{"id":38961,"date":"2025-07-08T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/08\/alex-warren-on-ordinary-youre-going-to-be-alright-kid-criticism\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T15:15:00","slug":"alex-warren-on-ordinary-youre-going-to-be-alright-kid-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/08\/alex-warren-on-ordinary-youre-going-to-be-alright-kid-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Warren on ‘Ordinary,’ ‘You\u2019re Going to Be Alright Kid,’ Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\tIT\u2019S ONLY A few hours before Alex Warren<\/a> plays a crowded room in downtown Los Angeles in early June, and the chart-topping singer behind the massive hit \u201cOrdinary\u201d just passed out from an I.V. experience gone wrong.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis girl didn\u2019t know what she was doing and she stuck it in wrong and was fishing for a minute and she didn\u2019t get a vein and started pumping shit in, and all of a sudden my arm starts bubbling up and I pass the fuck out,\u201d he recounts later. \u201cI wake up and I\u2019m having an allergic reaction and I don\u2019t know what to do. My throat\u2019s closing. I go on stage in two hours. They had to pump me with drugs just to be able to play the show.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tLuckily, the drugs worked. That night, Warren and his band tore through the singer-songwriter\u2019s catalogue of folk-tinged anthems, including \u201cOrdinary,\u201d the Number One track in the world for the last eight weeks-and-counting that\u2019s made him nearly a household name and broken every record you never knew existed (like, Elvis-level records), including taking the King\u2019s crown for a U.S. singer with the top song for the most consecutive weeks in the U.K.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWarren\u2019s fast rise to the top has come with a schedule to match, from playing eight shows in a row before his L.A. gig on his sold-out Cheaper Than Therapy Global Tour, to constant flights (including one to film a music video after our interview). \u201cI think it\u2019s just a lot of stress in the body and the chords,\u201d Warren says. \u201cI\u2019ve never sang this much in my life either, and so I\u2019ve been doing vocal lessons like three times a week, really trying my best to power through everything and trying my best to really perform every show as if it means the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 24-year-old will finally drop his full-length album You\u2019ll Be Alright Kid<\/em> on July 18. The project feels like a continuation and more complete version of his Chapter 1 <\/em>LP, which was filled with songs steeped in grief and love and loss that he\u2019s worked on for years. \u201cI was so terrified of it failing and having to go back to where I came from, which wasn\u2019t somewhere I really wanted to go,\u201d Warren says of the Chapter 1 <\/em>songs. Now, he\u2019s ready for what\u2019s next.<\/p>\n

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\n\tYou\u2019ll Be Alright Kid<\/em> is a 21-track album that features previously released songs like \u201cCarry You Home\u201d and \u201cBurning Down,\u201d which combined have well over 626 million streams on Spotify alone. The LP also boasts a stacked guest list of features, including duets with Ros\u00e9 (\u201cOn My Mind\u201d) and Jelly Roll <\/a>(\u201cBloodline\u201d), a collaborator who also happens to be Warren\u2019s next-door neighbor in Nashville. \u201cI made [\u201cBloodline\u201d] for a DJ, and he ended up not wanting it. \u2026 Jelly loved it, and the next day he cut it in his garage and then we put it out like two weeks later,\u201d Warren says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWarren calls Jelly \u201cthe biggest hype man in the world.\u201d Warren shares that earlier this year at Stagecoach<\/a>, Jelly introduced him to stars like Lana Del Rey. \u201cHe introduced me at the time and goes, \u2018This is Alex. He has the biggest song in the world.\u2019 And at the time, it wasn\u2019t the biggest song in the world. I think he put that into the air.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tLater, Lana even sang the song with him. This happened just a week after he\u2019d performed it with Ed Sheeran<\/a>. \u201cI was like, there\u2019s no fucking way I\u2019m singing \u2018Ordinary\u2019 with Lana Del Rey a week after singing it with Ed Sheeran.\u201d Warren later posted a photo with Lana and Jelly, along with Shaboozey and Machine Gun Kelly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cI think it\u2019s just weird, like these people know who I am, which is a little fucking strange, considering growing up these were people who helped me out a lot,\u201d Warren says. But these days, his life is full of moments like these \u2014 and they\u2019re only becoming more frequent as Warren\u2019s career expands.<\/p>\n

