Sza detailed how Stevie Wonder affected her grammy-winning song ‘Saturn’

It was a sky night for sza that took home its fifth Grammy Trophy for Best R&B Song to “Saturn”

The artist, who will join Kendrick Lamar during the break show performance at the Super Bowl Lix on February 9, shared backstage how Stevie Wonders song with the same name inspired her hit.

“It was such a randomly written song, inspired by Stevie Wonder and his reference to Saturn, and how he talks about in the place that is less destruction and death and pollution and all these things, and part of me is aware of, That there is no other place to go. There is no Saturn. It’s one of the planets that no one has ever talked about visiting, ”she said.

“I think in the same way as ‘good days’, I live constantly with escape. I am the escape that is personified, so I think I just crave escape in all my songs. And that’s what ‘Saturn is about – acceptance of where you are, and also try to escape to a place better.’

This marks the second year in a number of SZA went off with a best R&B song win. Her song “Snooze” got her The Grammy in 2024, when she always won to best progressive R&B album to SOSand best pop duo/group performance for “Ghost in the Machine.”

But try not to determine her to any musical category. “I don’t really think I’m in it (R&B) box. These are the parameters that I am honored tonight and I am grateful for that. With all parameters, regardless of label, the point is the scope and the influence and experience I have had to create all kinds of music and have what is recognized by all types of people, ”she said.

For hopeful songwriters and artists, she has this advice: “Go out of the genre bag and just do what you want and make it feel beautiful to you and make it make sense to you.”

Given all her success, she can also afford herself. “Try harder. I just want to try harder and strive. I think that for a long time I was afraid of striving and embarrassing to strive, especially in public, because it is difficult to strive and fail, ”she said.

“But this is such a final experience, our lives … I just realized that I had finished my first arenatur ever and I will never be able to do it again. That’s what it’s over. And Now I do my first stage tour, ever.