Khalid has appeared on tracks with Kendrick Lamar and Future, and he’s befriended Kylie Jenner, who gave his breakout hit, “Location,” a crucial boost when she played it on her Snapchat. American Teen debuted at Number Nine and is already certified gold. Technology references – cellphone photo albums, ride-share apps, GPS pins – pop up constantly, sometimes enabling connections, sometimes crippling them. The album is full of fragile relationships – friends having a blast only to grow apart lovers yearning for one another only to get caught up in passive-aggressive mind games.
His debut album, American Teen, came out a few months ago, and although it pulses with euphoric dance beats, Eighties synths and tales of marijuana-and booze-fueled high school raging, melancholy is never far away, either. Khalid is a 19-year-old pop prodigy with a lovely, leathery voice and a knack for big, breezy sing-songs.
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