So it's just crazy how one song can just change everything in my life. He says, "Without that song I don't feel like I'd be in the position that I am right now. But aside from the rejection he faced at that time, "Location" has become very successful for the 19-year-old. No doubt whoever Khalid wrote this song for, they are kicking themselves now. And I wrote it towards someone, and they didn't accept it. I actually wrote it around my senior year prom.
And there are trials, and some of those trials did well, but 'Location' was the big baby that I crafted and released to the world, and it just exploded.
I felt like everything before then was just kind of like templates. "The song 'Location,' it means so much to me because I feel like that was the first step of me finding my true self as an artist. He wrote the song around prom time during his senior year in high school, as part of a prom-posal. "Location" has been getting a lot of buzz lately, and it happens to be a very special song for Khalid. And she's hands down probably my biggest influence when it comes to music." To learn things throughout music and to always keep it within your life. And she really raised me to just accept music for what it is. Well, she just retired, so she's out, but she still sings. "It's almost like she's nurturing you through the music, and that's everything that I want to do."Īnd the biggest music influence of all? His mom. And if that girl power wasn't enough, he looks to the soulful Sade. Khalid explains he's a big fan of girl groups like Destiny's Child, SWV, and En Vogue because that's what his mother listened to while he was growing up. He says of Frank, "The way that he expresses things throughout all the words and melodies is amazing."īut that's not all.
A few of these include Father John Misty and Frank Ocean. Khalid has a variety of musical influences, and these include people who are not only great musicians, but great songwriters as well. And I'm happy, I'm proud, and I like it." I'm an African-American, I was 18 and 17 and 19 over the course of the album, and I'm exactly that. "If I'm honest with myself, which is what I like to be, I was like, I'm a military kid. Naturally, the album title came from this collection of songs, and as Khalid explains, he wanted it to be an introduction to who he is as an individual. Stories that my friends went through, stories that I saw other people go through, and it was just all about putting that together, compiling it, and just expressing my youth especially." "It was almost like everything that I went through over the span of all of my high school career until now just created all of these different stories that I was able to share throughout the album. He may be in his last year of being a teenager now, but the stories in the tracks of his debut release happened when he was 17, 18, and 19 years old. The songs in American Teen are reflective of Khalid's teen years.
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