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March 18, 2026 10 mins

Alex Warren talks Grammys performance, his friendship with Ed Sheeran, and the success of "Ordinary."

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, before we play fever Dream from Alex Warren, let's
ask Alex Warren for permission to play fever Dream.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Alex, go for it.

Speaker 3 (00:07):
I'm in.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
How you doing, Alex?

Speaker 3 (00:10):
Good to see you good. How are you guys? This
is awesome. I feel like I'm back home, but just
calling in.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Well you are, this is what's happening. So yeah, what's
going on is we're zooming with Alex. He's in bed.
It's weird being in bed with Alex Warren. Anyone having
an issue with this, we.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Get no position. I'm in as well.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
So good.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
I was looking at your Instagram. There's a couple of
things I've got questions about. First of all, you hanging
out with Robert Irwin in this massive crocodile.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Yes, yes, Wally.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
The croc is Wally.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Wally's eight.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
Well, Rob, he educated me on the differences, and I'm
having issues recalling exactly what that is. But he was
very adamant that it was an alligator and it was
so sick and I can't He's the coolest.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
I kept going around telling my wife, I'm like, I
made a friend. We're so so and it's so rad.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
I love that.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
I know I know he's so cool. I text him
a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Now, Oh my gosh, Elvis would love to text him
a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
He's the coolest guy ever.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
But if he's just wearing underwear, it's a whole different Robert. Yeah,
it's a different scene.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Hey, but I haven't I haven't had the pleasure of
knowing that Robert yet.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Well, i'll send you photos. Hey.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
So, so I flipped down to your next post and
you're talking about your arena tour going on sale in Singapore,
in Australia and New Zealand. I guess this is why
you're hanging out with Robert to announce the Australia leg
of the tour.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
Every single time I do a tour announcement, everything I
do when it comes to creative wise, like I really
wanted to match the music. I think a lot of times,
you know, people kind of just think I would just
throw up a tour ad Matt and that's what I
was kind of getting pressure to do this time, and I.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Was like, no, we have to do the whole thing.
We have to fully.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
Like I'm just a big fan of making it almost
like a mini movie in some ways, because I think
it's entertaining to give you like a little sneak peak
of what's happening. And so I asked Rob if he'd
be down, and he's like, heck yeah, And he flew
out from Australia for the one day to film it,
and then it went right back home. And I was thought,
that was the coolest thing I've ever I've ever seen.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Wow, Okay, should we just let's just do this entire interview?
Just looking at his instagram, I think that sounds like
we're gonna raw. Doctor tell me that man is not
great looking.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
That was a performance. You're the only one who actually say.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah, did you ever get amazed watching yourself singing, Alex?

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Because you really are a great on stage?

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Oh? Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
I don't speak I'm listening to you.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Good god.

Speaker 5 (02:42):
Wait, you know what, you know how we listen to
our voices when we're doing radio and we hate it.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
We can't stand we hear.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
I was just about to say, I don't are you
guys with singing? I don't watch my performances.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
Ever, oh the time I'm showing you still still to
this day, I've never actually watched them.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
I just have someone else post those.

Speaker 4 (02:59):
I The funniest thing ever is that I to this
day haven't even watched my Grammy's performance.

Speaker 5 (03:04):
Oh I watched it.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
I think I heard enough about it from the internet.

Speaker 5 (03:12):
I actually thought it was a really awesome moment because one,
you did a good job of working with some technical difficulties,
but two, it was so obvious that a lot of
other people were lip syncing, and then when you had
your issue, I was like, Bam, there it goes. He's
actually singing.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
I love this.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
He's the opposite of Millie Vanilli.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yeah, very sweet. That means the world. You guys are
so kind.

Speaker 5 (03:32):
So you did not feel that way, Okay.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
No, no, no, no.

Speaker 4 (03:35):
I'm I'm probably the hardest person ever on myself. So
I'm I'm constantly like I could have done this better.
Like every time I get off stage, even if it's
a great performance, I'm always critiquing myself. So it's nice
to actually hear like nice things.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
It's all nice.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
By the way, if someone's watching this interview, it's kind
of great. Because Alex is in his bedroom, it's a
sunny day. I see it like a big cathedral ceiling.
I see white sheets, eat linen ish that's all love.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
I love that.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Hey, let's go over some numbers here. Since we met
you about about a year ago. Yeah, okay, let this
sink in Ordinary has streamed over three billion times in
one year.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Three billion.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
It spent ten weeks at number one on the Billboard
Hot one hundred was the top selling song in the
US last year, as a matter of fact.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
And we ruined it.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Radio ruined the song to the point where people didn't
want to hear it again because we played it.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
More than any other song all year long. Is that
a good or bad thing? Over?

Speaker 3 (04:30):
Its amazing? I love it. I have obsessed with it,
gave that up.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
We're still playing it.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
I still love that.

Speaker 4 (04:40):
It's still every day every time I hear it, Like,
it's so funny because you think you'd get used to it.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
Every time I hear it.

Speaker 4 (04:46):
It's cool because I'm like, whoa, that's me, and I
know like that feeling. Everyone's like, oh, yeah, of course
you get that feeling, but like, truly, it doesn't go away.
It's such a strange feeling of like kind. I don't
know how I sharing does it?

Speaker 3 (04:58):
You do it? I don't know. I can't imagine.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
I can't imagine maybe maybe I'll put myself in his
shoes today.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
But that man, that man, I don't know. I love him.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
Well, now, fever Dream will start playing that over and
over until we ruin that one too. But that's good,
Apparently I love that. I'm gonna give you a few
more numbers. Then let's let's go for a free for all. Uh,
the Arena tour kicks off in the spring. You're gonna
be at the iHeart Radio Awards of Music Awards in
a couple of weeks with us.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah, I think that's one week?

