Kehlani will take fans down the Blue Water Road for her next album due this winter, she announced on Tuesday (Sept. 14).
The 26-year-old artist took to Twitter to share the minute-long trailer soundtracked by dramatic orchestral music, which shows Kehlani “coming out of the rubble of It Was Good Until It Wasnt and into the light, on to the road,” as she described it. The singer, who has an injured leg in the video, hobbles down the titular road and befriends a dragonfly that succumbs to a larger, unknown power.
The R&B singer released her second studio album It Was Good Until It Wasn’t on May 8, 2020. The project reached No. 2 on both the Billboard 200 and Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts.
One fan on Twitter noticed the continuity in the imagery from IWGUIW, which depicted on its cover art the “Toxic” singer escaping the chaos on one side of a brick wall only to find out the other side doesn’t promise an easier life, to Blue Water Road. “WAIT THIS MAKES SENSE!!! So your leg was hurt from the It was Good Until It Wasn’t Cover!” Twitter user @_serialov3r wrote. The Grammy-nominated singer shared the theory with the bullseye emoji to commend the fan for nailing it.
Watch the official trailer for Blue Water Road and see Kehlani’s announcementbelow.