Press Play at Home 22: Conan Gray shows off the traumatic past of "Family Line" with an impressed acoustic performance
Press Play at Home 22: Conan Gray shows off the traumatic past of "Family Line" with an impressed acoustic performance
In order to take control of your future, you have to come to terms with your past — and that's
In order to take control of your future, you have to come to terms with your past — and that's
the message behind "Family Line," the powerful fulcrum of Conan Gray's newest album, Superache.
the message behind "Family Line," the powerful fulcrum of Conan Gray's newest album, Superache.
The song finds the pop singer/songwriter tracing his roots and personality traits back to
The song finds the pop singer/songwriter tracing his roots and personality traits back to
their source: A turbulent childhood. Each line lays out some aspect of childhood trauma in
their source: A turbulent childhood. Each line lays out some aspect of childhood trauma in
stark, unsparing detail, and the song's chorus traces back all his faults and attributes to something in his mother or father.
stark, unsparing detail, and the song's chorus traces back all his faults and attributes to something in his mother or father.
stark, unsparing detail, and the song's chorus traces back all his faults and attributes to something in his mother or father.
stark, unsparing detail, and the song's chorus traces back all his faults and attributes to something in his mother or father.
strumming his guitar along to the emotional lyrics as he sits in an empty room The barren
strumming his guitar along to the emotional lyrics as he sits in an empty room The barren
white-walled performance space helps keep the focus on the song's cutting lyrics and excavation of the past.
white-walled performance space helps keep the focus on the song's cutting lyrics and excavation of the past.
How could you hurt a little kid?/ I can't forget, I can't forgive you/ 'Cause now I'm scared that everyone I love will leave me," Gray sings in one particularly hard-hitting verse,
How could you hurt a little kid?/ I can't forget, I can't forgive you/ 'Cause now I'm scared that everyone I love will leave me," Gray sings in one particularly hard-hitting verse,