{"id":2443692,"date":"2019-05-02T11:44:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T17:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=830437"},"modified":"2019-05-02T11:44:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T17:44:30","slug":"watch-khalid-float-through-talk-better-at-billboard-music-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/watch-khalid-float-through-talk-better-at-billboard-music-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Khalid Float Through \u2018Talk,\u2019 \u2018Better\u2019 at Billboard Music Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/khalid-bbmas.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> delivered a double shot of songs from his new album, <em>Free Spirit<\/em>, performing \u201cTalk\u201d and \u201cBetter\u201d at the Billboard Music Awards Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Khalid opened with \u201cTalk,\u201d floating through the track with impeccable ease, and even tossing in a few new vocal runs while a troupe of back-up dancers moved behind him. The singer kept the same vibes up during \u201cBetter,\u201d adding a few more dancers and waltzing down the stage towards the crowd as he belted the song\u2019s final hook, \u201cNothin\u2019 feels better than this\/Nothin\u2019 feels better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Along with Khalid, the Billboard Music Awards featured a hologram-enhanced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/billboard-music-awards-2019-madonna-maluma-perform-hologram-enhanced-medellin-829985\/\">performance of \u201cMedellin\u201d<\/a> from Madonna and Maluma, BTS and Halsey uniting to perform their new single, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/halsey-bts-boy-with-luv-billboard-music-awards-829960\/\">\u201cBoy With Luv\u201d<\/a> and Taylor Swift <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-me-brendon-urie-billboard-music-awards-829918\/\">opening the show<\/a> with the live debut of \u201cME!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Khalid released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-khalid-free-spirit-817798\/\"><em>Free Spirit<\/em><\/a> in April and the album follows his breakout 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>. The singer will embark on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/khalid-free-spirit-world-tour-dates-815977\/\">North American tour<\/a> in support of the new record June 20th in Phoenix, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/khalid-perform-talk-better-billboard-music-awards-830437\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khalid delivered a double shot of songs from his new album, Free Spirit, performing \u201cTalk\u201d and \u201cBetter\u201d at the Billboard Music Awards Wednesday. Khalid opened with \u201cTalk,\u201d floating through the track with impeccable ease, and even tossing in a few new vocal runs while a troupe of back-up dancers moved behind him. The singer kept [&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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 10:57:36","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}