{"id":1965,"date":"2025-06-02T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/alex-warren-is-anything-but-ordinary\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T14:00:00","slug":"alex-warren-is-anything-but-ordinary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/alex-warren-is-anything-but-ordinary\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Warren is Anything But \u2018Ordinary\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/leadDSC_3649.jpg\" width=\"\" height=\"\" alt=\"Alex Warren (Credit: Jack Dytrych)\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong>When Alex Warren was a kid, he loved wandering around his house, singing.<\/strong> His mother would berate him for it, telling him he had no talent. So at age 18 when Warren performed \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3ncemGc9tc0?si=q-nHQ0s4JcQX8ioS\" target=\"_blank\">One More I Love You<\/a>\u201d on a talent show, his lack of confidence got the best of him, and he was instantly voted off.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI realized I had really bad stage fright,\u201d he tells me, from a hotel somewhere in Ohio, though he\u2019s not sure where. \u201cI was just scared of failing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/06\/best-albums-of-2025-so-far\/\">Best Albums of 2025 (So Far)<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/06\/failure-documentary-heading-to-hulu\/\">Failure Documentary Heading To Hulu<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/06\/superchunk-key-up-for-13th-album\/\">Superchunk \u2018Key\u2019 Up For 13th Album, Tour<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two years later, in 2021, he released \u201cOne More I Love You\u201d as his debut single. A song he wrote at age 13 about his childhood trauma, it has since garnered more than <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/3v9IFz7EikDfXXfvPVfH6B?si=418f13ef063745fc\" target=\"_blank\">62 million streams on Spotify<\/a>. Later that same year, he released two more singles: \u201cRemember Me Happy\u201d and \u201cScreaming Underwater.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Warren, who is currently on his sold-out headlining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexwarrenofficial.com\/#tour\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Cheaper Than Therapy <\/em>global tour<\/a><strong>, <\/strong>has recently announced a 15-date extension for a second North American leg, totaling 62 dates\u2014which explains why he\u2019s unable to recall which city he\u2019s in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m touring 10 months out of the year,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m never home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It wouldn\u2019t be an understatement to say that Warren\u2019s career is exploding.<\/p>\n<p>The Carlsbad, California, singer-songwriter was named <em>Billboard<\/em>\u2019s January Chartbreaker with a reimagined version of \u201cBurning Down,\u201d with Joe Jonas, a track originally from his debut album, 2024\u2019s <em>You\u2019ll Be Alright, Kid (Chapter 1).<\/em> The single marked Warren\u2019s first time breaking onto the <em>Billboard <\/em>Hot 100 and has now amassed more than 185 million streams, reaching No. 1 on the global charts in eight countries. And then there\u2019s \u201cOrdinary,\u201d released in February, which has more than 193 million streams and, as of this writing, currently sits at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-global-200\/\" target=\"_blank\">No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200<\/a> for the fourth week in a row. The song is about his now-wife, Instagram model Kouvr Annon, whom he met while he was homeless after getting kicked out of the house at 18 by his mother.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike the alcoholic, abusive mom, she was always kicking me out of the house\u2026\u201d Warren says. \u201cThe day I turned 18, she stormed into my room and said, \u2018Alright, time to go.\u2019 So I left, and I never came back. I was sleeping in my friends\u2019 cars, and whenever their parents would go to bed, they\u2019d let me come into their house and sleep on the floor sometimes or share a bed with them. So I was kind of all over the place. And then I met my wife, and I was sleeping in cars still, and she decided to sleep in cars with me for, I think, two weeks or three weeks, we were together doing that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What he doesn\u2019t mention is that Annon left her family in Hawaii and moved to California to do this.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"mi3Zz8q0bck\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>While Warren may be on the verge of becoming one of the biggest stars on the planet, he still sometimes hears his mother\u2019s voice inside his head tell him: \u201cYou can\u2019t do this.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Warren\u2019s mother started drinking heavily after his father died from kidney cancer when he was 9. He says he was as close as a 9-year-old can be with his father.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the struggle I have a lot is I find out more about him through people than I did through him, and the videos he left us, which is something really sweet,\u201d Warren says. \u201cI\u2019m constantly thinking about who he was as a man, as I\u2019m this age, where he was in his life. And it\u2019s cool. I was in a mall the other day, the one he grew up going to, and I felt very at home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before he died in 2009, Warren\u2019s father would take him and his four siblings on weekly outings to show them a new talent, from surfing to skateboarding.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That desire for his kids to be well-rounded and active wasn\u2019t limited to sports. When Warren was 6 years old, his father bought him his first guitar, a Fender. \u201cWe would have home talent shows, and it would be me on guitar, my little sister would sing, my older sister would play piano, and my brother would play drums. And I fell in love with it. And so as I got older and as time went on, I would do talent shows, and I was god-awful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those old home videos of his father that Warren would watch inspired him to create his own videos and post them online when he was 11; mainly silly stuff like doing backflips on the trampoline and the Doritos commercial he and his siblings made.