{"id":71881,"date":"2025-10-31T12:46:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T12:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neonmusic.co.uk\/?p=71881"},"modified":"2025-10-31T12:49:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T12:49:42","slug":"conan-gray-wishbone-vevo-artist-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neonmusic.co.uk\/conan-gray-wishbone-vevo-artist-portrait","title":{"rendered":"Conan Gray’s ‘Wishbone’ Short Film Lands on Vevo’s New Artist Portrait Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conan Gray wraps up<\/span> Vevo’s<\/span> brand-new “Artist Portrait” franchise with a short film that feels like the kind of gut-punch you get when someone finally says what they’ve been hiding for ages. <\/span><\/p>\n

The ‘Wishbone’<\/em> piece dropped on 30 October, stitching together performances of “<\/em><\/span>Actor<\/span><\/em>“<\/em> and “<\/em><\/span>Nauseous<\/span><\/em>“<\/em> with candid reflections that make you feel like you’re eavesdropping on therapy sessions in a sea-facing attic.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shot in a wood-panelled cabin overlooking the coast, Gray sits cross-legged with his guitar, surrounded by his band, delivering stripped-back versions that hit differently when there’s nowhere to hide. <\/span><\/p>\n

Its an intimate setting that conveys raw confession, which honestly suits an album that Gray admits he wrote in hotel beds and venue basements while touring last year’s <\/span>Found Heaven<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The<\/span> Wishbone album<\/span><\/a> itself is a proper return to form, pulling from ’90s alt-rock and chamber pop influences whilst Gray processes patterns he keeps repeating in relationships. <\/span><\/p>\n

In the short film, he talks about gravitating towards distant romantic partners and what finally breaking that habit taught him about his own fatal flaws. <\/span><\/p>\n

“A lot of what I’ve been searching for my whole career was that if I had some kind of ache in my heart that no song out there could quite heal, then I had to write it myself,”<\/span><\/i> he explains in the piece.<\/span><\/p>\n

This Vevo collaboration follows Gray’s summer music video trilogy featuring fictional lovers Wilson and Brando, played by Gray and actor Corey Fogelmanis. <\/span><\/p>\n

Those videos for “This Song,” “<\/span>Vodka Cranberry<\/span><\/a>,” and “Caramel<\/a>” traced a queer romance through Texas backroads that mirrored the album’s themes of abandonment and intimacy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gray and Vevo go way back, from his 2020 “DSCVR Artists to Watch” performances through multiple “Live from Vevo Studios” sessions in 2021 and 2024. <\/span><\/p>\n

The new Artist Portrait series ditches convention, meeting artists wherever they’re at, literally and creatively. <\/span><\/p>\n

For Gray, that meant a seaside writing cabin where he could unpack the messy process of sifting through songs to find what <\/span>Wishbone<\/span><\/i> actually needed to say.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you’re into music that feels like reading someone’s diary without permission, this one’s proper essential viewing.<\/span><\/p>\n