Khalid’s new album Free Spirit is out now, and it features a new song written by Father John Misty. The song is called “Heaven.” Listen below.
Khalid discussed it in an interview with Zane Lowe on Beats 1. Khalid called Misty offering him the song a “Cinderella moment.” “I would never pass on singing a Father John Misty song and putting that on my album ever,” he said. “If Father John Misty is like, ‘Yo, here, look here’s this song, you want to sing it?’ I’m like, ‘Hell yeah I want to sing that.’”
One, he inspires me so much, so I feel like his voice, or my voice at least, is not too far off from his, because that’s a voice that I grew up with, and I sat with, and I lived with. I love that I got to take a song that he wrote and interpret it in the way that it makes me feel. I love that when I listen to it, I hear him on it. For me, that’s a present, that’s a gift. How many people do you know out there who can say that they’ve sang a song that Father John Misty has wrote? The fact that he looks to me and he’s like, “You’re going to do this song justice, and you’re going to sing this song the way that it should be sang.” Amazing.
Free Spirit also features Khalid’s collaboration with Disclosure, “Talk.” Father John Misty released his new album God’s Favorite Customer last year. He’s touring with Jason Isbell this summer.
Read Pitchfork’s 2017 feature “Here Is the Scandalous Father John Misty Interview You’ve Been Waiting For.”
This article was originally published on April 3 at 6:27 p.m. Eastern. It was last updated on April 5 at 12:00 a.m. Eastern.
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