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\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tAlex Warren onstage at Osheaga Festival in Montreal in August.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJack Dytrych<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\tUnlike many previous Songs of the Summer, \u201cOrdinary\u201d isn\u2019t an uptempo bop \u2014 and perhaps because of that, it has polarized audiences, some of whom have also criticized it as derivative. But the lack of universal acclaim doesn\u2019t annoy Warren. Rather, what troubles him are the claims that the song\u2019s success has been manufactured. \u201cIt bothers me when people make things up. One of the popular ones for a long time was \u2018This guy buys his streams.\u2019 And \u2018His label buys his tickets; that\u2019s why he sells out arenas.\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018Damn, I worked my booty off,\u2019\u00a0\u201d he says. \u201cThese are people looking for reasons not to like you, and if they choose to believe something that\u2019s not true, I mean, I can\u2019t stop them from believing that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tIn 2019, Warren co-founded The Hype House, a collective of influencers popular on TikTok that also included Addison Rae, HUDDY and Charli D\u2019Amelio and whose antics at a shared Ventura County mansion were chronicled in a 2022 Netflix docuseries. Despite his commercial and critical musical accomplishments today \u2014 Warren took home the Moon Person for best new artist at the MTV Video Music Awards in September \u2014 he knows that some people still dismiss him because of his influencer roots. He understands the skepticism.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cEvery influencer who goes into music probably should get it,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ve watched a lot of people who go, \u2018I\u2019m going to be a singer now,\u2019 and they kind of just expect everything to be handed to them. Why on earth would you think I\u2019m any different?\u201d<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tJelly Roll and Alex Warren onstage at Chicago\u2019s Wrigley Field in May.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJack Dytrych<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\tBut Warren, who has taken years of vocal, music theory, guitar and piano lessons, is<\/em> different. \u201cI\u2019ve put in my 10,000 hours now to the point where, yeah, I wish I did get more of a fair shake,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\tWarren began writing when he was 13, partly to cope with his father\u2019s death from cancer four years earlier. Unable as a 9-year-old to deal with the profound gravity of his father\u2019s final moments, Warren says he \u201cstarted messing with him when he was loopy on so many drugs because I thought it was funny, instead of being able to say goodbye to my dad and have a conversation with him.\u201d To forget his father had died, he \u201cnever, never talked about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tAs Warren reached adolescence, the sorrow caught up with him when unknowing friends would ask why his dad didn\u2019t drive him to school or when he watched one of his sisters go to a daddy-daughter dance without their father. That was when Warren began writing songs. \u201cI started picking up the piano and guitar and playing chords, trying to deal with that grief,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
\n\tBut the worst wasn\u2019t over. Warren\u2019s mother, who struggled with substance abuse, threw him out of the house when he was 18, and he lived in his car for months. She died of liver and renal failure when he was 21, their relationship unreconciled.<\/p>\n
\n\tThose early tragedies have given him perspective when it comes to the ups and downs of the music business, and they inform every song he writes. \u201cMy career is amazing, but at the same time, I think everything that I\u2019ve lost \u2014 my parents, my childhood \u2014 that\u2019s just something that has led me to be the person I am today, the musician I am today, and I have a story to tell and hopefully [can] help some people,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
\n\tWarren co-wrote every song on his 2024 EP, You\u2019ll Be Alright, Kid (Chapter One)<\/em>, and this year\u2019s full-length follow-up, You\u2019ll Be Alright, Kid<\/em>, and he knows his penchant for taking on serious topics \u2014 his first single under Atlantic, \u201cHeadlights,\u201d dealt with anxiety, while his first Hot\u00a0100 entry, \u201cBurning Down,\u201d examined betrayal \u2014 may not appeal to everyone. \u201cI\u2019m a dude who writes love songs and songs about his dead parents, and some people are going to be like, \u2018Pack it up. I want to go twerk at my local bar or club,\u2019\u00a0\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n
