![]() It gives me this level of nostalgia from one of my favorite areas of music, the '90s. “I love working with Stargate because every time I work with them, the melodies just flow right out of me. ![]() And there is definitely another Disclosure song floating out there somewhere in the world.” This beat was my second pick-until I sang on it and was like, 'Oh OK, this makes so much sense.' This song is so huge, it's just one of my favorite songs I've ever done. It was a little naive of me to go into the session expecting to walk out with a house record. “I love Disclosure so much, and they were on my wish list of people I wanted to collaborate with since I started music. All the songs just flew out of me, and 'Better' was definitely one.” I held all of that energy that I had on tour and it was just like, boom boom boom boom. I think I was fresh off of tour and I was like, I gotta create, I gotta. I wrote that in less than 10 minutes flat. ![]() “It's so crazy because that song floated out of me. That intensity-it's literally like it's punching you in the face.” 'Bad Luck' was so fitting to the intro it had to go right after. For Free Spirit, overall, the vibe's completely different-the melancholy tone, the melodies. “ American Teen started a little bit more up, a little bit more happy. It's so cinematic and it washes over you, and I'm like, 'People have to hear this first.'” It was made to be the intro: I'm naming it 'Intro.' No other name popped up in my head. “I wanted people to find their own name for this song and what it means to them. ![]() Khalid talked through the stories and inspiration behind each song with Zane, so read along as you take it all in. “Now I get to release this at 20-21, so it's a completely different mind frame.” His much-anticipated second album, the 17-track Free Spirit-and its companion film of the same name, created by Khalid along with director Emil Nava-is a soulful, sober meditation on what he's learned in those intervening years and about what happens when you long for personal freedom but aren't yet totally sure what to do with it.
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