![]() ![]() A few of these include Father John Misty and Frank Ocean. Khalid has a variety of musical influences, and these include people who are not only great musicians, but great songwriters as well. And I'm happy, I'm proud, and I like it." I'm an African-American, I was 18 and 17 and 19 over the course of the album, and I'm exactly that. ![]() "If I'm honest with myself, which is what I like to be, I was like, I'm a military kid. Naturally, the album title came from this collection of songs, and as Khalid explains, he wanted it to be an introduction to who he is as an individual. Stories that my friends went through, stories that I saw other people go through, and it was just all about putting that together, compiling it, and just expressing my youth especially." "It was almost like everything that I went through over the span of all of my high school career until now just created all of these different stories that I was able to share throughout the album. He may be in his last year of being a teenager now, but the stories in the tracks of his debut release happened when he was 17, 18, and 19 years old. The songs in American Teen are reflective of Khalid's teen years. ![]()
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