Recently, Conan Gray, an Irish-Japanese mixed-race little fresh meat, released his new album Superache ❤ Extreme Heartache.
The album is still very impressive, ranking ninth on the US Billboard Album Chart in the first week, selling 27,000 copies, plus the overall sales of streaming albums of 43,000.
Although it is not super first-line and sensational around the world, in fact, it is already a very good result, after all, many super-first-line actresses only sold 20,000 in the first week of their new albums.
Conan Gray, 23, was originally an influencer on youtube, a video platform, and gained attention for sharing his life as a Japanese mestizo.
Later, by chance, he signed a large company to debut as a singer, and gained many fans with his sincere and pure songwriting, delicate emotions and unique melancholy temperament plus delicate singing.
And the album Superache Extreme Heartache ❤ still maintains the style of the past, Conan's very sincere lyrics are very personal, he talks a lot about his past feelings, as he describes: "The creative process of this album is very painful, like scraping the last piece of flesh off my ribs." ”
The song "Family Line" from the new album is the best example, this is the album's Key Song, and it is also the song that best embodies the core concept of "extreme heartache".
The song is about his childhood experiences, Conan was born in Ireland into a mixed Family of Japanese Races, his mother is a Japanese woman, and his father is British, and their marriage was originally a transnational relationship, but in the end it was not happy.
Conan revealed in the song that when he was young, his father always beat his mother, and every day he was angry at home, causing him and his mother to suffer from domestic violence, and his mother was a very kind and timid woman, who always swallowed her anger and did not fight back.
It wasn't until he was three years old that his dad began to lose his temper with him and his sister that mom suddenly became a brave and fearless superwoman who resolutely filed for divorce and decided to leave his dad, who took him and his sister out of the family, from a housewife with no income, to a family propped up by herself.
Of course, the whole process is still very difficult, he moved from the age of three to eighteen, a total of 12 times, can be described as a homeless, and because of this, he always has no friends, has not yet adapted to a region before he is forced to move, the people around him are always changing to make him overwhelmed. And he has been very sad since he was a child, he is a Sad boy, from a young age, he is very envious of other people's families, envious of other people's families have a responsible father, envious of other people's families harmonious and happy.
So the pain of childhood also made Conan Gray unable to let go of his life, for his father is basically hatred and resentment, so he decided to use the way to share to release, he confessed that "Family Line" is the most difficult song he has ever written, before and after about two years to complete, because he always wrote and cried, thinking about the bad things growing up and the pain his mother experienced, he is really sad.
Other songs are also well written "Memories" is mainly about the other party after the breakup, the other party always harasses him, "Yours" is about his helplessness to others, all the songs are based on his personal experience.
For me, the greatest strength of Superache Extreme Heartache ❤ is that it is sincere, sincere and spiritual, Conan shares his real experience without reservation, and all the instruments and songs are asking for his emotional service, and he uses his torn singing voice to show the pain in his heart, expressing the loneliness in his heart, which makes people goosebumps.
The best thing about "Superache Extreme Heartache ❤" is that he is personal, real and sincere, without much commercial atmosphere, more like a close and good friend who complains to everyone through singing.
Compared with some big stars who have billions, have a family full of wealth and children, and have a happy life, but cry that they are tortured by life, work hard, and hope that others will treat her well, Conan Gray is much more sincere.
I think sincerity and sincerity are really the most valuable things in contemporary society, and no one wants to feel false emotions.