{"id":484481,"date":"2019-04-09T12:09:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T18:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=820139"},"modified":"2019-04-09T12:09:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T18:09:23","slug":"khalid-road-trips-with-friends-in-free-spirit-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/khalid-road-trips-with-friends-in-free-spirit-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Khalid Road Trips With Friends in \u2018Free Spirit\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/khalid-free-spirit.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/khalid\/\" id=\"auto-tag_khalid\" data-tag=\"khalid\">Khalid<\/a> embarks on a search for self-discovery and a good time in the freewheeling video for \u201cFree Spirit,\u201d the title track off the singer\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-khalid-free-spirit-817798\/\">new record<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The \u201cFree Spirit\u201d clip was adapted from the Emil Nava-directed <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ngasa_ofWSE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">short film<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/khalid-sophomore-album-free-spirit-short-film-800891\/\">accompanied<\/a> the album\u2019s release and primarily features footage of Khalid and the rest of the cast laughing, partying, dancing and cruising around the country in a custom \u201cFree Spirit\u201d van. The end of the video, however, hints at the darker edges of the <em>Free Spirit<\/em> short film, closing with an eerie shot of one of the friends clutching his arm on a convenient store floor, while the cashier lies bloody behind the register.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Khalid released <em>Free Spirit<\/em> last week. The album features collaborations with Father John Misty and Disclosure and follows the Texas singer\u2019s celebrated 2017 debut, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/khalid-how-a-lonely-teenager-made-the-years-freshest-most-surprising-debut-195908\/\"><em>American Teen<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Khalid will embark on a massive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/khalid-free-spirit-world-tour-dates-815977\/\">North American tour<\/a> in support of <em>Free Spirit<\/em> June 20th in Phoenix, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/khalid-free-spirit-music-video-820139\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khalid embarks on a search for self-discovery and a good time in the freewheeling video for \u201cFree Spirit,\u201d the title track off the singer\u2019s new record. The \u201cFree Spirit\u201d clip was adapted from the Emil Nava-directed short film that accompanied the album\u2019s release and primarily features footage of Khalid and the rest of the cast [&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-484481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 22:07:21","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\/484481","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=484481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}