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\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tAlex Warren and Joe Jonas at New York\u2019s Irving Plaza in May.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJack Dytrych<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\tBut many others draw strength from what Warren has survived. The title of his current tour, Cheaper Than Therapy, may be somewhat tongue in cheek, but it also addresses the communal healing powers of music for him and his audience.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s videos on the internet of me bawling my eyes out onstage, which is so funny because I don\u2019t really cry in person,\u201d he says. \u201cI spent a lot of my childhood crying, and now I\u2019m kind of like numb to it.\u201d But when he plays aching songs of loss like \u201cEternity,\u201d \u201cChasing Shadows\u201d or \u201cSave You a Seat\u201d and hears the audience \u201cscreaming my lyrics to me about my parents, it\u2019s very emotional,\u201d he says. \u201cEveryone in that room understands the feeling of losing that person in your life, whether it\u2019s your brother, your sister, your mom, your dad, your dog, anything, and so to be able to understand and be able to process that with people, it\u2019s almost like group therapy.\u201d (Fittingly, through his partnership with the nonprofit PLUS1, Warren is contributing $1 from every ticket sold to Camp Kesem, which provides free camps and programs for kids with parents fighting cancer.)<\/p>\n
\n\tNot that Warren\u2019s show is one big sob fest. He intersperses stories and jokes between songs to create a \u201croller coaster\u201d of emotions, crowd-pleasing adjustments he made following a 2024 college show opening for Flo\u00a0Rida where Warren was booed loudly by men whom he suspects had been dragged there by their girlfriends. The answer, he discovered, was to be his unedited, vulnerable, self-deprecating self. \u201cI used to throw up before a show out of anxiety, hoping they\u2019d like me. I always filtered myself,\u201d he says. \u201cI realized if I just be myself and make the [dark] jokes that I normally would make, it kind of throws people off guard. The dudes tend to love it. I found a lot of inspiration with Lewis Capaldi and the jokes he tells and how he\u2019s just unironically himself.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tIn addition to the sold-out shows and chart-\u00adtopping success, the past year has brought other pinch-me moments, including singing \u201cOrdinary\u201d onstage with Luke Combs at Lollapalooza in July. \u201cI was terrified because Luke is one of those vocalists where he\u2019s going to make my song sound better when he sings it,\u201d he says. \u201cLuke is one of those people where I\u2019m like, \u2018F\u2013k! You just Kelly Clarkson\u2019d my ass!\u2019\u00a0\u201d The two artists have talked about collaborating further but have other business to handle first: \u201cHe\u2019s going to take me hunting for the first time because I\u2019ve never hunted,\u201d Warren says.<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tLuke Combs and Alex Warren at Lollapalooza in Chicago in July.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJack Dytrych<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\tJelly Roll, who duets with Warren on \u201cBloodline,\u201d released in May, has also taken Warren under his wing. Having moved with his wife to Nashville a little under a year ago, Warren lives one exit away from Jelly, and they\u2019ve forged their friendship due to their difficult teen years \u2014 Jelly was incarcerated for much of the time between the ages of 14 and 24. \u201cI\u2019ve been able to text him a lot of times. I probably text him too much,\u201d Warren says. \u201cIt\u2019s been a blessing to be able to learn from him, especially regarding life lessons. We both come from a pretty broken past. He has a special place in my heart.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tNow that Warren has reached a pinnacle, speculation has begun as to whether he can replicate the success of \u201cOrdinary.\u201d But he\u2019s unconcerned. \u201cI\u2019m kind of like, \u2018OK, cool. I don\u2019t need another one.\u2019 I\u2019m happy. I never thought I\u2019d get one [hit]. If another one happens, that\u2019s amazing, but at least I know that I\u2019ve been able to do it once. If I die a one-hit wonder, thank God. It\u2019s just a cool thing and I could not ask for more.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tEither way, he\u2019ll still have his Chipotle free-for-life card \u2014 even if he doesn\u2019t like using it. \u201cI go every day, even before [the card],\u201d he says. \u201cI don\u2019t even use the card because I\u2019ll be like, \u2018Is this douchey if I hand them a card and be like, \u201cMy meal\u2019s free\u201d\u00a0\u2019? I pay.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThis story appears in the Oct. 4, 2025, issue of <\/em>Billboard.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAller \u00e0 la source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Alex Warren\u2019s breakthrough hit, \u201cOrdinary,\u201d notched a sixth week at No.\u00a01 on the Billboard Hot\u00a0100 in mid-July, it drew a reaction from one of the most famous musicians in the world. \u201cSuppressor on the 1\u00a0spot,\u201d Drake posted on Instagram after the song kept his own single, \u201cWhat Did I Miss?,\u201d out of the top […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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