Alex Warren on Honoring His Parents on ‘WILDCHILD’ & His Wife’s Reaction to Another Love Song: ‘She’s Like, ‘I Get It, You Like Me”
The "Ordinary" singer stops by the Billboard News studio to talk inspiration & pending fatherhood.
Alex Warren's upcoming album, WILDCHILD, is a deeply personal project inspired by his live performances, which often shift between moments of joy and sorrow. The 28th of August sees the album's release on Atlantic. The narrative of WILDCHILD is woven together by the influence of Warren's parents; his father, who referred to him as a "wild child," passed away when Warren was only nine years old.
Clips of a video Warren made for his late father are included within the album, and Warren now intends to create similar videos for his own children. The process of recording the album was collaborative, with core members Adam Yaron, Cal Shapiro, and Mags Duval contributing their talents, most notably on the hit single "Ordinary."
This particular track spent an impressive 10 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 last year and was named Billboard's 2025 Song of the Summer. Warren acknowledges that few of his future works will match the success of "Ordinary," accepting the statistical impossibility. Several tracks on WILDCHILD reflect Warren's romantic relationship with his wife, Kouvr Annon, demonstrating his commitment to the artist he's become, but his wife has grown accustomed to hearing about his feelings, eventually responding, "All right, dude, I get it—you like me."
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