![]() The "Generation Why" singer recently stopped by the Recording Academy headquarters for our latest episode of Up Close & Personal to share what he's most looking forward to for his upcoming Comfort Crowd Tour, and how he tends to visualize music videos as he writes songs. Despite his fast-growing fan base and rise towards pop stardom, the charismatic artist is incredibly humble and remains in awe of where he is today. ![]() It wasn't long after relocating to La La Land that he got signed to Republic Records, who released Sunset Season. I wasn't signed yet, either," Gray recently told the Recording Academy. I was going to college at UCLA and I was going to classes and I was recording at the same time. "I started making the EP the second I moved from my hometown in Texas to L.A. In 2017, the creative teen left his small-town life for Los Angeles to purse undergraduate film studies at UCLA. Spending his teen years growing up in quiet Georgetown, Texas, he began writing and singing songs and uploading them to what swiftly became his popular YouTube channel, which now (at the time of this writing) has 1.4 million subscribers. He then suggests that when she least expects it, he is going to harm her, set her lawn on fire, destroy her car, waste her credit cards and do so much damage to her that she would wish she had never attempted hurting him.Ĭheckmate by Conan Gray is a song which covers the narrator’s scheme to get revenge on an unsuspecting lover who has been cheating and hurting him.20-year-old singer/songwriter/video director Conan Gray just released his first EP, Sunset Season, last year, but he's already making noise in the D.I.Y. ![]() In the second verse and bridge, the writer details how he is going to carry out his payback by pretending to go on a date with her, holding her hand while there is a weapon in his other hand. Although the singer is aware of this, he decides to let some time pass, allowing his partner to think she is playing her game right. He recalls how she pretends that she is in love with just him, when she is actually cheating with other guys. The writer describes how this person only pays attention to him when she is drunk and deceives him all the time. In Checkmate, the narrator alludes to the fact that though his lover thinks she is the one in charge and hurting him behind his back, he is actually aware of everything and will take his revenge in an unexpected way. The following are the subsequent singles produced by “Kid Krow”: Actually it is the project’s first single. It makes an appearance on Gray’s debut full-length album, “Kid Krow”. ![]() Republic Records and Universal Music Canada released “Checkmate” on 26th, June 2019. Stated he accomplished such within the timespan of four minutes.ĭaniel Nigro took care of the production of “Checkmate”. So the primary sentiment he is expressing is one of timing her, waiting for the perfect opportunity to exclaim “checkmate”, as in beating her at the “games” she plays with his emotions.Īnd he is not approaching this matter from a metaphorical perspective. Instead Conan actually seems to daydream about incidents such as ‘setting fire to her lawn’, ‘wrecking her car’ and even more-serious actions. But this may not be an expression of his actual intent as much as his wishing her ill will in general. For instance, he assures homegirl that “no one is ever going to love” her, which is a manifestation of his overall desire for her to experience bad fortune, even if it is not him who is causing it. And again this sentiment is based on her ‘harming him’, from an emotional standpoint, in the first place.Ĭonan Gray is the sole writer of this song. ![]() Succinctly put, this is a track in which the singer is fantasizing about vengeance against his girlfriend. Yes, this is still his girlfriend and not his ex, as his main gripe with her is that she expresses love and loyalty to him yet messes with other dudes. ![]()
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