Speaking of this year's high-profile European and American rookies, it is absolutely impossible not to mention conan Gray, a 22-year-old Asian mixed-race talent!
Conan Gray, who released his debut music album "Kid Krow" in March this year, parachuted into the fifth place on the US Billboard Billboard album chart in the first week of the album release, becoming one of the best newcomers in 2020; the song wrote down real love and growth from the perspective of Generation Z, successfully resonating strongly with the younger generation, and was strongly recommended by his idol music diva, Moldy Taylor Swift!
In the second half of this year, Conan Gray won the major song lists with the song "Heather" and the "Fake" with the popular American talent Lauv.
Conan Gray was born in California, usa, his father is Irish, his mother is Japanese, and he has experienced dozens of moves during his growth, coupled with the divorce of his parents, which makes the young Conan Gray have a sense of maturity beyond age.
He once said: "I started making music when I was 12 years old, and no one cared what I was doing, but I kept doing it because I loved music. My childhood was very hard, and many emotions wanted to be expressed through music. ”
In 2013, Conan Gray opened his own YouTube channel, showing his music and painting talents through videos, accumulating a large number of young fans.
In 2017, he became popular with the song "Idle Town", and the following year released his debut EP "Sunset Season", achieving a good second place in the Billboard Potential Albums Chart.
This year, Conan Gray picked up the painful fragments of growing up and love and assembled it into a stunning music album "Kid Krow", which in addition to making him more visible, he who regarded mold as an idol received strong recommendation from Tianhou on social media, "Not exaggerating, I will cycle this song for the rest of my life."
In addition to the popular singles such as "Wish You Were Sober" and "Maniac" in the album, "Heather" has set off a frenzy on the Douyin platform in recent months, and the song not only entered the US Billboard Billboard Hot Singles Chart, but also exceeded the 300 million mark in the global playback, so that its masterpieces can be added by one!
"Heather" tells the story of Conan Gray's object of affection, who actually likes a perfect girl named Heather, which is why Conan Gray hates Heather to the bone.
Conan Gray said that Heather always made him want to cry, and he thought the song was an honest description of his own emotional state.
"I think everyone has a Heater in their lives, and it's a shame to admit that they hate her, but that's the truth. I'm worried about what people think of the song, but I rarely hear people admit feelings like this. I still have to say sorry to Heather, you're actually a great person! ”
The song "Heather" also made Conan Gray get the praise of Elton John, the senior of the music industry, calling him "the only singer on the chart to write a good song on his own strength", and the bitter unrequited mood of nakedness without adding any filters in the song also made many young generations find resonance from it, and the word "Heather" has become a synonym for American teenagers to describe beautiful and lovely girls!
Interestingly, the first line of the lyrics sings "I still remember, third of December, me in your sweater." (I remember on December 3rd, I was wearing your sweater), which made December 3 the day of Heather.
And the record company specially launched an interesting fortune telling website, as long as you enter your name in this website, you can calculate the meaning of the name, perhaps Conan Gray never thought that one day when he created "Heather", he would become a fortune teller