"Take You Down" is an upcoming song by American singer-songwriter SZA. It was intended to be a track on Lana (2024), the reissue of her second studio album SOS (2022). The song was scheduled to be released on January 6, 2025.
Background
American singer-songwriter SZA released her second studio album SOS on December 9, 2022.[1][2] Immediately afterward, she posted about the release on Instagram while also teasing that it would have a deluxe edition.[3]
In September 2023, SZA officially that the deluxe edition became a "whole 'nother" project, a reissue titled Lana.[4][5] She once again suggested that its release was on the way through an Instagram video on March 12, 2024. Captioned "never fight over community dick", the teaser shows SZA as she poses in a camping tent, wearing nothing but a red bikini.[6][7] A day later, she reposted the song on Twitter and revealed she recorded the video in her garage the night after she finished the song, on March 11.[8]
Release
"Take You Down" was intended to appear on Lana, but SZA's manager, Punch, told her to exclude it from the final tracklist. Hours after the reissue's release, she shared text conversations between the two on social media in which they discussed its exclusion. According to the screenshot, SZA had asked Punch for permission to release "Take You Down" alongside "PSA", another Lana outtake, sometime soon. He replied by saying she can "give it to [the fans] for new years or Christmas."[9][10] Due to the holiday break, the label postponed the release to January 6, 2025.[11] The release was postponed again.[12]