Speaker 2 (05:24):
Wow? Is it one week? Maybe we should know that at.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
Least I'm rehearsing like it's okay, okay, no matter what.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
Look, I'm glad you're on to tell us when our
awards are because I have no clue. But I got
good news and bad news for all of us New Yorkers.
Good news sold out at the garden. Bad news sold
out can't get tickets. Okay, So talk about what that
feels like. Streaming three billion hits for your song and
now you sold out places like oh, the O two
Arena in London, Medicine Square Garden in New York City.

(05:51):
It's been a year since we've met. You talk about it.

Speaker 4 (05:54):
No, I know, it's insane, some mighty credit you've told
make success actually funny enough if you think about it,
But I don't know. It's been definitely like a learning curve,
just under excited. I think, you know, last year, a
year before that, I was always like, oh, are people
actually outside? Now it's like it's getting to the point
where it's it's it's getting to be something. And I
don't know, it's weird. You u city stats and it

(06:15):
sounds like it's someone else. So it's kind of like
me trying to understand that that's me.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
Is pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
All right, Questions what do you have for Alex?

Speaker 5 (06:21):
I have a question. I wanted to go back to
something you said in the beginning. Okay, so you said,
now you have a new friend, Robert Irwin. Yeah, thinking
about how that must be tough. It's tough enough to
make friends as an adult in general, but once you
hit a certain level of fame, I would imagine it
becomes tougher. So what is that like for you trying
to make friends?

Speaker 3 (06:39):
Now?

Speaker 4 (06:41):
I'm too friendly for my own jurne if that makes sense. Like,
it's so funny because I love it when, like, oh,
I eat alone. It's one of my favorite things I do.
And so I'll go out and eat and sit down
at like a restaurant or whatever, and like on tour
or whatever, and if someone comes up to me, I
tell them to take a seat and get to know them.
And it's so fun for me to get to know
people who I don't know. I think it's such a
weird thing that no one does for some reason. No

(07:01):
one talks anymore because they're all clued to their phone.
So it's nice when someone like kind of like comes
up and says, I love your music, and I'm like,
take a seat and let's talk.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
And so it's been really fun.

Speaker 4 (07:09):
I do it a lot, and I think that's the problems.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
I'm a little too friendly for my own and some
people know, but I don't know. Rob's cool because Rob
I growing up.

Speaker 4 (07:19):
I lost my dad and Rob lost his, and I
think there was something so cool about having a connection
with someone where I think we both kind of have
a similar story and I'm living my life trying to
kind of, you know, make my dad proud, and I
can imagine that he's probably doing the same. And so
we were talking and he surfs, and you know, we
have very similar interests, so it's really exciting. When I
tour in Australia, him and I are gonna get together
there and go surf and I'm gonna check out the

(07:40):
compound or the conservation.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
It's gonna be amazing.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
Yeah, I'm sure he's got some rolling around and I
know what we've learned here. Next time you see Alex
Warren by himself at a bar eating, just jump right in.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
Seriously, it's the best. It's so fun.

Speaker 4 (07:53):
It is the coolest thing ever, and I highly urge
anyone else just always invite someone to your.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
Table and talk.

Speaker 5 (07:58):
Have you figured out a way to get out the
conversation though, when you're like all right, all right.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
This is enough? Do you know what's funny? I learned
that from Ed Shearon.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
Ed doesn't go on his phone, so he's such a
I watched to navigate conversations like a pro, and for
me at least, I've kind of carried that in as well.
It's really nice because you know, I'm one of the
people where I can keep a conversation going, So it
really just comes down to how long they can talk.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
So how does Ed do it? How does Ed move on.

Speaker 4 (08:21):
As so eloquent with his words, He politely, just like
he always has an out, whether it's kids or whether
it's something he knows exactly what to say where it's
you would never expect. It's like, oh, he was trying
to get a conversation, but like I know he was
getting out of that conversation. It's the best. And also
like every time there's a show when we play, him
and I have a really great talk to talk because

(08:42):
I think he just gets it, especially the position that
we're both in. So it's always just fun to have
conversations and watch him like kind of weasel his way out.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
Wait, did you want his compound yet? Because he has
a compound as well.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
No, I want you so bad.

Speaker 5 (08:53):
Don't bar on his friend.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
We heard he has like a cemetery a place where
he's burying himself. When yeah, that sounds.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
Like a lot of fus I think. I think I
want to test the security and sneak on. I'll figure
it out, get it in there.

Speaker 4 (09:06):
No, yeah, I imagine, imagine. I like that's the best
story evers that I've broke into his house.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
He would he would probably welcome you and then he
would find a way to make you.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
Leave just in conversation.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
How good that security really is.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
He has his compound and the rest of the town's
not crazy about it. But he has a huge.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
Huge field where he goes.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
He can there's a track around it where can go
for walks with the family. And he's got that bar
and they turned into a bar. It's a pub.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
And uh, I know you need a cam, Alex, you
need a compound. You're working too hard. You got to
build your compound.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
You know what. We've upgraded from gas lanterns last time out.
That's here.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
Yeah, all right, there you go. Well, look I want
to play fever Dream.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
We want to and I want to. Uh, we'll welcome
you into our studio. We bring your bed next time
you're in New York City, bring.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
It back to the studio. I will, I will lounge.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
We'll have you in the lounge. We'll call it a
lounge and you'll lounge and we'll work pajamas.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
I don't care. But congratulations on everything. And it's Alex Warren.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
This is
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