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Why Conan Grey Almost Didn’t Release His Hit “Heather” · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. YouTuber turn pop star
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  Speaker 1: Conan Gray got his start posting covers as a kid.
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  Speaker 1: He's proven to be a singer songwriter force to be
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  Speaker 1: reckoned with, particularly with the rise of his hit Heather,
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  Speaker 1: a brutally vulnerable ballad about jealousy and insecurity that he
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  Speaker 1: almost didn't release. He tells James Gordon, when I wrote
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  Speaker 1: the song, I was really embarrassed because it's all about
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  Speaker 1: this real girl from high school who barely knew I existed.
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  Speaker 1: I was super jealous of her and thought nobody would
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  Speaker 1: relate to it. I even thought I was insane for
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  Speaker 1: feeling the way I felt. It was not a very
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  Speaker 1: nice song. I almost didn't put it on the album,
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  Speaker 1: but it turns out I'm not the only one that's
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  Speaker 1: felt that way about somebody else. I think everybody has
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  Speaker 1: a Heather in their life. Heather's out now. That's direct
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  Speaker 1: from Hollywood.