{"id":680501,"date":"2025-07-18T17:55:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T14:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/alex-warren-talks-new-album-healing-journey-future\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T17:55:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T14:55:15","slug":"alex-warren-talks-new-album-healing-journey-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/alex-warren-talks-new-album-healing-journey-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Warren Talks New Album, Healing Journey, Future"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tRather than running away from pain, Alex Warren has embraced it and used it to connect with millions around the world.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 24-year-old singer-songwriter went from being a YouTube<\/a> star a few years ago to scoring his first No.1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with his song \u201cOrdinary\u201d last month. While it\u2019s been a wild ride, it\u2019s also a bittersweet journey for Warren as he looks back on everything he\u2019s overcome to get where he is today.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIf I didn\u2019t lose my parents, I wouldn\u2019t have met my wife and I wouldn\u2019t have a career, which is such a strange idea to think that I had to lose the two most important people in my life to be able to achieve the success I always thought I wanted,\u201d he tells The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n\tHowever, he took his loss and pain and put them into words, crafting songs that people can resonate with. Warren says his EP, You\u2019ll Be Alright, Kid (Chapter 1)<\/em>, which debuted last year, offered a deep dive into \u201call the things that have happ<\/a>ened in my life, and here\u2019s also me finding love.\u201d Now, his second chapter, which dropped Friday, shows how he was able to heal and glue all the broken pieces back together.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s been really cool to write things not from a perspective of, \u2018Oh, I\u2019m broken, look at me,\u2019 and now, \u2018Oh, I\u2019m fixed and here\u2019s how,\u201d he says of the new album.<\/p>\n

\n\tBelow, Warren gets candid about his songwriting process, the inspirations behind his new album, You\u2019ll Be Alright, Kid<\/em>, his favorite part about performing live on his Cheaper Than Therapy tour and how starting his career on YouTube impacted his transition to music.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen did you first know you wanted to be a singer and songwriter?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tGrowing up, my dad knew he was dying. So that was something really difficult to grasp, where he kind of wanted to watch all of my siblings grow up. So every Friday, we would do these talent shows, and it was just such a fun time because none of us knew what we were doing, but we were just laughing and singing and I was imagining I was part of The Naked Brothers Band. I was always running around in my underwear with this Fender guitar and there\u2019s so many videos of me as a kid doing it, and I just fell in love with the craft and just the idea that I could do music for a living. As time went on and as I grew older, I would always go to my piano and try and find different ways to express myself, whether it was a middle school breakup or a fight I got in with my mom or mourning the loss of my father.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs time went on, and I would consistently post singing videos on YouTube in 2011 and Musical.ly, when that was a thing, and on Instagram, I just realized I was getting bullied really heavily for it. I wanted to be the cool kid, I wanted people to like me, so I strayed away from it. Then\u00a0fast-forward\u00a0a little bit, I found some success in social media, and I thought that\u2019s what I was meant to do. And I wanted to mess around and I posted a singing video on one of my backup accounts, thinking no one would see it, and I woke up the next day to 10 million views and everyone telling me I should do music. And it was weird because I wasn\u2019t used to people liking my music, I wasn\u2019t used to people liking my voice. I was so used to getting bullied and hated for it. So I took a chance and put out a song and it ended up doing really well, and I saw my chance to do what I loved and here we are.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWith your songs being so personal and inspired by your real life, is it ever challenging to put that into words or do you find it healing?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s always been healing, but I\u2019m always trying to find different ways of expressing it. I think it\u2019s really difficult to explain loss, especially the loss of a parent or something so\u00a0substantial,\u00a0to someone who\u2019s never gone through it. And my biggest thing is trying to, A, give a voice and an option to people who\u2019ve gone through it, an explanation of what that feeling is. And B, how can I get people who\u2019ve never gone through that to understand that feeling? Cause people can be empathetic and try and understand that thought, but if I can give them examples and metaphors and idioms to kind of explain that better, I\u2019ve tried my best.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tCan you talk me through your creative process when it comes to writing a song?