SZA’s ‘Pressure’ Track Video Stars Ben Stiller: Watch

Ben Stiller would force all night time for SZA. Actually, within the new visible for the singer’s monitor “Pressure,” which dropped on Friday morning (Dec. 20), the Nutcrackers megastar seems entranced as he lip-synchs alongside to the music whilst barreling down a gloomy highway in his SUV.

Within the Bradley J. Calder-directed clip, Stiller enthusiastically sings the moody ballad’s lyrics about hitting the street to transparent your head whilst making an attempt not to get too for your head about the entirety that’s happening. “I been up ’til up nighttime, drivin’ to nowhere/ Bumpin’ a gradual music, can’t get my head transparent/ I been up ’til daybreak, headed to nowhere/ Hopin’ that any person’s missin’ me someplace,” SZA sings over gently plucked acoustic guitar.

After being worried that she’s balled so exhausting she’s hit her top, SZA brags about all of the exes who nonetheless need to hit her up and the way she has no time to waste on haters. And whilst he’s hitting the ones strains, Stiller closes his eyes and starts to go with the flow to sleep earlier than waking up with a renewed power that conjures up him to lean out of the window and rip doughnuts in the course of the road. Eagle-eyed audience spotted that the nighttime ghost trip is very similar to a lip-synching cameo Stiller had in Jack Johnson’s “Taylor” video in 2003 — simplest this time round, the actor’s arms are wrapped round a steerage wheel as a substitute of a guitar.

Issues then get tremendous bizarre as Stiller drives off and SZA pops up within the woods dressed as a gorgeous alien insect as the second one part of the music turns right into a slow-grind R&B jam and the singer crawls her means around the marsh. The dress is very similar to one within the teased art work for SZA’s long-awaited deluxe version of her blockbuster SOS album, Lana, which is due out on Friday, in addition to her Scorching Ones glance from September.

SZA first printed the Lana identify throughout a display in New York in September 2023, throughout which she instructed the target audience that the deluxe model of SOS can be like “a complete ‘nother album … It’s seven to ten songs, and it’ll be out q4.” Then in a November British Trend interview, she described Lana and the SOS deluxe as two completely other albums.

However then previous this month, SZA showed that Lana is the identify of the SOS deluxe album, and teased the tracklist. SOS debuted at No. 1 at the Billboard 200 albums charts following its 2022 liberate, shattering the document for the most important streaming week for an R&B album by way of a lady on the time with 404.6 million authentic on-demand streams for the album’s songs, in step with Luminate.

SZA will embark at the Grand Nationwide stadium excursion with Kendrick Lamar starting in April.

Watch the “Pressure” video above.