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Conan Gray’s ‘Wishbone’ Short Film Lands on Vevo’s New Artist Portrait Series

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Conan Gray's 'Wishbone' Short Film Lands on Vevo's New Artist Portrait Series

Conan Gray wraps up Vevo’s brand-new “Artist Portrait” franchise with a short film that feels like the kind of gut-punch you get when someone finally says what they’ve been hiding for ages.

The ‘Wishbone’ piece dropped on 30 October, stitching together performances of “Actor“ and “Nauseous“ with candid reflections that make you feel like you’re eavesdropping on therapy sessions in a sea-facing attic.

Shot in a wood-panelled cabin overlooking the coast, Gray sits cross-legged with his guitar, surrounded by his band, delivering stripped-back versions that hit differently when there’s nowhere to hide.

Its an intimate setting that conveys raw confession, which honestly suits an album that Gray admits he wrote in hotel beds and venue basements while touring last year’s Found Heaven.

The Wishbone album itself is a proper return to form, pulling from ’90s alt-rock and chamber pop influences whilst Gray processes patterns he keeps repeating in relationships. 

In the short film, he talks about gravitating towards distant romantic partners and what finally breaking that habit taught him about his own fatal flaws. 

“A lot of what I’ve been searching for my whole career was that if I had some kind of ache in my heart that no song out there could quite heal, then I had to write it myself,” he explains in the piece.

This Vevo collaboration follows Gray’s summer music video trilogy featuring fictional lovers Wilson and Brando, played by Gray and actor Corey Fogelmanis. 

Those videos for “This Song,” “Vodka Cranberry,” and “Caramel” traced a queer romance through Texas backroads that mirrored the album’s themes of abandonment and intimacy.

Gray and Vevo go way back, from his 2020 “DSCVR Artists to Watch” performances through multiple “Live from Vevo Studios” sessions in 2021 and 2024. 

The new Artist Portrait series ditches convention, meeting artists wherever they’re at, literally and creatively. 

For Gray, that meant a seaside writing cabin where he could unpack the messy process of sifting through songs to find what Wishbone actually needed to say.

If you’re into music that feels like reading someone’s diary without permission, this one’s proper essential viewing.

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