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI have a book called Alex\u2019s Songbook, and it\u2019s pretty much anything bad that\u2019s ever happened to me in my life. Whether it\u2019s\u00a0an argument I just got into or maybe today I\u2019m just feeling a certain way. And I write with the same people every single time and we\u2019ve really just built a rapport, and I\u2019ve cried in front of them, I\u2019ve laughed in front of them, and it\u2019s just been a moment where we really truly understand each other. So it\u2019s definitely been something where we know each other very well, so we kind of all collaboratively decide what we want to write. We\u2019ll be at a piano, and I\u2019m like, damn, I really love this song or I really love this idea. We try to find a sound that feels like the idea before we even identify it, if that makes sense. Like we\u2019ll be on a piano and just start playing something in just the basic key of C, and then we try to find, like, what does this feel like? Then I\u2019ll scroll through my book and I\u2019m like, oh my God, this feels like this one time I went through this, and I\u2019ll have titles written down already.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tMusic means something to each person, but what does it mean to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s healing. I don\u2019t go to therapy, but every time I play these songs, whether it\u2019s live or every time I write these songs, I have videos of me crying to the first listens of so many of these records and bawling and breaking down and talking with my friends. It\u2019s just something so heartfelt, but also so healing, especially the music I write.\u00a0And it\u2019s been such a therapeutic moment being able to turn these horrible things that have happened to me and almost taking them back and putting them into my hands and saying this is my life, this is my narrative, and this is how I\u2019m going to portray this, and also be able to help people.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tSo the name of your tour, Cheaper Than Therapy, really is perfect then.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tYes, but it\u2019s flawed in Europe where healthcare is free (Laughs<\/em>), so I kind of fucked that up.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAs you continue on your sold-out headline tour, what do you love most about performing live?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s just a cool experience because I look at everyone while I sing it. I don\u2019t know what other artists do, but I\u2019m so enthralled by the idea that there\u2019s people standing in front of me who paid to watch me sing. So I\u2019m consistently always staring at people, just seeing how at one moment someone could be laughing about a stupid joke I told, and literally 30 seconds later, they\u2019re bawling their eyes out for a song that I wrote in my bedroom with my friends. It\u2019s so amazing how emotions can switch so quickly, but also to be able to see the impact that these songs have in real time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tTurning to your new album, what are you looking forward to the most about this new chapter?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI\u2019m fucking terrified, and I can tell you that. I don\u2019t know, I think I\u2019m excited \u2018cause these songs mean so much. I\u2019m so excited for people to see them. I listen to these records every day, and it\u2019s so weird \u2018cause I used to hate my songs. I used to hate my voice on these things, and these are songs that I truthfully listen to every day and I\u2019m so proud to show people. When someone\u2019s like, \u201cOh my God, I love your music,\u201d I\u2019m like, \u201cOh my God, let me show you this song,\u201d and I just show them one of my favorite songs from the album. \u2026 I\u2019m so excited to see what people like and the difference in opinions, and I have a favorite, so it\u2019s cool to see what other people\u2019s favorites are and what resonates.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat inspirations did you draw from to create this new album?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tHonestly, a\u00a0lot of music I grew up listening to, like, just tapping into that. I\u2019ve been obsessed with a lot of Lewis Capaldi and Shawn Mendes and Ed Sheeran, and just those guys that helped me a lot through a lot of the growing pains that I had growing up. And I really wanted to tap into\u00a0my younger self when writing this record and a huge part of that is listening to the music I grew up with.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHow would you say it\u2019s different than your EP, You\u2019ll be alright, Kid \u2013 Chapter 1<\/em>, which released last year?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI think sonically it\u2019s a lot bigger. We really wanted to prioritize, since I\u2019m playing a lot of festivals, like that big anthemic moments, but also on top of it, we wanted to prioritize healing more. The first half was like, hey, I\u2019m broken and like this is why. And here\u2019s all the things that have happened in my life, and here\u2019s also me finding love. And the second one\u2019s like, hey, this is who I am now, this is where I am now and this is how I\u2019ve been able to heal. \u2026 So it\u2019s been really cool to write things not a perspective of, \u201cOh, I\u2019m broken, look at me,\u201d and now, \u201cOh, I\u2019m fixed and here\u2019s how.