On the more interesting songs, Khalid glides to the background as another artist draws the spotlight. But you don’t listen to a Khalid song to parse it closely. It’s hard to pinpoint the slippery subtext or to find deeper meaning in a line like, “I’m the one you need to be around, ’cause I won’t bring you down.” Sometimes, just being is the whole plot: On “Present,” Khalid asks a love interest for permission to “be present,” winding his way through pick-up lines that sound like they could’ve been generated by a meditation app. The theme is less architecture and more, as Khalid might say, a mood the songs meander, Khalid’s voice undulating in layers over sparse, twinkling beats. Scenic Drive is a concept record, and Khalid goes all in on driving metaphors, murmuring about roads and back seats and Lamborghinis.
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