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How’s Khalid’s New Song “New Normal,” Performed At The Virgin Galactic Launch, Is Actually Inspired By Space · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from hood Ryan Seacrest. Richard Branson made history on
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  Speaker 1: Sunday when he and a handful of his Virgin Galactic
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  Speaker 1: colleagues became the world's first space tourists, hitting zero gravity
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  Speaker 1: Ain't nearly fifty three miles above Earth while backed down
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  Speaker 1: on the ground. College debuted his new single New Normal
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  Speaker 1: as part of the launches festivities, and it could have
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  Speaker 1: been a more fitting song for the event because it
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  Speaker 1: was originally inspired by Collete's own interest with the Cosmos.
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  Speaker 1: He tells Rolling Stone, I think he was super fascinated
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  Speaker 1: and gravitated towards space after observing the comment Neal Wise,
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  Speaker 1: space travel is something I've always been interested in as
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  Speaker 1: well and understand this new post modern future, especially when
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  Speaker 1: it comes down to technology. Writing this song was also
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  Speaker 1: my way of coping with anxiety. But to me, this
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  Speaker 1: song just embodies hope for the outcome of our future.
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  Speaker 1: Khalid won't officially release New Normal until the one be
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  Speaker 1: check out the video of his Virgin Galactic performance at
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  Speaker 1: on airth Ryan dot com that's direct from Hollywood