Lorey Gray talks about music journey and how being Taylor Swift superfan helped her: 'There were so many opinions'

2023-05-27 17:48

Like many across the world, TikTok sensation turned musician Loren Gray is also a Swiftie

The multi-hyphenated talent of Loren Gray knows no bounds. With a whopping following of 24 million on Instagram, and 54 million on TikTok, the content creator turned music star has come a long way. In 2015, Gray started creating videos on TikTok (then Musical.ly) just for fun along with her friends but soon started getting viral which changed the course of her life.

Today, Gray is not just a TikTok star though. She is a singer, songwriter, and a massive social media personality, and in the past, her eye roll has been praised by the legendary Taylor Swift when she starred in Swift’s music video of 'The Man'.

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Loren Gray talks about her debut album ‘Guilty’

In a YouTube interview with Kyle Meredith, Gray discussed her debut album, 'Guilty' which took her two years to write and has been independently released. “I have been wanting to write an album since I started making music six years ago now," Gray adds.

She also spoke about how an album must sound cohesive even though there is an essence of diversity in all the songs. When implored upon what it meant to be a singer and make a career in the public eye, Gray said, “I signed to a label so young. I signed to a capital when I was sixteen and there were so many differing opinions of who I should be rather than just me being me. I mean I started social media before I started making music and I was already solidified as Loren, as who I am.”

“To me, there wasn’t really a need to create this persona when I already existed and I was enough for people and I just wanted a different avenue,” she adds.

“I feel like for the past however many years everything’s always been about Loren and Loren can dance… and look how sexy Loren is… and I wanted something different. I wanted a story and I wanted to tell that story through having this sort of secondary character." she says.

Oh, and Loren Gray is a Swiftie

Like the rest of the world, Loren Gray is also a proud Swifty. In the interview with Meredith, she opened up about how being a superfan of Taylor Swift and Eminem has shaped the way she builds worlds inside her songs. “It’s beyond fair to call me a Swiftie," she says.

She further added, “From the beginning of when I started listening to music I grew up with two inspirations, Taylor Swift and Eminem — very different ends of the spectrum but you’d be surprised how much overlap there is in the lyricism and the way they’re able to connect to their audience.”