![]() ![]() He posted “All American Boy” as a name-your-price, no minimum track, and quickly became the fastest, and best-selling, track ever on Bandcamp. Within a few days, Grand was fielding calls from CNN and the associated press. His song snowballed on social media: friends-of-friends shared it on Facebook, pop culture blogs like Buzzfeed picked it up, followed, in short order, by their more mainstream counterparts. Within days, Grand had become the gay Everyman, a male Taylor Swift with more pathos and sharper politics. ![]() But viewers also glommed onto the story behind it, of an unrequited crush that stemmed from a friend giving mixed signals – something that many YouTube commenters said they’d experienced. The catchy, classic sound of his debut track, “All-American Boy,” might explain why the video went massively viral when he posted it on July 2. And in his case, that seemingly contradictory identity is an asset rather than a limitation. Grand insists he isn’t the first gay country singer, but he’s certainly one of a small handful. During a recent CNN interview – his first on national television - he had the look of someone pretending to understand a poorly told joke politely fielding questions about his homosexuality, his unexpected star turn, and the home-made, gay-love-story video that initiated it. Pre-order buy pre-order buy you own this wishlist in wishlist go to album go to track go to album go to trackĬonsidering his swift rise to fame, it’s perhaps no surprise that 23 year-old, Chicago-raised country singer Steve Grand still gets doe-in-the-headlights eyes whenever a camera trains on him. ![]()
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