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Conan Gray<\/a> told NME<\/em> about his new album \u2018Wishbone\u2019 backstage at Reading 2025<\/a>, saying it dissects \u201cevery little piece of what a breakup feels like\u201d. Check out the video interview in full above or read our chat below.<\/p>\n \u2018Wishbone\u2019, Gray\u2019s fourth album, was released earlier this month and follows his 2024 record \u2018Found Heaven\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s my baby, I\u2019m obsessed with it. I\u2019m so proud of it,\u201d he told NME<\/em> backstage at Reading after his huge main stage set. \u201cIt\u2019s an album about breakups and about every little piece that you go through when you\u2019re going through a breakup. It\u2019s denial and wanting someone back, and anger and then missing someone, and then empathy, but also, like, \u2018Fuck you\u2019. It\u2019s a dissection of every little piece of what a breakup feels like.\u201d<\/p>\n Gray explained that, musically, the album was inspired by the records he grew up listening to. \u201cI think all the influences came together to make a very indescript sound, which is very me. My goal with the album from the beginning was to just make something so unbelievably you, even if you don\u2019t really know exactly what that is. Just follow your gut.\u201d<\/p>\n Asked if he felt that \u2018Wishbone\u2019 is the \u201cmost you\u201d album he\u2019s released so far, he replied: \u201c100 per cent, and I feel like the listeners would agree.\u201d Read our full chat with Conan Gray below.<\/p>\n NME. Hello Conan. It\u2019s your first time at Reading \u2013 you just played on the main stage. How did it go?<\/strong><\/p>\n Conan Gray:<\/strong> \u201cIt was a lot of fun. It was really exciting to sing new songs from my album. I\u2019m always like, \u2018Oh my god, what if they don\u2019t know the words yet?\u2019 It\u2019s only been a week since it\u2019s come out, but they knew the words! I felt very loved.\u201d<\/p>\n A great crowd reaction! Was there one particular song that you were really nervous about that went down really well?<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI really liked people singing along to \u2018Nauseous\u2019. It\u2019s one of my favourites on the album, and I feel like it was good to know that real human beings actually hear the song.\u201d<\/p>\n Why is that one of your favourites?<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI just like how plain it is. It\u2019s very much just like, \u2018You scared the shit out of me\u2019, and then that\u2019s it. Sometimes you just need to be like, \u2018You know what? You\u2019re so wonderful and loving that you scare the shit out of me, bye!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Relatable. You\u2019ve had a big summer so far \u2013 including two festival moments a lot of people would kill for. You were the \u2018Apple\u2019 girl for Charli XCX<\/a> and you were also Sally for Role Model<\/a>. You begged Charli to let you be the \u2018Apple\u2019 girl, but how did you get to be Sally?<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve known Tucker [Pillsbury aka Role Model] forever, like maybe six or seven years? So I\u2019d been to a show in LA the week before, and I told him at the show, \u2018I\u2019m gonna be Sally for Gov Ball. We have to make this happen.\u2019 So then we made a fun little plan.\u201d<\/p>\n