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Apr 5, 2024 · Found Heaven is Conan Gray’s third studio album. Released on April 5, 2024, the album was preceded by the singles “Never Ending Song”, “Winner”, “Killing Me”, “Lonely Dancers ...
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Found Heaven Lyrics: No God above us / Can we repent this...
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Apr 5, 2024 · Found Heaven Lyrics: No God above us / Can we repent this sin? / No soul is innocent / Everybody wants to love / You walk alone into the darkest night / You'll never sleep until you're...
Found Heaven is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Conan Gray, released by Republic Records on April 5, 2024. The album was preceded by the singles "Never Ending Song", "Winner", "Killing Me", "Lonely Dancers", and "Alley Rose".
Apr 4, 2024 · The official “Found Heaven” lyric video by Conan Gray. Listen & download here: https://conangray.lnk.to/foundheaven Subscribe to Conan Gray: http://ConanGr...
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is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Conan Gray. It was released on April 5, 2024 through Republic Records.
The record is Gray's most experimental yet, as it features a completely different sound from that of the previous ones, and includes numerous synth pop tracks, along with a few emotional deep cuts, all tied together in a 1980s aesthetic.
Conan began works on a new album while on the Superache Tour in 2022. As he explained, venues he'd perform at had a piano in the basement where he would write songs. Through the album's development, Gray's producer and friend, Dan Nigro was already busy with working on Olivia Rodrigo's 2023 album GUTS, due to which he couldn't attend the recording sessions. Instead, Conan invited a couple of other record producers, which most notably include the iconic Max Martin and ILYA, as well as Greg Kurstin, Oscar Holter and Shawn Everett.
The sound of the record was inspired by (as listed by Conan) David Bowie, Elton John, Queen, A-ha, Cutting Crew, and generally 1970s/1980s sound. He also felt the previous albums (Kid Krow and Superache) sounded too similar to each other, therefore the big difference in sound. Gray stated he wants listeners not to compare the record to the previous ones, and to "take it as what it is", to know that he "was having fun and goofing around", but to "smile and feel like you can just be yourself."
In January 2023, Conan began wearing a necklace of a teardrop with a star in it, later used in promo. The first post with it from January 7 also featured a picture of Gray in studio, which hinted at the upcoming album. On March 13, 2023 Gray cut his hair, now rocking curly bangs. The new haircut also symbolized the start of a new era.
On May 10, 2023 Conan began teasing an upcoming song, revealed to be "Never Ending Song" two days later, and released on May 19, 2023. Alongside it, a music video premiered, featuring Gray in a black and yellow leather jacket and sunglasses. Unlike Conan's first releases, the song explored the mid-to-late 1980s aesthetic. Around the time of the release, a website called Food Heaven was launched, referring to the grocery store featured in the music video. This was the first hint at the album title.
On June 27, 2023 Gray participated in a chat with JoJo from 102.7KIISFM, where he was asked about the new era. He stated it's "the beginning of something, I [Conan] can't really say exactly what it is, but also people can make their own assumptions." He was then asked if he's working on an album, which Conan didn't directly reply to, but stated he's working and that he has "secrets".
Near the end of July 2023, Conan posted clips of him playing the next single on piano, and announced it to be "Winner" on August 3. On August 25, 2023 the song was released to the world and featured a much slower, rock oriented production, comparable to Queen. Several promotional clips were released seemingly teasing a music video, although nothing like that ever came into fruition. It can be assumed, that a clip was in plans but was ultimately shelved.
Soon after, Gray began teasing his next release, "Killing Me". It was later announced with a slated Halloween release, alongside a music video. Unfortunately, due to Gray undergoing tonsillectomy, the clip couldn't be filmed and had to ultimately get cancelled. The song itself aims for darker sound while still maintaining the 1980s inspiration, especially with Conan singing in his haunting, low register.
In a cryptic letter sent to fans once they received their 2023 "Heather" sweater, the word “JANUARY” was spelled out through capital letters in several words, which hinted at the announcement.
Conan's most recent work is known by the fan community to have often been shared before being officially announced or released. Infamously, majority of "Killing Me" was accidentally leaked online by TikTok only days prior to its release. Conan later expressed his frustration about it.
Following the album's announcement, Conan revealed most of the vinyl variants for it. The pictures included posters featuring the track list. This accidentally gave away several titles before being announced (this includes "Alley Rose" being track 5). Hours later, the images were replaced with the cover only in most stores.
After the release of "Lonely Dancers", a video from the December 2023 listening party was released, containing a demo of the song. It is unknown if this was an accident or not, as it's available to this day and the audio hasn't been replaced.
Although not exactly related to the album itself, in March 2024 the poster featuring Australian dates for Found Heaven On Tour was leaked online. Only a day later, the tour was officially announced by Conan.
The standard album cover sees Gray on a primary yellow background, while wearing a black and yellow jacket, reminiscent of the outfit worn in the "Never Ending Song" music video. The artist's face is painted in four colors; orange, blue, red and yellow. These seemingly refer to all of Conan's releases to date; Sunset Season, Kid Krow, Superache and Found Heaven respectively. Gray explained his pose on the artwork is supposed to indicate he's dead, pointing to the album's title.
The animated artwork is exclusive to Apple Music, and features the standard cover with the background colors switching to blue, red, and yellow, again referring to Gray's releases. The artwork featured on the Target edition sees Conan in the same setting as the standard cover, although in a different pose, now with his eyes open and looking behind him. The "Alley Rose" edition cover shows Gray in a much different setting, more similar to that of the "Killing Me" artwork. Conan wears a striped, red and white top, as well as a flower crown. The artwork overall is reminiscent to that of Sunset Season, which was possibly intentional. The Exclusive Cover CD shows a closeup at Gray in the same setting as the standard cover, although in once again a different pose, now looking to the side. The Screen Printed editions show the original artwork drawn in a different style, reminiscent of retro paintings and album covers from 1980s and 1990s. The colors of these covers are blue, red and yellow, once again likely referring to Kid Krow, Superache and Found Heaven respectively.
Out of all the released singles, "Never Ending Song" became a major success, becoming one of the artist's biggest hits to this date and getting radio play all around the world. "Winner" became Gray's biggest debut on Spotify, receiving 1.34 million streams on its first day of release, and surpassing "Never Ending Song".
On the other hand, while gaining very positive reception from fans, "Killing Me", "Lonely Dancers" and "Alley Rose" didn't do as well in charts. The former received quite limited promotion, and although "Lonely Dancers" and "Alley Rose" were the opposite, at the time of their release they became Conan's lowest single debuts. Despite of this, the latter began to gain popularity on TikTok days only after its release, and its bridge eventually went viral.
•The album's title is a double entendre, referring to how "found heaven" can refer to "finding your own, personal heaven", but also as stated by Conan, it can refer to death.
•The record continues the "two-year pattern" previously started with Conan's past three projects.
•This is Conan's first release without Dan Nigro behind the production.
•This is Conan’s first studio album without any explicit language being used.
•Conan admitted, that this is his first album where he doesn't create any stories, rather bases all the songs off his real, personal experiences.
•The inspiration for the album's sound came from a time Conan watched 1987's Dirty Dancing with a friend.
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