“I’ve known Khalid for about maybe a little over a year now. We just immediately hit it off. It’s just a really, really awesome friendship, like talking all the time. When things first really started happening for him, we were always like always we gotta get together, we gotta make music, we gotta make music,” Shawn explained to Zane Lowe in a Beats 1 radio interview.
“And I was in London and I was very close to all that time, right after the Manchester thing. In London there was the attack on the bridge. And I remember that day thinking like, OK, I gotta text him. When I texted him, I said when we get together, we have to make a statement. We have to move. We have to write about what’s going on in life and how the youth is feeling because I think we have the voice to do that.”
Listen to “Youth” below! You can also download the song on iTunes.
Normani and Khalid recreate their music video during a performance on Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday night (April 10) in New York City.
The pair performed their song “Love Lies” from the Love, Simon soundtrack.
“I literally wanna do it a million more times. Amazing seeing you again,” Normanitweeted after the show.
In case you missed the big news, Normani has signed a solo record deal. The singer has signed with Keep Cool Records, a new label with RCA, in which she is the first artist signed.
Normani recently opened up about how scary it was to announce the Fifth Harmony break. See what she said here.
Khalid and Normani‘s “Love Lies” music video is here!
The “Location” crooner and the Fifth Harmony singer dropped the steamy video on Friday (February 16) after sharing the collaboration – from the Love, Simon soundtrack – with fans on Valentine’s Day.
It opens with Khalid clad in his white uniform as he serves as a hotel valet, texting Normani as they appear to plan to meet up in one of the rooms.
Watch the sultry video, directed by Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz, below to see what happens next.
The “Stay with Me” singer and the “Young Dumb & Broke” crooner snapped some pics at the event, hosted by Citi, at Soho House on Friday (January 26) in New York City.
“Where tf is my jacket,” Khalid captioned an Instagram photo of himself in his all-pink ensemble.
That same day, Khalid took the stage during the Nielsen Celebration of Music’s Big Night held at The Pool.
Check out a video of his performance below!
Be sure to catch the 2018 Grammys, hosted by James Corden, this Sunday at 7:30pm ET/4:30pm PT on CBS, where Khalid and Sam will both be performing.
