{"id":794488,"date":"2019-04-03T19:13:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T01:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=817523"},"modified":"2019-04-03T19:13:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T01:13:39","slug":"khalid-holds-out-hope-for-love-interest-in-new-song-dont-pretend-featuring-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/khalid-holds-out-hope-for-love-interest-in-new-song-dont-pretend-featuring-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Khalid Holds Out Hope for Love Interest in New Song \u2018Don\u2019t Pretend\u2019 Featuring Safe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Khalid<\/a> laments a love interest that continues to haunt him in his new song, \u201cDon\u2019t Pretend,\u201d which features Toronto\u2019s Safe. The song appears on the R&B singer\u2019s forthcoming Free Spirit<\/em> LP, which will be released on Friday. The album also features a collaboration with John Mayer (\u201cOutta My Head\u201d) and a song written by Father John Misty (\u201cHeaven\u201d).<\/p>\n

On new track \u201cDon\u2019t Pretend,\u201d Khalid\u2019s soothing voice reaches falsetto heights as he expresses his feelings for someone, which appear to be unrequited. \u201cI feel like I\u2019m losing you,\u201d he sings over a tender guitar-led melody, while admitting, \u201cNo, I never had you\/I\u2019m still picturing that you\u2019re mine.\u201d Yet, he holds out hope all the same. \u201cI feel like there\u2019s nothing for me here, but still I try.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cKeeping my phone alive\/Hoping that you\u2019ll call this time\/Thought I heard you ringing,\u201d he sings on the yearning chorus. \u201cYou know, I hear things sometimes\/Come alive, come alive\/Come alive, come alive\/Show me, don\u2019t pretend.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Khalid unveiled the first segment of his two-part Beats 1 Radio program on Apple Music, \u201cFree Spirit Radio<\/a>,\u201d which delves into his sophomore album. During part two, which airs Thursday at noon ET, Khalid revealed that Father John Misty wrote Free Spirit<\/em> song, \u201cHeaven.\u201d As Pitchfork<\/em><\/a> reports, Khalid told Beats 1\u2019s Zane Lowe that he \u201cwould never pass on singing a Father John Misty song and putting that on my album ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOne, he inspires me so much, so I feel like his voice, or my voice at least, is not too far off from his, because that\u2019s a voice that I grew up with, and I sat with and I lived with,\u201d Khalid said. \u201cI love that I got to take a song that he wrote and interpret it the way that it makes me feel. I love that when I listen to it, I hear him on it.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, that\u2019s a present. That\u2019s a gift,\u201d he continued. \u201cHow many people do you know out there who can say they\u2019ve sang a song that Father John Misty has wrote? The fact that he looks to me and he\u2019s like, \u2018You\u2019re going to do this song justice and you\u2019re going to sing this song the way that it should be sang\u2019 \u2013 Amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Khalid laments a love interest that continues to haunt him in his new song, \u201cDon\u2019t Pretend,\u201d which features Toronto\u2019s Safe. The song appears on the R&B singer\u2019s forthcoming Free Spirit LP, which will be released on Friday. The album also features a collaboration with John Mayer (\u201cOutta My Head\u201d) and a song written by Father […]<\/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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-794488","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 14:43:19","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}