It’s just all a weird experience since I was expecting to go to college and pursue that path. With everything that’s been going in my life, I’ve been feeling really isolated - not necessarily in a bad way. It’s currently unreleased but I like to sing it on tour because I think it really summarizes the way that I’ve felt the past year. “Comfort Crowd” is a track I’m really excited about. You have a single called “Comfort Crowd” coming out soon. It’s just a lot and chaotic, I don’t even know how to categorize it but I’m having an amazing time writing it. I think the album overall is a lot darker but it’s also just a lot. The older I get, the more I realize that people are very multi-faceted and it’s an extremely necessary part of the human experience to feel sadness and to be able to talk about it and feel it through music. I was afraid that people would judge me or feel worried about me and I just didn’t like the attention. I think when I was younger, I was a little scared to share when I wasn’t okay. I think overall the sound is getting a lot darker. Conan Gray Lollapalooza, Polaroid by Matt Torres/Soundazed With your new music, how do you feel your sound has developed? I’ll finish a song and then finally realize how I was a feeling during its creation. It’s interesting to see how fast a song happens for me sometimes because I think once a song unfolds for me, I’m finally saying something that’s been on my mind for a long time. I think I also come up with ideas, word vomit it all out, and then I’ll go back and pick everything apart so intricately. It’s interesting you say that since your lyrics seem more dense than whimsical. Songs just vomit out of my face and then they’re done. It’s fairly quick for me - I wrote “Checkmate” in like five minutes. Once I get the line out, then I usually finish the song out on guitar. I’ll be like taking a shit or something and it’ll suddenly come to me and then I sing into my phone to try to get it out as much as possible. I come up with a line just out of - I don’t know, they just come randomly. When you’re making music, do you normally start with a melody or a line? What’s your process?Īlways the melody. I don’t want to ruin anything for anyone, ya know? I think there’s definitely speculation and I feel like I should let people speculate what they want. Is this an ongoing theme for a larger upcoming release? Your last two singles, “The King” and now “Checkmate” make multiple references to Chess. I just love to do it, I feel like I’m a musician and singer because I love the process of making this stuff and everything else is just an interesting side effect. I wrote the entire video - directed, edited, and colored my last two videos as well. With everything I do, I’m extremely hands-on just because I enjoy doing it. It is a little dark, thank you! *laughs* I wrote the entire concept myself. Either date me or leave me the fuck alone.Ĭonan Gray Lollapalooza, Polaroid by Matt Torres/Soundazed You just released the video for the track last week and it’s a little dark. In a way, it’s also my final straw - like I’m tired of you fucking with my heart. So with this song, this was my way of saying that if you want to treat love like a game, I’m going to win it. That’s a song that I wrote about a person that I really really liked but they were always playing games with me. During your set today, you played your new single, “Checkmate.” Tell me a little about the track. Everyone was going absolutely insane – it felt like a dream – and I’m really not sure how this is even real life. Also, it was really damn hot and no one mentally prepared me for how hot it was going to be. I remember the crowd looking massive, it felt like it was never-ending. Honestly, when I go on stage I feel like I blackout and don’t really remember what’s going on.
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