Khalid says new album, ‘Sincere,’ was initially hard to name
Written by ABC Audio. All rights reserved. on August 1, 2024
The time’s come for Khalid to release his album Sincere, but coming up with the title wasn’t easy.
“It was a very difficult process in naming this album because I had to find one name that summed up what I really felt in this music. And when I thought of the music, I thought of it as my most vulnerable in a while because when I’m thinking of these songs, I’m saving them over the year like, ‘OK, no, I have to keep this. OK, I have to keep this,'” he tells Zane Lowe. “And that’s vulnerable because I’ve known the impact that that song had to me when I was in the studio. And so I believe that if I trust my intention and I trust my heart, then it’ll have a similar impact to my listener.”
Sincere is Khalid’s follow-up to 2019’s Free Spirit. He says after his rise to fame he “didn’t have free time to sit” and decided to take a break.
“When I think of music and I think of discovery, the universe will bring that music to who it’s intended to listen. So, if I’m going to take this break, when I come back, I’ll come back with more clarity. I’ll come back with a better choice of decisions, more maturity, more knowledge,” he said. “So when I think of the listener, even if that listener may have not listened to me in a while, if it’s meant to be discovered, then I truly believe in the power of music doing that.”
Sincere features 16 songs, including “Heartstroke,” which Khalid says came from a “very passionate place” becoming reinspired by his music and “thinking of my interests and thinking of songs that I love.” It arrives Friday.
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