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\n\tAlex Warren opens up about the stories behind his new album Wild Child <\/em>in this Billboard News Interview\u2014from writing through grief and honoring his late parents to processing the life-changing success of his Billboard Hot 100 hit \u201cOrdinary.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tAlex Warren \n\tMelinda Newman \n\tAlex Warren \n\tMelinda Newman \n\tAlex Warren \n\tMelinda Newman \n\tAlex Warren \n\tMelinda Newman \n\tAlex Warren \n\tMelinda Newman \n\tAlex Warren \n\tMelinda Newman \n\tAlex Warren \n\tMelinda Newman \n\tAlex Warren \n\tMelinda Newman \n\tAlex Warren \n\tMelinda Newman \n\tAlex Warren \n\tMelinda Newman Watch the full video above! <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/video\/alex-warren-wild-child-interview\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/billboardnewsinterview_alexwarren_thumb4.jpg?w=1024″] Alex Warren opens up about the stories behind his new album Wild Child in this Billboard News Interview\u2014from writing through grief and honoring his late parents to processing the life-changing success of his Billboard Hot 100 hit \u201cOrdinary.\u201d Alex WarrenYou have to think how many love songs I\u2019ve written about this girl, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-2112696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2112696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2112696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2112696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2112696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
You have to think how many love songs I\u2019ve written about this girl, you know? Like, at a certain point she\u2019s like, \u201cAlright, dude. I get it.\u201d Hey, it\u2019s Alex Warren, and you\u2019re watching Billboard News.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m Melinda Newman with Billboard News, and we\u2019re here with Alex Warren-<\/p>\n
Hey<\/p>\n
. . . Who\u2019s got a new album coming out.<\/p>\n
That I do.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been a while since I\u2019ve seen you.<\/p>\n
I know.<\/p>\n
And you were just telling us you were surfing this morning.<\/p>\n
I was.<\/p>\n
So life is good.<\/p>\n
It is, honestly. I\u2019ve been surfing every day since I\u2019ve been here. I love being in California, \u2019cause all I do is just surf and eat burritos. That\u2019s literally it. I, I\u2019m. . . I wish I was, like, a cool partier, showing up to all the celebrity hangouts. I literally, uh, f\u2013k off and go surf.<\/p>\n
I think you\u2019re making the right choice.<\/p>\n
Yeah.<\/p>\n
In addition to the surfing-<\/p>\n
Yeah<\/p>\n
. . . you\u2019ve had a really unbelievable year. This time last year, you were riding the wave-.<\/p>\n
Yeah, there you go. Alright . . .<\/p>\n
Of your Hot 100-<\/p>\n
Yes<\/p>\n
. . . smash,\u201d Ordinary.\u201d<\/p>\n