FREE SPIRIT
At a middle school dance somewhere in America, hundreds of students are getting rowdy to "Thotiana" while the chaperone tells the DJ to spin something else, something less vulgar. Something like Khalid. He mainly sings about love, never too deep or personal, like he got inspiration from a Netflix original movie starring Noah Centineo. The 21-year-old is maturing, he can drink now and smokes a little more weed than he did before, and his second album, Free Spirit, comes at a time in which Khalid is both a Billboard Hot 100 and figuring out if he should be the same teenager that first found success with "Location" or if his music should age with him. Free spirit is Khalid's new album of 2019. Free Spirit is Khalid's recent album in 2019. While I was listening to Free Spirit, I still felt that special pop feeling like "8teen". With lyrics like "Can, you feel the tension? You've got my attention/I know we're just friends, but I'd rather be together instead" from his song Outta My Head with John Mayer, his songs sound like they
belong in the trailer for a cliché high school romance movie on Netflix. I also felt that chill summer feeling when listening to songs like "Talk" or "Right Back." Although songs like "Don't Pretend" or "Paradise" was hard to hear any real emotion behind the lyrics. The album still was pretty good for a pop artist like Khalid who's singles usually hit. My personal favorite songs from this album are "Talk" "Right Back" and "Outta My Head" because like I said before it has that Khalid feeling that we all love. Even though Khalid is getting older from the high school Khalid and his life has changed drastically from his 2017 album "American Teen." Not much has changed about him the result from his music is always the same generic Khalid.
By: Israel Zermeno