The show has another stacked lineup for this, the show's 55 th season, and SZA's special performance dropped today: a songs about "Gratitude" she performs with muppets Elmo, Abby and Gabrielle, to which she brings her singular mellifluous melodies and vocalizations.

This is the nature of the beast when it comes to people writing about "Sesame Street." While there are now some culture writers from the "All Elmo, all the time" era of the show, most writers range from "Elmo and Guy Smiley have equally substantive roles in this world" to "Snuffleupagus is Big Bird's imaginary friend.

SZA stopped by Sesame Street to teach Elmo and his friends about kindness and gratitude while singing "Be Kind to Me, Be Kind to You."

SZA is sharing her tricks to having good days on the latest episode of Sesame Street, which finds the hitmaker singing an adorable song about practicing kindness and gratitude with Elmo and more Muppet friends.

What’s Miss SZA doing?” Elmo asks SZA in a clip provided ahead of Thursday’s episode. “I’m just adding this picture to my gratitude jar,” she replies. What’s a gratitude jar, you might be wondering? It’s “a place where you can put words or pictures of things you’re grateful for,

HOW DOES ONE GET ON SESAME STREET !?” It looks like she found the answer. SZA taped her Sesame Street appearance more than a year ago, and it finally made its way onto the show today — good timing, with all that SZA’s got going on these days.