Grace has worked tirelessly in recent months and being a lyrics person, he is focused on making sure listeners pick up on that. Because I feel like it did well, and everyone was like ‘we get what you’re saying’ and that just made me happy.” “But I think the story behind it and the meaning of the songs was really well received and made me feel like I did the right thing, and I made the right thing, I guess. “I think I was very nervous about it because I didn’t know how people would react to the more produced, more pop songs that I ended up putting on the EP. “I’m happy with how well it’s been received by people,” states Grace as he smiles about its success. Making personal music for a universal audience, these intimate songs somehow manage to speak what the listener feels but cannot quite put into words. Last month, the Salt Lake City artist released his debut EP ‘Immaturing’, the five-track EP is a project that sincerely documents his challenging experiences growing up. The 20-year-old singer, songwriter, and social media star has fast made a name for themselves as a singular new artist, showcasing their one-of-a-kind perspective through mesmerising bedroom pop and a bold, funny, utterly idiosyncratic online persona. “I wanted to put stickers and all that because when you’re finding yourself, it feels like these weird puzzle that don’t fit quite right, so I wanted it to look slightly off… I really love it and it feels really nostalgic to me.Coming out as non-binary, gay, transgender or any gender is never easy, but for Utah’s Addison Grace, the music industry was ready (mostly) to embrace him. “I wanted it to be realistic so I searched through a bunch of scrapbooks and I found pictures of two-year old me, 10-year old me, 15-year old me and a picture of me from last year and we ended up crafting it all together because I’ve always loved the idea of putting photos together and it makes something else. HBO Leads GLAAD Media Awards For LGBTQ Representation I didn’t want it to be something someone had drawn.” He adds, “Even though, for me, it’s a song about gender identity and finding myself in that way, I think really at the core - it becomes a song about not understanding yourself and wishing so desperately that you could and it’s a very vulnerable song for that reason.”Īddison Grace shares of the cover art for the single, “I feel like a lot of my work recently has been about growing up and about those awkward moments in your life, so for this song, I wanted it to be a collage of my face growing up.
“I even had my friends who were born female and identify as female feel that way because they felt they were a tomboy and never fit in with the ‘girlie girls’ so to speak.”Ĭharlie Puth Consoles Disappointed TikTok Star After He’s Rejected From Juilliard I had trans men relating to it saying ‘I’ve always felt like that.’ I’ve had trans women being like ‘I used to deny I was a woman and I wanted to be a boy I wanted to be ‘normal’ - quote, unquote. The singer says of the fan reaction prior to the official release, “A lot of people ended up relating to the song. With time, I realized it was very much me explaining - in song form - that I wasn’t a girl and that I was nonbinary instead.” I’m very open with how I identify online and I’ve always openly been a queer creator, queer musician, and at that time I was really not understanding how I identified with my gender and how I felt about it, and so it started off as a song about gender roles and how I was jealous of guys and how they got to have certain things I couldn’t have. In an interview with B Drop, he shares: “I initially started writing it when I was questioning a lot of things about myself. Addison Grace – Photo: Courtney Kiara Boyer Writing the fan favourite track led the Salt Lake City-based musician to discover their pronouns – he/they – and “come home to themselves in a way that provided freedom, comfort and genuine love,” a press release states of the powerful lyrics.Īddison Grace wasn’t expecting to release the song outside of social media, but did after it was so well-received. TikTok star Addison Grace just released “I Wanna Be a Boy”. Addison Grace - Photo: Courtney Kiara Boyer
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