{"id":18595,"date":"2025-04-22T15:37:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T13:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/i-did-things-i-cringe-at-alex-warren-rough-sleeper-viral-prankster-and-now-pop-sensation\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T15:37:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T13:37:45","slug":"i-did-things-i-cringe-at-alex-warren-rough-sleeper-viral-prankster-and-now-pop-sensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/i-did-things-i-cringe-at-alex-warren-rough-sleeper-viral-prankster-and-now-pop-sensation\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I did things I cringe at\u2019: Alex Warren, rough-sleeper, viral prankster and now pop sensation"},"content":{"rendered":"

He slept in cars, found notoriety on social media and could be pop\u2019s next superstar. The singer of Ordinary, the longest-running No 1 of the year, talks about his journey to breakout success<\/p>\n

At 18, Alex Warren was homeless, sneaking into the gym of a gated community in his home town of Carlsbad, California, to shower for job interviews and film TikTok videos of himself singing in the bathroom. Six years later he is one of pop\u2019s next potential superstars. His bombastic ballad Ordinary has been No 1 in the UK charts for five weeks, the longest-running chart leader this year, and entered the US Top 10 last week. As soon as he heard the finished version, he was \u201cfreaking out \u2013 my wife and I listened to it on repeat for our entire drive home, for 45 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ordinary may be Warren\u2019s breakout hit but he\u2019s been famous for a long time. He gained notoriety on social media in his teens by making hugely popular videos<\/a> with titles such as \u201cBROTHER WAKES UP IN MIDDLE OF LAKE PRANK!\u201d In 2019 he co-founded the Hype House, a shared house of content creators (including the D\u2019Amelio sisters and Addison Rae) known for Covid-era internet videos, as well as at least one controversial facemask-free influencer party and, eventually, a $300,000 (\u00a3226,000) lawsuit \u2013 which Warren wasn\u2019t named in \u2013 which alleged property damage and unpaid rent.<\/p>\n

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\nHe slept in cars, found notoriety on social media and could be pop\u2019s next superstar. The singer of Ordinary, the longest-running No 1 of the year, talks about his journey to breakout success
\nAt 18, Alex Warren was homeless, sneaking into the gym of a gated community in his home town of Carlsbad, California, to shower for job interviews and film TikTok videos of himself singing in the bathroom. Six years later he is one of pop\u2019s next potential superstars. His bombastic ballad Ordinary has been No 1 in the UK charts for five weeks, the longest-running chart leader this year, and entered the US Top 10 last week. As soon as he heard the finished version, he was \u201cfreaking out \u2013 my wife and I listened to it on repeat for our entire drive home, for 45 minutes.\u201d
\nOrdinary may be Warren\u2019s breakout hit but he\u2019s been famous for a long time. He gained notoriety on social media in his teens by making hugely popular videos with titles such as \u201cBROTHER WAKES UP IN MIDDLE OF LAKE PRANK!\u201d In 2019 he co-founded the Hype House, a shared house of content creators (including the D\u2019Amelio sisters and Addison Rae) known for Covid-era internet videos, as well as at least one controversial facemask-free influencer party and, eventually, a $300,000 (\u00a3226,000) lawsuit \u2013 which Warren wasn\u2019t named in \u2013 which alleged property damage and unpaid rent. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He slept in cars, found notoriety on social media and could be pop\u2019s next superstar. The singer of Ordinary, the longest-running No 1 of the year, talks about his journey to breakout success At 18, Alex Warren was homeless, sneaking into the gym of a gated community in his home town of Carlsbad, California, to …<\/p>\n

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