- 2025-05-31
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MUSIC
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Conan Gray Releases New Song “This Song”
Last week, American singer-songwriter Conan Gray announced his upcoming fourth studio album “Wishbone” would be released on August 15, 2025 via Republic Records.
The album is the follow-up to the 2024 album “Found Heaven” and comprises 12 tracks, on which he worked with producers Dan Nigro, Ethan Gruska, Noah Conrad, Elvira Anderfjärd, and Luka Kloser.
Conan Gray has been writing the songs secret from his friends and label over the past two years.
From the album, he unveiled the first single called “This Song” on May 30, 2025.
The track was written by Conan Gray and produced by Ethan Gruska.
The accompanying music video was directed by Danica Kleinknecht, and filmed in Texas, staring American actor Corey Fogelmanis.
Conan Gray said of the song, “'This song' out everywhere now. Shot on film in a small town in my homestate Texas. Starring Corey Fogelmanis, and me. Directed by the incredible Danica Kleinknecht. Song produced by the only Ethan Gruska. Welcome to Wishbone.”- Conan Gray said of the album, “Over the past two years, I've been secretly writing songs. After shows in the basements of the venues, in the sheets of my hotel beds, in narrow gaps between tours- I'd come back home and write all the things i felt nobody wanted to hear. maybe even the things i didn't want people to hear. I didn't tell my friends. i didn't tell my label. After all, I didn't know i was making anything, and i had no plan to release any of it. But over time, I began to feel something I'd never felt before. I started to need the music. I listened in airports, in long cab trips, blaring in the shower. In heartbreak, then in joy. I started to play it for my friends, and they started to need it too. In car ride requests with the windows down, in a split pair of wired headphones on the subway home. It became an egregiously niche soundtrack to our own lives in real time, singing just for us.”
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He continued, “It felt like the music was reminding me who I am, at an experimental time in my twenties where 'who I am' had no definition at all. My driftwood childhood in Texas. My lucid summers in London. My blue striped bed sheets in my college apartment. I played the songs to the very first person I'd ever made music with, Daniel Nigro, and I began to record. I didn't know why I was recording, I just was. I didn't know what story I was telling, I was just living in it. Slowly I started to see myself in full picture. The slivers of myself i'd always been, but never faced. The songs I'd always been writing, but never singing. Before I knew it I was surrounded by an album. That album is Wishbone.”
He added, “Music produced by the people who make my favorite music: Daniel Nigro, Ethan Gruska, Noah Conrad, Elvira Anderfjärd and Luka Kloser. Album cover shot by the great Dillon Matthew who shot my first album. embroidery by my best friend ashley Criminal Knits. Every song written by me in my bed in my pajamas. There's so much left to say, but i'll say it in the music.”
Photo by Dillion Matthew - source : Apple Music
