TDE's Punch reveals Doja Cat is more likely to feature on a remix of SZA's "Shirt" than the original track

In a new cover story for Complex, SZA briefly mentions the wait for her Ctrl follow-up, and TDE's Punch also discussed the likelihood of Doja Cat appearing on her TikTok track "Shirt", after SZA teased the collaboration at Wireless Festival.

SZA said of the wait for her new album, "I appreciate [my fans] patience, but constantly trying to people-please and fulfil expectations instead of just thinking about what you need can deter you from your true path. And the next thing you know you're somebody that you never signed up to be. Even with this album, I just wanna be better than my last project to myself. I wanna be a better writer. I wanna be a better artist, musician… a better thinker. I just wanna do things that make myself proud and interested."

Although SZA teased that "Shirt" would feature Doja Cat at this year's Wireless Festival, the interview reveals that TDE's Punch said that Doja Cat is more likely to feature on a remix of the track over the original song.

Euphoria creator Sam Levinson said of SZA, "I’ve heard tracks from her that are so rich, so gorgeous it takes your breath away. I think she understands music on a higher level, in a Brian Wilson kinda way. Everyone talks about her as a storyteller which I get cause she’s astonishingly visual and intimate but the sheer complexity of her melodies coupled with how unpredictable she is as a vocalist is what makes her so special. She’s got verses where every other line could be its own hit single. But the fact that she breezes right past them and into some melancholic banger of a chorus is how you know she’ll go down as one of the greats. She’s restless and imaginative."

Jerkins, who worked with SZA on the unreleased "Shirt", said of her as an artist and her upcoming music, "Her pen game is arguably one of the best pen games in the game right now. It’s almost like she’s a rapper tied up in a vocalist. All I’m going to say is she’s a genius. There's no fear in her writing. She's gonna say whatever she wants to say, and that's what it is. And to me, that’s the X factor."