.ConanGray is already a superstar to the under-25 crowd. It's time for everyone else to catch up.
with The 1975’s lead singer Matty Healy sent Gray’s fans into a tizzy, and he’s opened California dates for Panic! At the Disco. On YouTube Gray now has 1.8 million subscribers; there’s another 1.4 million on Instagram. Even though his debut albumdoesn’t drop until this Friday, his available songs have already been streamed on over 400 million times across various platforms.
“There’s one in particular that my sister still has on her flip phone from when we were living somewhere in the middle of California,” he said. “I was maybe six or seven and it’s literally a song about the toilet. I’m on a skateboard in our bathroom singing a song about the toilet. I don’t remember how it goes, but I think there were a lot of poop jokes in there.”
In Gray’s case, it wasn’t so much that he was scouted from the internet based on young promise. Rather, he emerged almost fully formed after being nurtured online. A song called “Idle Town,” a wistful ode to his senior year of high school and his Small Town, USA youth leading to his big break. The video for the song cuts between filtered footage of the singer hanging out with his friends, and Gray walking alone down a suburban street while mouthing lyrics into a water bottle, Chalamet-esque black hair bouncing as he moves.
“I had 100,00 subscribers and was like ‘Oh, that’s a lot of people,’ but in my head I didn’t really understand what 100,000 people were,” he said. “I put it up and within a week it had gotten a half million views and I was like, ‘Wow, that’s a lot of views,’ but I didn’t really realize that that was a lot, you know? I didn’t get it. I’m a normal high schooler, and in my head I think that what’s so beautiful about the internet is you can become really famous out of your bedroom.
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