Ticket buyers will receive an additional email with redemption instructions to receive their albums. No wonder, i-D crowned him “gen z’s ascendant king of sad boy pop,”, MTV called him its new “Prince of Pop”, and Paper praised his, “unprovoked honesty.”Įvery online ticket purchased comes with one (1) CD of Conan Gray’s upcoming album. Meanwhile, his Sunset Season EP put up impressive numbers, generating a staggering 80 million streams as he averages over 2.3 million monthly listeners on Spotify. Most recently, his single “The King” clocked over 7 million Spotify streams and counting. A string of hits has vaulted him to the forefront of modern pop.
Gray continues to make major waves on his own terms. “The Comfort Crowd” Tour follows his recent sold out European tour, and a momentous North American spring headline tour that saw him perform to sold out crowds in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Toronto, to name a few. Not to mention he’ll be making his festival debut this year at Lollapalooza and Life is Beautiful Festival. Louis, MO, performs in major markets across the country including New York’s Terminal 5 on November 12th, and concludes with a three-night stand at The Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles, CA December 11-13th (third date recently added!).
The six-week run kicks off October 29 at The Pageant in St. Not to mention this fall he returns to the road for his next North American headline, “The Comfort Crowd” Tour. If you wanna play this game, I’m gonna win.’” “Checkmate” was my last draw my way of saying “I’m done with these games. They’d call me super drunk in the middle of the night telling me they loved me, then they’d spend the next week cold and ignoring me. It took me about four minutes, and I just ugly cried out a whole song about this person I liked who was always playing games with my heart. On “Checkmate” Conan Gray said “‘Checkmate’ is a song that spewed out of me while alone in my bedroom. Even at Gray's most yearning and emotionally wrought moments, he's got the charisma to get you singing along.By Jameelah "Just Jay" Wilkerson 0 Conan Gray – Checkmateīuzzing 20-year-old pop singer-songwriter Conan Gray has released a song to kick off your holiday weekend: “Checkmate” out today! He sings, "And when I was younger, I knew a boy and a boy/Best friends with each other, but always wished they were more/'Cause they loved one other, but never discovered/'Cause they were too afraid." Later, he offers hope, singing "Oh, and I'm afraid that's just the way the world works/But I think that it could work for you and me." Ultimately, Kid Krow is charming and relatable for the same reasons Gray's videos earned thousands of fans, presenting him as a talented, thoughtful kid just trying to navigate the slings and arrows of young adulthood. Similarly, on "The Story," he addresses teenage isolation and the difficulty some young people can have making emotional connections. This is especially true on the more low-key, acoustic songs like "Heather," where he details a poignantly unrequited love between a boy and another boy who is dating a girl. One of the aspects that makes Gray's songs so compelling is his candid point of view.
Similarly engaging are hooky cuts like "Comfort Crowd," "Maniac," and "Wish You Were Sober," tracks that surprisingly straddle the line between the hooky pop of Death Cab for Cutie and the mainstream anthems of Taylor Swift. Even the most sugary, dance-oriented songs - like "Checkmate," in which Gray calls out his gaslighting lover for lying and playing games - pack a truthful emotional wallop. While Gray's music is aimed at the teen and early twentysomething audience who grew up watching his vlog posts online, he is no lightweight presence here, incisively addressing issues of heartbreak, drug and alcohol abuse, and discovering one's sexual identity with a thoughtfulness that never feels callous or exploitative. Helping Gray is producer Daniel Nigro, who previously worked with such artists as Sky Ferreira, Carly Rae Jepsen, and Freya Ridings. The album, which follows his equally compelling 2018 EP, Sunset Season, finds him expanding upon his intimate, indie pop sound with a wider production palette that marries confessional lyrics to dance grooves and subtle electronic flourishes. On his full-length debut, 2020's Kid Krow, YouTuber turned pop auteur Conan Gray offers a coming-of-age album that showcases his knack for turning melancholy feelings of loneliness into buoyant pop confections.
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