“I was just a really lonely kid, and I really wanted a family, because mine was a mess,” ConanGray shared. When he realized his songs were striking a chord in people, he realized he could build a community of his own.
In an alternative timeline, 20-year-old Conan Gray would be in class right now. In 2017, he was a high school senior in Texas who had just come off UCLA’s waitlist. Then, his music video for “Idle Town”, a homemade folk-pop ode to his coming-of-age in Georgetown, Texas—the visuals show Gray singing into a plastic water bottle, suburban streets, a friend blowing out the candles on a heart-shaped birthday cake—had started amassing millions of views on YouTube.
Still, even after Gray signed with a major label, his online presence maintains that DIY feel, honest and unpolished. The singer-songwriter still does it all himself, because that’s how he likes it. When it comes to songwriting, Gray prefers his bedroom over studio sessions: “I met with a bunch of people I’d looked up to since I was a kid. But in the end, it was the stuff that I wrote on my own and the stuff that was personal that ended up being the best [fit],” he says.
He doesn’t necessarily need school for that, though. His desire to be understood and form connections is why he writes music and goes on tour. According to him, pop music makes feelings easy to understand, even the hard-to-explain ones. “It was just like a spark in my head,” he said. “No one ever understood what I was going through until I was telling them in songs.” That doesn’t mean the life that goes along with songwriting has been easy to adjust to.
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