- 2025-03-14
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MUSIC
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Tom Grennan Premieres New Song “Boys Don't Cry” on BBC Radio 1
British singer-songwriter Tom Grennan premiered a new song “Boys Don't Cry” on BBC Radio 1's New Music Show with Jack Saunders.
The song is the third single off of his upcoming fourth studio album “Everywhere I Went, Led Me To Where I Didn't Want To Be”, following “Shadowboxing” and “Higher”.
The new album is set to be released on August 15, 2025 and comprises 15 songs. On the album, he worked with producer Max Martin.
The track was written by Carl Falk, Max Grahn, Mike Needle, and Tom Grennan. Produced by Carl Falk and Fat Max Gsus.
“It's the new era. This is a new me,” Tom Grennan told Jack Saunders about the song. “Amazing. Honestly, for this to be out finally, I've had it for a while. But it's one of those songs when I wrote it. When I sang Boys, it just instant I was like, this feels like a hit already. But also writing a song that means the world and when I was the idea came along, I've been back to Bedford, my hometown. And being from Bedford, I feel like the stigma is still like boys and men aren't allowed to have feelings, aren't capable of showing their feelings.”- He continued, “I remember sitting around a table with my friends. And it was the first time, really as mates, we had a conversation about 'Are you doing all right?' And it was such a deep opening for our friendship and an understanding of each other where we've gone. I'm doing okay, or I'm not doing all right. And that chat and that conversation just opened so many doors as friends, and just for ourselves as well, so it was good. And that's where the idea came from. I went over to Sweden and then that idea, that whole thing, popped to my head. I was like, I feel like I need to write this song and I did.”
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He added, “I feel like I'm an emotional person anyway, but as it goes, when, like I say, going back to Bedford, and that stigma around it like I feel like it's so important. I think it was playing football. I think it was coming from the place I've come from being in school. If you were to ever look weak or ever to look as vulnerable, you'd have people back pouncing. And I think that stigma and that thing just has to be a raise and break it down. And for me, it was a big thing to do.” - source : BBC Radio 1
