Like, ‘What’s going on in your head? I don't know what you're talking about, and you're calling me insane, but let's get this clear: You are the crazy one in the situation. It was like, ‘Oh, Conan, you're so manipulative and crazy and you've been telling all my friends this and you've been saying this and this and that.’ I was just so confused. I had just gotten this crazy text from someone that I hadn't talked to in months. “‘Maniac’ is a song that I wrote in the shower. It was a weird, bittersweet feeling, because on one side you're thinking, ‘Yay, they like me and they have feelings for me and they like me back.’ On the other side you're thinking, ‘Why can't you tell me this when you're sober? Why can't you tell me this in daylight?’ I think the song is about all those mixed emotions and all the craziness behind being young and getting super drunk and calling someone and telling them that you love them.” I wrote it about this person who I really, really liked and I wrote a lot of songs on my album about them and they just wouldn't tell me that they liked me back or would never tell me their true feelings unless they were blackout drunk. “It's a song that I ended up sticking on the album last minute ’cause it was so much fun when I was making it. The second I wrote it, I was like, this feels so much like me as a person, so that's also why it's the first track on the album and it's the oldest one that I've written that's on the album.” We would just sit around on the couch and show each other stupid things on our phones and enjoy each other's company without even having to talk at all. They're the ones who keep me sane, so I just wanted to be with them and hang out with them the way we used to. I was so homesick and I missed my friends back home so much. To go from this small town to a massive city with tons of people from all across the world: It was a total realignment of who I was, everything that I wasn't used to. “I'm from a small town in Texas called Georgetown, like an hour away from Austin. I think what binds them all together in my head is just that they're all me.” Here, Gray tells us the stories behind every song on the album. These are all songs that I wrote completely by myself in my room, and I feel like anyone who listens to the record can hear my voice in every one. “It sounds the same way that I speak normally. “I feel like I write in a way that's very conversational,” Gray says. I had a dark enough past as a kid, and so in my teen years and adult years, I just kind of laugh at the things that go wrong in my life.” Gray’s personality is on full display throughout Kid Krow, a set of post-genre bedroom pop that has all the candour and content of a good diary. “All of my friends and my fans know that I'm a cynical person. “My friends have always joked that if I were an animal I would be a crow,” Gray tells Apple Music. The title of Conan Gray’s debut LP could also be the 21-year-old singer-songwriter’s superhero name.
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