Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Smoking on My Ex Pack

Smoking on My Ex Pack

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The result was: not scheduled by - Dank (push to talk) 23:35, 5 September 2023 (UTC)



"Smoking on My Ex Pack" is a song by American singer-songwriter SZA (pictured) from her second studio album, SOS (2022). It is one of the album's three rap tracks, built around hard-hitting drums and a sped-up sample of a 1980s ballad. Before the album's release, media wrote of SZA as an R&B artist who made music for "sad girls", melancholic music that catered to a female audience. Disillusioned, she conceived "Smoking on My Ex Pack", among other songs, in an effort to combat such narratives, which she believed was stereotyping of her as a Black woman. With the track, she experimented with more lyrically and sonically aggressive music, making her foray into hip hop. "Smoking on My Ex Pack" speaks positively of her sex appeal and negatively of her ex-lovers, reveling in SZA's braggadocious, taunting persona; one lover has his penis targeted. Critics were positive about the new sound, and they deemed the lyrics candid and scathing enough that she had the potential to become a fully fledged rapper. 📝 "Will you hang me out to dry?" 02:58, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Most recent similar article(s): for a general music-related article, we got the album The Next Day scheduled for 30 August 2023 . for a song article in particular, "My Man" ran on 2 August
 * Main editors: myself
 * Promoted: 19 July 2023
 * Reasons for nomination: the tour in support of the album ends on this date.
 * Support as nominator. ‍ ‍ Elias 🌊 ‍  ‍ 💬 "Will you call me?"
 * Support. Nice to see a women dishing it out in a stereotypically male field. Gog the Mild (talk) 20:49, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Comment: SZA's 34th birthday on November 8 would be a more widely recognized occasion. Doubt anyone except fans can connect a song's TFA appearance to the date a tour is ending.--NØ 09:50, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I will be scheduling November and would be happy to reserve the 8th for this article, if the nominator prefers that. Personally I suspect that only aficionados will either know or care about about either birthdays or tour dates, but suspect the latter may be more prominent in their minds., do you have a view? Gog the Mild (talk) 13:03, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Sounds good to me. - Dank (push to talk) 16:06, 20 August 2023 (UTC)