“This is the pivotal point, sonically, of the album. And then I'm like, 'Yo, you want to hear my project?' Third song in and then he hopped on it and it was great. It was ridiculous-I'm walking out of the studio and I run into John Mayer. “I think 'Outta My Head' is definitely my favourite because of just how timing came into play. If I gotta walk onstage with a broken foot, I'm going to do it. I swear I could get into car crash after car crash, I'm making my way through wherever I got to go and I'm getting the job done. When I'm in the mix of everything, I'm on autopilot and I can't stop. I could hit up some of my favourite artists and be like, 'Yo, do you want to turn this into a collab and you want to hop on it?'” Although there were some that didn't make the album, that doesn't mean those won't have a life. I could've gone forever-there were like 30 more songs. “I feel like having enough songs for people to see different sides of me as an artist. It got brought back to my attention and I was like, 'I love this song so much, it has to find a way out.'” And this was actually one of the last songs I recorded for the album. “I think I did this song with SAFE in like 2016, 2017. If my mom doesn't like a song, it's not making the album.” The way that it sounds, the way that I see my friends dance to it and the fact that my mom really, really loves it-that was the tipping point. It gives me this level of nostalgia from one of my favourite areas of music, the '90s. “I love working with Stargate because every time I work with them, the melodies just flow right out of me. And there is definitely another Disclosure song floating out there somewhere in the world.” This beat was my second pick-until I sang on it and was like, 'Oh OK, this makes so much sense.' This song is so huge, it's just one of my favourite songs I've ever done. It was a little naive of me to go into the session expecting to walk out with a house record. “I love Disclosure so much, and they were on my wish list of people I wanted to collaborate with since I started music. All the songs just flew out of me, and 'Better' was definitely one.” I held all of that energy that I had on tour and it was just like, boom boom boom boom. I think I was fresh off of tour and I was like, I gotta create, I gotta. I wrote that in less than 10 minutes flat. “It's so crazy because that song floated out of me. That intensity-it's literally like it's punching you in the face.” 'Bad Luck' was so fitting to the intro it had to go right after.
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For Free Spirit, overall, the vibe's completely different-the melancholy tone, the melodies. “ American Teen started a little bit more up, a little bit more happy.
It's so cinematic and it washes over you, and I'm like, 'People have to hear this first.'” It was made to be the intro: I'm naming it 'Intro'. “I wanted people to find their own name for this song and what it means to them. Khalid talked through the stories and inspiration behind each song with Zane, so read along as you take it all in. “Now I get to release this at 20-21, so it's a completely different mind frame.” His much-anticipated second album, the 17-track Free Spirit-and its companion film of the same name, created by Khalid along with director Emil Nava-is a soulful, sober meditation on what he's learned in those intervening years and about what happens when you long for personal freedom but aren't yet totally sure what to do with it. “I wrote American Teen at 17 years old,” Khalid told Beats 1 host Zane Lowe.
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