit excessive. Perhaps there is another way to indicate how it was a worldwide hit; simply saying it had significant commercial success feels like a motherhood statement. Maybe simplifying to just "one of the top-20 best-selling songs of 2023"? Although I feel like this is wordy.
• I think you should write out the urban chart as R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay per WP:NOPIPE
  • Not sure I follow -- "urban radio chart" has fewer characters and syllables so the first bullet doesn't apply, and the specific phrase was used not to bypass a redirect but to convey the chart's purpose more intuitively than using the chart name itself, which allows the lead to be more accessible to people unfamiliar with record charts.
• "who play as SZA's love interests" ?
  • Trimmed
• I think "Production" should come before "Composition"
  • I have a preference for the status quo because the transition between sections is currently understandable and smooth. "Background" ends by saying "Snooze" is slow-paced and leans R&B, and the beginning of "composition" says the same; "production" then gives BTS info about the music and ends with a brief mention of the lyrics.
• "The turnaround time for their song was short" hmm do we know exactly how short it was?
  • No exact time. Though considering that the producers (sans BLK) were all in the studio the same day and SZA completed the entire song in under an hour, I'd guess that time would be one day
• "The making of SOS involved, as SZA called it, several "palate cleanser" sessions," hmm why not something like "According to SZA, the making of SOS involved several "palate cleanser" sessions," to limit the use of commas which make the sentence read rather chopped?
  • Good point
• "in November 2022, SZA revealed the album's title, and she announced that SOS would be released sometime next month" redundant imo
  • I think this sentence is necessary as a build-up of sorts, so I tried to reword it to make it read less awkwardly beside the second one.
• ""Snooze"'s" I think this usage of the possessive is discouraged, maybe something like "the placement of "Snooze" "?
  • Can you link to the relevant guideline that discourages this?

I've read up to "Critical reception". Ippantekina (talk) 03:34, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for stopping by @Ippantekina. I've been a fan since "All the Stars" and seeing her artistry and numbers grow has been crazy. Seeing your thoughts on SZA was delightful responses above. Elias / PSA 🏕️🪐 ^{[please make some noise]} 03:47, 19 November 2024 (UTC)