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\n\tAS A KID, <\/strong>Warren says he would listen to worship music and hymns at Catholic school and on the radio. Warren\u2019s dad died when the singer was nine, and he \u201cleft all these Seal records and Coldplay records and Rascal Flatts \u2014 I\u2019m so obsessed with these vocalists who also write, in my opinion, really anthemic but also meaningful songs.\u201d (Warren wrote \u201cOrdinary\u201d about his wife, Kouvr Annon, and says he also takes inspiration from what the two were listening to when they met, including music from Lewis Capaldi and Sheeran.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter his father\u2019s death, Warren says, he tried to cope with trauma through music. \u201cI would sit at a piano and not know anything and just try to play chords and try to make rhythms and songs and melodies,\u201d he says. \u201cI did that my entire life and when I turned 18, my mom kicked me out of my house.\u201d Their relationship was fraught: Warren describes his late mother as an \u201cabusive, alcoholic person who needed someone to blame it on, and that was me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWarren references grief often in his work. He explores the feeling on his album and on his TikTok, where he\u2019s amassed 18-plus-million followers and billions of likes. \u201cI was writing music and I felt like not many people write music about that and not a lot of people want to talk about daunting truths,\u201d he explains. \u201cPeople, I think, like my music so much because I\u2019m very honest with the things I\u2019ve gone through, and these are songs to help them, but also heavily applicable by anyone. I think no matter how rich you are, how poor you are, what your status is, everyone can relate to loss. It\u2019s such a broad thing that it\u2019s really powerful. It\u2019s kind of like dancing at a funeral, like taking a traumatic thing, something that\u2019s happened in your life, and being able to turn into something beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBut as the fans and streams keep rolling in, so do the TikTok comments and the criticism. Some critics have dubbed Warren\u2019s Billboard hit as a song that\u2019s \u201cdriving us nuts,\u201d<\/a> as one outlet put it. Even Warren, who doesn\u2019t seem to not quite realize he\u2019s a star, finds himself poring through the comments section. \u201cThere\u2019s some deep thing in me that I have really bad imposter syndrome,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m constantly searching for people who are validating that imposter syndrome \u2026 I think the hate is a lot louder than love a lot of times. I think it\u2019s just me mitigating that. I care a lot about what people think of me, which sucks because you don\u2019t want to.\u201d He\u2019s been taking the criticism in stride as best he can. \u201cI think it\u2019s just important for me to keep reminding myself that I\u2019m here for a reason \u2014 I deserve this and I\u2019m trying to figure it out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFAME IS A FUNNY<\/strong> thing, and to navigate it all, Warren has had someone special to help make sense of what\u2019s happening in Sheeran. The two \u2014 who share a label and publishing company \u2014 met and played \u201cOrdinary\u201d together at a pub show at Coachella. From there, Sheeran gave Warren his email. \u201cWe just talk every day just about random stuff,\u201d Warren says. \u201cI think with all this attention that I\u2019ve been getting comes a lot of hate, and it\u2019s something really difficult for me to maneuver, but also touring, having a wife and a life outside of touring is such a difficult dynamic and it\u2019s such a weird thing where, like not many therapists understand it either, and to be able to have someone like Ed who has been doing this his entire life \u2026 he\u2019s seen everything. He\u2019s done everything.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWarren describes Sheeran as an \u201copen book,\u201d and says that the star \u201cloves to give advice.\u201d \u201cHe loves to explain what he\u2019s done and how he got over things,\u201d Warren explains. \u201cI think I look at him and he\u2019s got a happy family and kids and he\u2019s got everything any person could ever want. I think it\u2019s really, really important to be able to pick that person\u2019s brain and he\u2019s a good friend of mine now, but also a great mentor.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tPlaying with Sheeran was one of many pinch-me moments the songwriter has experienced leading up to the release of his new LP, most recently of which included a star-making performance of \u201cOrdinary\u201d at the American Music Awards, backed by a euphoric choir and pyrotechnics. Warren says even Heidi Klum <\/a>and Nikki Glaser approved of the set \u2014 and even himself.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI remember once I got to the final chorus in my head, I was like, \u2018You did it. Good shit, dude. Now just don\u2019t fuck it up.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSHORTLY AFTER 10 P.M.<\/strong> at Warren\u2019s downtown L.A. show, the crowd finally got to hear the song they\u2019d waited for all night. As Warren belted \u201cOrdinary\u201ds climactic chorus, perfectly timed confetti shot into the sky as some fans raised their hands up into the air as if reaching for the angels up in the clouds Warren sings about.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cLadies and gentleman, you\u2019ve been absolutely amazing tonight, and I want to say thank you so, so, so much,\u201d Warren told his fans. \u201cIf you can, sing this as loud as you fucking can, yeah? Let\u2019s do it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tAfter Warren drops his album, he\u2019ll take the new project back out onto the road for the extended run of his tour. Whatever the next phase is, Warren sounds alright, just where he\u2019s at.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think if I just stayed here, I\u2019d be so happy,\u201d he says. \u201cThat\u2019s the thing \u2026 if things get better from here, that\u2019s amazing. But I do what I love. I\u2019m married to the person I love. I live where I love. I can\u2019t imagine asking for more. I think right where I am is really good, and if I can continue doing this for the rest of my life, I would be so stoked.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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