Parrish embraces shortcomings on the bouncy Keep On, warns a suitor she may cause heartbreak on Do U Dirty, courts no-strings-attached affection on the ‘90s-inspired throwback Distraction and flexes a defiant swagger on CRZY. SweetSexySavage is supposed to close that era of her life as it’s a feel-good work of positivity and independent self-discovery. all things that have been attacked.”Īfter her last few years, Kehlani doesn’t need any more drama. “I’m a young black, Spanish, Native American, queer. “I woke up and thought, ‘Oh, seven days until my album,’ and then I got the CNN notification saying Trump had been officially sworn in, and it sunk in,” the 21-year-old said, curled up on a couch inside the Atlantic Records offices on Inauguration Day. Her album was dropping just as the country was transitioning from President Barack Obama to Donald Trump, the latter arguably one of the most polarising candidates in American history. Yet the following morning, reality set in. The fast-rising R’n’B-pop singer-songwriter born Kehlani Parrish was days before the release of her long-awaited major-label debut, SweetSexySavage, an album newly out on Atlantic Records. Kehlani was in the midst of prepping her first world tour, a 60-city trek that will also include a stop at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
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