It’s three days before his twenty-third birthday and Conan Gray is feeling introspective. On the phone from Los Angeles, the pop singer and songwriter recalls how much his life has changed since turning twenty-one.
It was already a strange time, an impending global pandemic that would entirely derail what everyone had come to know as normal aside.
He had reached the unofficial, official age of actual adulthood where people’s paths really begin to diverge without the shared structure of an education system as experiences become less shared and more individual.
Then, one of the most widespread shared experiences a person could encounter put the world on hold. In the months that followed, few things were left unchanged, a notion that weighed.
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