8/25/2023 0 Comments Free spirit khalid albumThere’s a cruel irony that the release of The Cranberries’ final album should come just a week after journalist Lyra McKee was shot dead by the New IRA during a riot in Londonderry. You can’t really blame them for sinking into the undemanding beanbags of Khalid’s mid-tempo jams and passively inhaling his Grammy-nominated debut album, American Teen. Still, I know they’re stressed by the personal pressures of social media and overwhelmed by the global political and environmental crises. Mixing the smooth sounds of urban soul with angsty lyrics – about feeling alone and fretting over his mum smelling the dope he’d smoked in the car – he created a kind of mellow R&Bemo.Īlthough his sweetly grazed vocals are lovely, the Middle-Class Activist Mum in me wished that Gen Z had found themselves a more proactive hero. So it took him a while to process being named as “the voice of a generation” when his second single, “Young Dumb & Broke” became a global hit last year. A military kid, shunted between schools, states and countries throughout his childhood, 21-year-old Khalid says he always felt “like an outcast”.
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