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The beautiful and always talented Kehlani returns. The songstress had a pretty good year in 2020, working with a range of talented artists. She also released her sophomore album; It Was Good Until It Wasn’t. Now she is back with a brand new project for our listening enjoyment. This one is titled ‘Blue Water Road.’ Kehlani recently opened up about the track and what inspired the album. She stated: “That process is dictating everything I’m currently doing in my life.”
Speaking candidly with Apple Music’s Nadeska about the project, she stated: “I have taken a huge leap into directing, a huge leap into film study, just a huge leap into all these interests that I had before that were just little passionate interests of mine that actually became full-time things that required actual application and dedication. And I’m actually heavily involved in it now, but it wouldn’t have been sparked if I hadn’t been forced into it by myself, essentially.”
Kehlani added, “I forced myself. But it felt more of a universal force than it was just me being like, ‘I got to do this.’ It was like, ‘Man, I know this is just time. If I really want this shit to happen, I got to make it happen.’ But I took all of that into this album, especially because I was very locked in pandemically. I’m going to turn that into a word. But I made this album majority pretty much with one person. I mean, me and Pop been working for a very long time. But when we discovered that we were on the same type of time at the writing camp and the camp we put together with all these producers and all these people, I was hopping around from room to room to room to work with, we were like, ‘We’re here with it. Why don’t we just keep building? It feels good.’ And so we just kept coming back to this studio every day until we had what really quickly felt like an album. We made this album in probably two months.”
The album is led by the singles “Altar,” “Little Story,” and “Up At Night.” It also includes features from BLXST, Justin Bieber, Syd, Jesse Reyez, Thundercat, and Ambré. Check out the impressive new album in the stream below, and look for more from Kehlani coming very soon. In the meantime ,keep it locked with The Culture Curators for more new music coming soon.
