Kehlani – Out The Window [Video]

Kehlani keeps the “Crash” era in the rearview and steps fully into the next chapter with the official video for “Out The Window”.

A soaked-in-feelings R&B short film that leans hard into late-’90s / early-2000s nostalgia. The song itself dropped earlier this month via Atlantic Records, running 4:17 and pairing Kehlani’s stacked harmonies with plush strings and soft, knocking percussion.

On the record, Kehlani is in full accountability mode. Written by Kehlani alongside Antonio Dixon, Ashton “SNW” Norful, Khris Riddick-Tynes and Talay Riley, and produced by Dixon and Riddick-Tynes, “Out The Window” is a plea not to toss an entire relationship away over late nights and half-truths.

The hook circles around that image of “throwing it out the window,” turning it into a metaphor for both the damage done and the stuff she’s promising to leave behind. It’s classic Kehlani territory: regretful, grown, and brutally honest, but still wrapped in a melody that feels like a slow dance in the kitchen at 2 a.m.

The video, released in late November 2025, makes those emotions tangible. Directed by Gabe Phoenix and Travis Colbert, it stitches together a series of mini-sets that all look like they were pulled straight from R&B’s golden video era: Kehlani in a payphone booth, Kehlani in a red-lit room surrounded by choreography, and eventually Kehlani in the rain, singing like the whole city is watching.
Leather fits, close-up performance shots and dramatic lighting give it that throwback feel without ever tipping into parody – it plays like a love letter to the videos many of us grew up on.

Visually, the single artwork already hinted at that direction: a stark, high-gloss close-up shot by photographer Markus Klinko, whose work is closely associated with that same era of R&B and pop iconography.

Sonically and visually, “Out The Window” feels like a bridge between where Kehlani landed on Crash in 2024 and the fifth studio album she’s been teasing for spring 2026. It’s a reminder that she can experiment and still come home to pure, slow-burn R&B when it counts.

Chart-wise, the single is already making noise, debuting on the Hot 100 and landing high on multiple R&B charts, while also topping the New Zealand Hot Singles tally.

But the real win is how fully realized the “Out The Window” world feels: song, cover, and video all pulling in the same direction, inviting you to sit with the mess of a breakup and the tiny, stubborn hope that maybe it isn’t over yet. Press play on the video and let it wash over you.