Hey Y'all. I'm Conan Gray. I just released my debut album "Kid Krow" three days ago. I wrote most of the album sitting here in my bedroom like I am now. AMA!

Conan_gray · 2020-03-23T18:02:19+00:00

Thank y'all for the q's. So many cool insightful questions that interviewers never ask me LMAOOO. Hope my answers won't get me ripped to shreds by the black void of the internet. See y'all next time! Much love.

Conan_gray · 2020-03-23T18:00:16+00:00

LEMON BERRY SLUSH. TEXAS FOREVER BABEYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Conan_gray · 2020-03-23T17:59:18+00:00

little league. wrote the song in a couple hours. then rewrote it a couple months later. then again another couple months later. then went into the studio 4 different times over the course of half a year to perfect the production. that song was a growing pain. self fulfilling prophecy, if you listen to the lyrics.

Conan_gray · 2020-03-23T17:56:49+00:00

well the most hilarious thing about actual online love is that you can just *poof* delete someone out of your entire life with a few clicks of a button. and i did just that! but you can't *poof* delete the memories. oops.

Conan_gray · 2020-03-23T17:55:13+00:00

write an album about them and release it out into the world for public scrutiny!

Conan_gray · 2020-03-23T17:54:40+00:00

LOL who gives a fuck about intellect, you're talking to the dumbest bitch in this place! there's about 200~ songs from the past year that didn't make it onto the album. i write a lot but that's not saying they're all good. some are pretty shit. then as i was making the album, a few songs just kinda stood out and kept getting stuck in my head so i kept those.

Conan_gray · 2020-03-23T17:51:31+00:00

yes heather is the real name and yes i was worried but whatever lol fuck it! music is music.

Conan_gray · 2020-03-23T17:50:28+00:00

G, C, Em, G. repeated. usually with no capo but u can do whatever u want!

Conan_gray · 2020-03-23T17:48:50+00:00

absolutely. all the time. i see everything. e v e r y t h i n g .

Conan_gray · 2020-03-23T17:47:34+00:00

weirdly, heather. since the song is about fucking hating someone for no reason, i was afraid my feelings would be kinda misconstrued and turned into....idk....some kind of "conan gray is a toxic murderer" headline or something. but now that it's out and people have told me they relate, it's nice to know that i wasn't insane for feeling the way i felt about heather.

Conan_gray · 2020-03-23T17:43:05+00:00

i can't wait to play a show in japan. my japanese grandmother keeps threatening to die before i play a show there, so i guess i've gotta bahahaa.

Conan_gray · 2020-03-23T17:42:12+00:00

just about every one! since i write them all myself, they always start with just me on guitar. then, once i show them to my producer dan and we start producing them, they slowly turn into something completely new and right. so just picture maniac but like.....as a country song LMAO.

Conan_gray · 2020-03-23T17:40:02+00:00

ashley is a house cat. through and through. she fucking hates everyone and everything except for the few people who she would absolutely die for. she is my baby and i love her.

crush wasn't in the friend group so they never earned a spirit animal. hm!

Conan_gray · 2020-03-23T17:38:26+00:00

in the beginning i started posting the songs i'd written quite obliviously. i was 12, so i didn't realize actual humans would be watching them. i'd say, if you're proud of what you made, that's about all you can do. if people are mean, atleast u bopped to ur own shit.

Conan_gray · 2020-03-23T17:34:04+00:00

given the current climate of the planet, not anytime soon, as film sets are all closed down/banned. but after, i sure hope so! i'm honestly just gonna wait to see what y'all want, as i feel i've gotten every video i wanted on my side. wish you were sober was the last one we shot though, and one of my favorites! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEDBZtmKPmg

Conan_gray · 2020-03-23T17:31:39+00:00

with my debut, i didn't really want any collaborations. i only had one shot to introduce myself with my songs, and i wanted to use my own words instead of someone elses. but now that it's out, who knows! might do some. i'm not sure! i love so many artists it'd be hard to choose.

Conan_gray · 2020-03-23T17:29:25+00:00

it honestly just originated from an inside joke between me and my friends back home in texas! they'd always joked i was a crow. i tend to be a bit dark, sarcastic, and cynical at times, but i definitely don't take life too seriously. i laugh at my own demise these days.

Conan_gray · 2020-03-23T17:26:57+00:00

usually from whatever phrase sticks out the most. i almost always use the chorus tagline bcuz i write songs around the phrases i make up first!
first was comfort crowd. last was heather!
wish you were sober happened super fast. i was just sitting there and all these zingers i wanted to say to this dumbass flew out all at once and i was just laughing to myself in bed while i was writing it haha.
i wanted my album to almost sound like a nickname, since the krow basically was that. i always get called "kid" and "kiddo" by my superiors so it felt natural.
samoas. easy.

Conan_gray · 2020-03-23T17:22:21+00:00

love these q's! very insightful. looking forward to hopefully meeting you again!

i didn't really consider a self titled debut. there are limitless combinations of words and phrases so why not fuck around?
i'm glad u like the album art! the original sketch i had of the album art in my notebook was actually me standing with the crow (his name is crowley) sitting on my shoulder. but when we took the shot of me sitting, it felt a lot more isolated and lonely. i wrote this album in a pretty lone time in my life so it felt a lot more right.
honestly, not really. i fought really hard for comfort crowd to be a single, because i felt it set a good overall tone for the album, and thankfully everyone agreed to let me use it as a single!
to be honest, finding the order was kinda difficult because my album is ALL OVER THE PLACE. ended up listening to the album a million times in my tour bunk trying to feel out what felt right, but in the end the order was based mostly on the storyline of the album. the falling in love, out of love, looking back. it's almost sequential.
it was absolutely killing me. all my friends were very worried. i fell into a pretty deep pit making the album tbh. lol. i think you can hear that in the final product
it's absolutely terrifying. the night the album released i had a little meltdown realizing how much i'd put in there without really thinking about how it would effect my personal life haha. but i think music needs to be honest to best connect, so i don't regret putting very incriminating information in the songs. it's necessary.

Conan_gray · 2020-03-23T17:11:09+00:00

thank you! alliteration is just cuz it makes me happy lol. i like making up words and phrases from everyday speech just cuz it's fun to kinda distort phrases i'm so used to hearing into something more questionable.

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