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You wrote \u201coutta time\u201d with A.K. Paul 10 years ago. What was it like to hold onto that song for that long?<\/strong><\/p>\n I would say that it feels stamina-building. I feel like my patience is strong. \u200aI just feel a lot more comfortable about taking my time. And there is a really good time for something. \u200aI love that I waited till now because it does feel like the right record for it to live on, and it also feels like the right time. \u200aFor me as an artist, the groundwork that I have laid up to this point, I think that there\u2019s some way that it\u2019s landing differently than maybe it would\u2019ve landed before. \u200aBut then I think the other aspect of that is that people externally are more primed for that song as well in certain ways.<\/p>\n That song references some things that happened a long, long time ago. \u200aIt\u2019s very true that there is so much more music right now that feels like it wants to go there, maybe more than it did 10 years ago.<\/p>\n In addition to A.K. Paul, you have some fun features on this album. I was thrilled to see you collaborate with PinkPantheress again, and it was great to see Foushe\u00e9. What was it like working together?<\/strong><\/p>\n With PinkPantheress and Foushe\u00e9, I\u2019m trying to choose people I respect and trust as a starting point\u2014their lens, their vision for themselves, their scope. I trust their taste. \u200aI played Foushe\u00e9 a couple other songs, more guitar-forward songs. And I was thinking, like, maybe she would want this. And I also played her the song that she\u2019s on, which is more dance-y. She\u2019s like, \u201cOh, I wanna get on this.\u201d \u200aAnd I was like, \u201cOh, I love that you chose that.\u201d And then she slid in like 20 minutes.<\/p>\n I peeped a sneaky La Chat sample in \u201cidea 1,\u201d<\/em> which made me curious: Is there any other \u201cear candy\u201d on the album that you want to share with fans?<\/strong><\/p>\n The clue is: \u201cYou know what?\u201d<\/p>\n What were you listening to in preparation to make the album?<\/strong><\/p>\n I was revisiting a lot of music that I had listened to in a more formative time for me. \u200aI made a playlist called \u201cWhite Bag,\u201d because I was like, I\u2019m about to get in my white bag<\/em>. \u200aAnd it\u2019s not about all guitar being a white thing, but socially, there\u2019s an implication. There\u2019s just a way that white people also rate you more when you pick up a guitar. \u200aLike Metric, Morning View<\/em> by Incubus, this band called Buke and Gase\u200a, and the Fiery Furnaces that I used to be really obsessed with. Laura Marling was on there. It\u2019s an important playlist. As soon as I told my friends, they were like, \u201cUm, excuse me, Kelela. I\u2019m making my own \u2018white bag\u2019 playlist.\u201d<\/p>\n I want to talk about fashion quickly. With this album reflecting a sonic shift, will that also show up in what you\u2019re wearing on stage?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.vogue.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You wrote \u201coutta time\u201d with A.K. Paul 10 years ago. What was it like to hold onto that song for that long? 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