From Sleeping In A Car To 11 Billion Streams: Alex Warren Gets Real About Grief
· 24 min · S6 E118
Episode From Sleeping In A Car To 11 Billion Streams: Alex Warren Gets Real About Grief
Hey Lifers! We have such a special one for you today. If it sounds a little different, that's because we recorded this in the green room! We'd just come off stage after interviewing Grammy-nominated, 11-billion-streamed, ten-times-platinum (here in Australia!) artist Alex Warren, live, on the night his new album Wildchild dropped.
You know Alex from "Ordinary", one of the biggest songs of the last two years, but what makes him so special isn't just the music, it's how openly he talks about what got him there. At nine, Alex lost his dad to cancer. At 16, he was kicked out of home and lived in his car. At 21, he lost his mum. Today he opens up about all of it: writing a song from his late dad's perspective (with a guitar solo from John Mayer), the voice notes his dad left him before he passed, the "what ifs" of grief, his mum's addiction and the regrets he still carries. He also has one of the best love stories we’ve ever heard.
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YouTube Timestamps
• 0:00 — Backstage at the WILDCHILD album launch • 1:49 — Accidentally Unfiltered: the Jack White skate park story gone horribly wrong • 4:17 — Writing "Wildchild" from his late dad's perspective, and the John Mayer guitar solo story • 8:12 — Losing his mum to addiction and the regrets he still sits with • 10:24 — The voice notes his dad left before he died, and why "people die twice" • 12:32 — Meeting his wife Kouvr while he was homeless and living in a car • 16:38 — Why he calls Kouvr his "rescuer" • 20:10 — His favourite song on the new album, and how "Ordinary" took the pressure off • 21:24 — His advice for anyone in the middle of grief right now
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