Kehlani on the Meaning of Her New Album’s Apocalyptic Artwork
Over the last few years, through hurricanes of prying headlines, the sudden deaths of artist friends Mac Miller, Chynna, and Lexii Alijai, and the whirlwind of motherhood, Kehlani has continued to release a stream of intensely personal pop and R&B songs. So when the coronavirus hit and the singer’s label urged her to delay her sophomore album It Was Good Until It Wasn’t, or else take charge of the promotion of it herself, she got to work. In anticipation of California’s shelter-in-place order, the 25-year-old asked photographer and videographer Bri Alysse, who has been documenting Kehlani’s career since 2015, to move into her Los Angeles home.