Out The Window

Album: yet to be titled (2025)
Charted: 63
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Songfacts®:

  • "Out The Window" finds Kehlani desperately trying to salvage a damaged relationship. She takes responsibility for a mistake she made that has messed up a good thing, and pleads for another chance to make things right.
  • Released on November 7, 2025, the song arrived on the heels of Kehlani's hit "Folded." But while "Folded" saw folding clothes as a metaphor for handling heartbreak gently, "Out The Window" finds her taking the blame, regretting her actions. Kehlani has not said whether she wrote the two songs about a specific romance or as a universal experience not tied to a specific partner.
  • Kehlani wrote the song with Ashton "SNW" Norful, Talay Riley and the song's producers, Khristopher Riddick-Tynes and Antonio Lamar Dixon.

    Riddick-Tynes and Dixon also produced "Folded."

    "Out the Window" and "Folded" are similar in their use of rich, classic R&B influences, but "Out the Window" leans more heavily into live, melodic instrumentation like strings and soft percussion, giving it a cinematic and almost orchestral feel. "Folded" incorporates more contemporary R&B production, including guitar loops and rhythmic programming that give it a smoother, slightly pop-leaning groove.
  • The cover art was shot by celebrity photographer Markus Klinko, known for photographing album covers for Beyoncé's Dangerously in Love and Mariah Carey's The Emancipation of Mimi.

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