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\n\tHaving gotten your start on social media and YouTube, how do you think that experience helped you transition to music?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI think perceptually it did more damage than help in some way, as people typically don\u2019t want to take you seriously as you come from one thing. And I think that\u2019s just with experience, like a lot of people came from TikTok to music almost \u2018cause they thought it was easy, and they treated it as such, and then everyone\u2019s reactions were like, \u201cYou didn\u2019t put the work in for this.\u201d It\u2019s like me walking in as a manager role and bossing people around and telling them how great I am when I have no experience in anything. And I think it gave a lot of TikTok people going to music a bad\u00a0rap,\u00a0and just the idea of it kind of created a bad taste in a lot of people\u2019s mouths. So it\u2019s been a lot of work for me to kind of prove, like, hey, I respect this. I\u2019m no better than anyone else, and I\u2019m just writing music personally about the things that I\u2019ve gone through. I\u2019m not sitting here being like, oh my God, I have to be at the top of the charts, and I\u2019m so blessed that I am. But I\u2019m just flattered to be in the same topic of these people, and I don\u2019t think I\u2019m anywhere near as talented as that. \u2026 Promotionally though,\u00a0I understand the landscape of being able to promote music, which has been really helpful when I go to make a video to say, hey, here\u2019s my new song.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWith so much of your life and relationship online for so many years, how do you navigate the balance between your public and personal life?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI\u2019m doing a pretty bad job at it right now, I\u2019m not gonna lie (Laughs<\/em>). It\u2019s just been so difficult. Honestly, the answer would probably be to be able to just make music and keep things separate. I would love to be able to just keep writing songs about my wife, but yeah, I\u2019m not sure. It\u2019s such a balance that I need to work on that I\u2019m still trying to figure out.\u00a0\u2026 It\u2019s so difficult because I also write about my personal life. Like, there isn\u2019t really anything I hide, so maybe I need to start keeping secrets.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIs there a moment in your career so far that you\u2019re most proud of?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tEd Sheeran, being able to play with him at a pub. I remember\u00a0my wife was bawling in the front row. I\u2019m sitting there smiling at him. He\u2019s singing to me my own song, and I\u2019m just trying not to look at him so I don\u2019t start crying, so I\u2019m just staring, funny enough (Laughs<\/em>), at the YouTube CEO as I\u2019m singing the song \u2018cause I didn\u2019t want to look at Ed. So it was interesting to be able to sing in a room full of people and just have someone I look up to singing my song to me.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIf you could go back and tell your younger self something, seeing where you are today, what would it be?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s so difficult \u2018cause I think all the triumphs and the things that I\u2019ve gone through have put me in the position I am today. Like, if I didn\u2019t lose my parents, I wouldn\u2019t have met my wife and I wouldn\u2019t have a career, which is such a strange idea to think that I had to lose the two most important people in my life to be able to achieve the success I always thought I wanted. So it\u2019s something I have to battle with every day, and I don\u2019t know if there\u2019s a conversation that I\u2019d ever have with my younger self. And if there was, it would probably be, \u201cYou\u2019ll be all right, kid.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tLooking ahead, where do you hope to see yourself in five years?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tNot sure, honestly. I just would love to be putting out albums, like, I would love to put out an album a year. That seems like something so ambitious, but I would truly love to just be able to put out a body of work every year, and as I\u2019m growing and as I\u2019m changing, the songs would grow and change. So I hope in five years, I\u2019m not a piece of shit. That\u2019s kind of the goal. I\u2019m really happy with who I am\u00a0today,\u00a0and I hope in five years I\u2019m still happy with who I am.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIf you had to describe what makes Alex Warren, Alex Warren, what would you say?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tMy wife. She keeps me humble. At moments where I might become a piece of shit, she likes to check me. So I think that\u2019s the most important thing is having someone in your life that holds you accountable, but also she was there with me when I had nothing. So that\u2019s really important to have as a structure, that someone\u2019s able to call you out on your bullshit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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