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American Teen is the debut studio album by American singer Khalid. In October , the album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA for accumulating over one million in combined pure sales and album-equivalent units. The lead single from the album, called " Location " was released on January 26, The promotional single "Reasons" was released on December 2, , but was not included on American Teen.

How Khalid, made his debut album, 'American Teen,' while barely out of high school. Khalid Robinson is zigzagging through galleries at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art when a disturbing canvas stops him in his tracks. It depicts a naked man with a vertical gash in his torso, through which a second naked man, covered in blood, drifts outward. Khalid is a year-old pop prodigy with a lovely, leathery voice and a knack for big, breezy sing-songs. His debut album, American Teen, came out a few months ago , and although it pulses with euphoric dance beats, Eighties synths and tales of marijuana-and booze-fueled high school raging, melancholy is never far away, either. The album is full of fragile relationships — friends having a blast only to grow apart; lovers yearning for one another only to get caught up in passive-aggressive mind games.

On the surface it seems harmless enough -- camera crews follow a group of small-town students during their senior year of high school for a film project designed to capture the transitional moments between childhood and adulthood. The film that sparked a bidding war after its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January -- and earned Burstein honors for directing -- also has been criticized as too glossy and too willfully mainstream. Some question its authenticity. For this project, Burstein said she set her sights on capturing the rituals of the teenage years as honestly as possible.

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