{"id":482840,"date":"2019-02-28T13:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T20:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=800891"},"modified":"2019-02-28T13:00:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T20:00:02","slug":"khalid-announces-sophomore-album-free-spirit-short-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/khalid-announces-sophomore-album-free-spirit-short-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Khalid Announces Sophomore Album \u2018Free Spirit,\u2019 Short Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Khalid-RoLexx-0630182609-PRESS-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/khalid\/\" id=\"auto-tag_khalid\" data-tag=\"khalid\">Khalid<\/a> will release his sophomore album <em>Free Spirit<\/em>, the much-anticipated follow-up to his acclaimed 2017 debut <em>American Teen<\/em>,\u00a0on April 5th.<\/p>\n<p>While talking with\u00a0<em>Rolling Stone<\/em>, the Grammy-nominated artist previewed a bit of how the LP came together. \u201cI\u2019ve written these songs all over the world \u2014 in hotel rooms, tour buses, backstage,\u201d the El Paso, Texas singer said. He gave an early taste of the album with the recently released single \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y1QZOprK7PQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Talk<\/a>,\u201d a synth-pop slow jam that encourages honest communication. \u201cI\u2019ve learned how to talk about my anxieties in music,\u201d he says. \u201cA lot of people my age are struggling with being themselves in the world. I want to let them know I feel the same things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the album release, Khalid will be the musical guest on the March 9th episode of <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>. Then, on April 3rd, the singer will debut a companion film that will screen in theaters worldwide. The film screening will also allow for a fan listening event in the various cities. He has yet to provide details or a preview of what to expect from the film.<\/p>\n<p>Between\u00a0<em>American Teen<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Free Spirit<\/em>, Khalid dropped the EP\u00a0<em>Suncity.\u00a0<\/em>His track \u201cSaturday Nights\u201d was recently remixed by Kane Brown. Khalid also seamed with Halsey to be on Benny Blanco\u2019s recent hit \u201cEastside,\u201d which peaked at Number Nine on the Hot 100.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/khalid-sophomore-album-free-spirit-short-film-800891\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khalid will release his sophomore album Free Spirit, the much-anticipated follow-up to his acclaimed 2017 debut American Teen,\u00a0on April 5th. While talking with\u00a0Rolling Stone, the Grammy-nominated artist previewed a bit of how the LP came together. \u201cI\u2019ve written these songs all over the world \u2014 in hotel rooms, tour buses, backstage,\u201d the El Paso, Texas [&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-482840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 17:51:31","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\/482840","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=482840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}