Conan Gray has launched a brand new unmarried, “Jigsaw,” on which he turns up the guitars and laments chaining himself to check out and please any individual else.
The only is the fourth to be taken from his as-yet-untitled 2nd album, which is due for unlock later this yr. “Astronomy,” “Telepath,” and “Folks Gazing” also are anticipated to characteristic at the report.
“I’ve modified each and every a part of me/Till the puzzle items aren’t me in any respect,” he sings over rock beats and searing guitars. “I glance within the replicate, now I’m only a jigsaw.”
“I wrote “Jigsaw” at the beginning as slightly of a diary access rant for myself,” Gray mentioned in a press unlock. “I’d spent my complete lifestyles contorting myself and converting the whole thing I was to be able to make everyone glad. I used to be so used to seeking to please everybody that, when it got here to like, I began to do the similar. I assumed perhaps if I get dressed a undeniable manner, act a undeniable manner, do my hair the way in which you’ll like, then perhaps you’ll in the end love me. It didn’t paintings, clearly.
“Via the tip of all of it, I stopped up having a look within the replicate and infrequently spotting my rearranged and twisted mirrored image. I’m hoping that “Jigsaw” is slightly of a caution to folks. That destroying your self to win any individual’s love will simplest depart you empty at the different facet. As a result of in spite of everything, that individual gained’t love you, simply the model of you that you simply made for them. As a substitute, select to grow to be any individual that you simply love.”
Gray’s 2nd report would be the follow-up to 2020’s Child Krow, which took the highly-lauded 23-year-old musician to No.5 at the Billboard 200. It contained the one “Heather,”, which reached No.46 at the Billboard Scorching 100 chart and used to be strengthened by means of large viral social media good fortune.
The album additionally gained Gray the admiration of a few of his heroes, together with Taylor Swift and Elton John. The latter known as the pop celebrity “an excellent songwriter” and “the actual deal” all through an episode of his Rocket Hour radio display.
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