{"id":481330,"date":"2019-01-25T06:55:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T13:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=784411"},"modified":"2019-01-25T06:55:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T13:55:22","slug":"tori-kelly-pivots-back-to-pop-on-change-your-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/tori-kelly-pivots-back-to-pop-on-change-your-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Tori Kelly Pivots Back to Pop on \u2018Change Your Mind\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/unnamed.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/tori-kelly\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tori-kelly\" data-tag=\"tori-kelly\">Tori Kelly<\/a> collaborated with\u00a0Jimmy Napes, best known for co-writing Sam Smith\u2019s \u201cStay With Me,\u201d on her urgent new single \u201cChange Your Mind.\u201d The singer\u2019s September album,\u00a0<em>Hiding Place<\/em>, was a gospel record, but she transitions back to the secular here: \u201cHe spoke to me like the rain\/I knew that I would have to see him again\/And as he poured out his heart on me\/I was a moth to a flame.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChange Your Mind\u201d is acoustic and unhurried. Swelling pianos and massed backing vocals serve to push the song towards a climax. Kelly is known for her forceful singing style, and the bare arrangement allows her to hurl her voice around.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly\u2019s last secular album,\u00a0<em>Unbreakable Smile<\/em>, came out in 2015. It spawned three different hit singles, all of which cracked the Hot 100, and eventually earned a platinum certification.\u00a0<em>Hiding Place\u00a0<\/em>did not enjoy the same mass appeal, but it did earn an audience in the gospel community: \u201cHelp Us to Love,\u201d a collaboration with the HamilTones, and \u201cNever Alone,\u201d with Kirk Franklin, both became gospel hits.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly embarks on 26-date tour starting February 25th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/tori-kelly-change-your-mind-784411\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tori Kelly collaborated with\u00a0Jimmy Napes, best known for co-writing Sam Smith\u2019s \u201cStay With Me,\u201d on her urgent new single \u201cChange Your Mind.\u201d The singer\u2019s September album,\u00a0Hiding Place, was a gospel record, but she transitions back to the secular here: \u201cHe spoke to me like the rain\/I knew that I would have to see him again\/And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-481330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 02:30:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}