A young musician finds success by sharing emotional songs on TikTok during the pandemic.
After a decade-plus of tailgating, beer-drinking songs clogging up playlists, the pandemic struck and forced artists and fans alike indoors with their thoughts. And shit got real, fast. “They got trapped inside of wherever they were and they had a lot of time to sit down and think, and that flustered up their minds,” Flores says. “People felt emotions that they hadn’t felt before.” Emotional songwriting just happened to be Flores’ bread and butter.
A 22-year-old Oklahoman who often sings about subjects like addiction and suicide, he quickly found an audience for the songs he was posting on TikTok, rich in substance and naked in vulnerability. “Please Don’t Go,” a desperate plea to a loved one to not take their own life, exploded, and Flores became a sounding board for listeners’ own personal stories of isolation and tragedy.— the epicenter of the Red Dirt music movement but also a region where football is religion — Flores stood out from an early age. “I’ve never fit in because I shared my feelings,” he says. “I was different.” His self-deprecating song “Wildcat” is about his role on the field not as a “macho man” player but as his school’s feline mascot. “Kids just call you a pussy for sharing how you feel, and I just finally got tired of it. I was like ‘I’m gonna embrace i
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