“Better” here doesn’t mean the original is bad. It means the deluxe edition achieves what all great deluxe editions should: it makes you appreciate the original more. You hear “Kill Bill” differently after “BMF.” You hear “Nobody Gets Me” differently after “Saturn.” You hear the entire SOS project as a two-part epic, not a single album.
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Released in late 2022, SOS is seen by many as a masterpiece of growth and genre-bending. sza sosrar better
Confidence (“SOS”) → Chaos (“Kill Bill”) → Deeper chaos (“Seek & Destroy”) → Self-awareness (“Saturn,” “BMF”) → Reckoning (“Nobody Gets Me”) → Healing (“Diamond Boy”) → Resolve (“Forgiveless”). “Better” here doesn’t mean the original is bad