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next few years, Warren continued to upload videos, mostly pranks and other humorous content. But when he began chronicling his budding relationship with his then-girlfriend Annon, starting from his homeless days sleeping in his car, he gained more than a million followers in six months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then he got his first check for $2,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1219\" height=\"1524\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/DSC_1964.jpg\" alt=\"(Credit: Jack Dytrych)\" class=\"wp-image-465151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/DSC_1964.jpg 1219w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/DSC_1964-340x425.jpg 340w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/DSC_1964-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/DSC_1964-498x623.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1219px) 100vw, 1219px\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Credit: Jack Dytrych)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2019, Warren, along with Annon and fellow TikTok influencers Charli D\u2019Amelio, Addison Rae, Chase Hudson, and others, moved into the Hype House, a mansion where they all lived together and created online content for the platform, garnering millions of fans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During all of this, however, Warren still dreamt of being a musician, despite the insecurities his mother planted in his head. The Hype House gave him the confidence to try it again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you go all the way down my social media, the first videos I ever posted were me singing,\u201d says Warren. \u201cI really wanted to be a singer. And it just never worked, never got views, never got discovered. I got made fun of, bullied in high school, so I kind of just gave up on it. And then I started doing the social media thing, and that took off right when I started.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Warren took his social media success as a sign that perhaps being a musician wasn\u2019t so unrealistic. So, while he was living at the Hype House, sitting on the toilet, he tells me, he posted a video of himself singing. The next morning, he woke up to discover his video had 10 million views.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone was like, \u2018Oh my god, you should put out a song. You sound so good,\u2019\u201d he says. \u201cAnd then I dropped \u2018One More I Love You\u2019 and started pursuing music.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1256\" height=\"837\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/DSC_4957.jpg\" alt=\"(Credit: Jack Dytrych)\" class=\"wp-image-465152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/DSC_4957.jpg 1256w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/DSC_4957-340x227.jpg 340w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/DSC_4957-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/DSC_4957-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/DSC_4957-498x332.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1256px) 100vw, 1256px\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Credit: Jack Dytrych)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2022, he signed with Atlantic Records and released his first album two years later. While he gained recognition for songs such as \u201cCarry You Home\u201d and \u201cBurning Down,\u201d it was \u201cOrdinary\u201d that got Warren to where he is now: on the verge of superstardom.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He and Annon, who have been together seven years, got married in June 2024. \u201cShe comes with me on tour everywhere, and we get to travel the world,\u201d he says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Though Warren\u2019s mother died in 2021, he still can\u2019t get the cruel things she said to him out of his head. I ask him if he feels like his mother\u2019s abuse helped push him harder to obtain success in an effort to prove her wrong.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I work a lot harder to prove that to someone who isn\u2019t here to prove it to, if that makes sense,\u201d he says. \u201cI can\u2019t be like, \u2018See Mom, I told you I could do it.\u2019 But there\u2019s definitely someone in my ear, and it tends to be the depiction of my mom. Everything I do, I\u2019m my biggest hater. A lot of people are always like, \u2018Oh, you\u2019ve done so well for yourself, how cool is it?\u2019 and it\u2019s crazy because I don\u2019t think I celebrate the wins, which is something I have to work on. I credit a lot of my success to the fact that I do that, but at the same time, it\u2019s so horrible for my mental health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On May 22, Warren released a new single, a collaboration with Jelly Roll called \u201cBloodline,\u201d a song they performed together at the Stagecoach Festival in April.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/bloodline_COVERART.jpg\" alt='Alex Warren and Jelly Roll collaborate on their new single \"Bloodline\" ' class=\"wp-image-465154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/bloodline_COVERART.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/bloodline_COVERART-340x340.jpg 340w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/bloodline_COVERART-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/bloodline_COVERART-498x498.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Alex Warren and Jelly Roll collaborate on their new single \u201cBloodline\u201d <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The new single is an ode to his older brother, who, like many children of alcoholics, struggles with the mental health challenges that come from growing up in such a dysfunctional household, particularly when it comes to people-pleasing and seeking others\u2019 approval.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI only know how to write sad songs or love songs because that\u2019s kind of my two things,\u201d he says. \u201cFunny enough, my brother joined the military for my mom, and my mom passed away. And then he realized that that was not the life that he wanted. And he struggled with mental health. And so it was something important for me\u2026that\u2019s where our relationship really bonded and got strong, over the fact that we both come from a weird bloodline and a weird, traumatic family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Warren says the life he has is a trade-off. But he\u2019s fine with it. \u201cI live a very cool life, and that\u2019s something I\u2019m very thankful for,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd at the same time, I have my own battles. I\u2019m 24, I\u2019ve got time to figure that out\u2026to walk through life and experience it all.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Alex Warren was a kid, he loved wandering around his house, singing. His mother would berate him for it, telling him he had no talent. 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