Tom Grennan shares, ‘Boys Don't Cry’, the third track unveiled from his new album Everywhere I Went Led Me To Where I Didn't Want To Be - out on on August 15 via Insanity Records.
The single coincides with the announcement earlier this week that Tom will headline Radio 1’s Big Weekend on May 23. A stirring pop anthem with a swaggering 80s groove and warm synth melodies swirling around Tom’s rousing vocal delivery, ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ is another gem from an artist who possesses a gift for wrapping serious messages in euphoric singalong hooks, its lyric tackling mental health and men opening up about their feelings.
“I’m an emotional person,” Tom says. “In a lot of towns, especially where I come from, there’s still this stigma around emotion. Men are told they need to be about football, beer, and zero emotions. Boys Don’t Cry is the tonic to the negative ‘man up’ usage, a term used by us lads who find it hard to deal with other vulnerability and infact our own.”
Listen to ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ on Ryder Cup: Range Sessions.
Tom continues: “It’s the song that helped me go, ‘do you know what? I’m comfortable with being able to cry and process emotions, I call my mum or my missus and some friends who have also struggled but since passed the barrier . It’s a difficult situation being a lad around people when they get emotional, or being emotional yourself and talking about it. So let’s have that conversation.”
With two #1 albums under his belt alongside multiple Brit and Ivor Novello nominations, countless airplay smashes, sold-out arena tours and an MTV Award for Best UK Act, Tom Grennan is already one of the country’s biggest artists. Last August saw the Bedford-born artist headline his biggest show to date to a capacity crowd of 25,000 at Gunnersbury Park.
Keen to explore a new sound, Tom enlisted the songwriter and producer behind hits for Dua Lipa & Chappell Roan and found in Tranter a collaborator who understood exactly what he wanted to say and what he wanted to sound like: George Michael, Prince, Freddie Mercury. “So much of the new music is uplifting — it makes you dance, makes you sing,” Tom says. “It’s about my fight with a side of me I have a lot of trouble with. It’s still a daily battle. But I’ve learned how to fight all these demons and I’m mentally and physically prepared now. I’m in athlete mode.”
It’s set to be a stunning addition to Tom Grennan’s already-impressive discography, which has seen him accumulate over 1.5 million album sales and 2.5 billion streams across his gold-selling debut Lighting Matches (2018), his first UK #1 album Evering Road (2021) and What Ifs & Maybes (2023), another #1 and Tom’s third gold-selling album in a row.
Coinciding with the album release, Tom Grennan will embark on his biggest UK & Ireland arena tour to date this September, with 11 dates announced for the GRENNAN ’25 tour.
