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Why Khalid’s New Album Feels Like a Debut Album to Him · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Khaleed's new album, Sincere, marks his first in five years
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  Speaker 2: and third full length, but in many ways, it felt
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  Speaker 2: like an entirely fresh start to the talented singer songwriter,
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  Speaker 2: who tells Billboard, when I debuted, I was seventeen years old.
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  Speaker 2: I had no true sense of self. I wasn't even
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  Speaker 2: writing from my experience. As I feel like this album
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  Speaker 2: is exactly that. I took it back to basics and
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  Speaker 2: I approached it as if I was debuting as an
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  Speaker 2: artist all over again. It's like I'm coming right back
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  Speaker 2: to the start of my journey, but this time with
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  Speaker 2: more insight and knowledge. And while five years is a
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  Speaker 2: long time between projects, Khalid says he was motivated to
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  Speaker 2: make sure the album was released in twenty twenty four
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  Speaker 2: after a chance encounter in South Africa with a stranger
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  Speaker 2: who told him this year would be incredibly important to
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  Speaker 2: him the stranger Sincere
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  Speaker 1: Is out now, that's direct from Hollywood.