| "Vodka Cranberry" | ||||
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| Single by Conan Gray | ||||
| from the album Wishbone | ||||
| Released | July 11, 2025 | |||
| Genre | Indie pop | |||
| Length | 4:05 | |||
| Label | Republic | |||
| Songwriter(s) | ||||
| Producer(s) | Dan Nigro | |||
| Conan Gray singles chronology | ||||
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| Music video | ||||
| "Vodka Cranberry" on YouTube | ||||
"Vodka Cranberry" is a song by American singer-songwriter Conan Gray. It was released through Republic Records on July 11, 2025, as the second single from his fourth studio album Wishbone . Written by Gray and Dan Nigro, the latter of whom also produced the track, the song explores the disorienting emotions associated with an extended breakup and subsequent reunions with an ex. The accompanying music video is the second chapter of a story that began in previous single "This Song" and concludes with the following single "Caramel" starring Gray and Corey Fogelmanis.
Gray announced his fourth studio album Wishbone on May 22, 2025, revealing that he had been slowly working on new music over the previous two years while on tour. [1] "Vodka Cranberry" features as the third track on the album. [2]
"Vodka Cranberry" was the last song that was written for the album, and Gray expressed that he feels it is the track that best represents the overall themes of Wishbone. Gray stated that rejection is the main focus of the song, explaining that “being rejected is the most freeing, incredible thing ever, like continual rejection in life. As you get older, you start to realize that like every rejection ever, whether it’s a person or something you wanted to do that didn’t happen, or anything. It’s so scary to be rejected. It’s so scary to fail, and then you do it a bunch of times and you’re like, ‘wait, this is awesome,’ and it's always pushing you to the right place in life.”
In a track-by-track breadown of the album with Capital , Gray stated of "Vodka Cranberry": "It's one of those songs where I think it's more indicative of my irrational fear of people leaving me. I think I was so afraid of what was going on, so confused, that there was always this instinct of me of like, 'Oh I should just cut it off so that I'm the one who gets to have a say in whether I'm being dumped or not'." [3]
Gray's debut live performance of the song was at the Open'er Festival in Poland on July 5, 2025. Gray performed the song on The Today Show on August 15 alongside four other Wishbone tracks and "Heather" from his debut album Kid Krow . [4] Gray has also played the song on the 2025 VMAs.
It was also included in his set at the Reading and Leeds Festivals on 23 and 24 August. "Vodka Cranberry" featured as part of the setlist for his sixth concert tour, The Wishbone Pajama Show.
The video for "Vodka Cranberry" was released alongside the song itself on July 11, 2025. It was directed by Danica Kleinknecht, who shot it on Kodak 35 film in Gray's home state of Texas. As with the other music videos from Wishbone, the video explores the relationship between two boys, Wilson (Gray) and Brando (Corey Fogelmanis). [5] Following on from "This Song", which depicts the beginning of Wilson and Brando's love story, Vodka Cranberry opens with Wilson contemplating whether his feelings for Brando may no longer be reciprocated, which is then reflected during the rest of the video featuring the pair on an end of summer road trip. The video ends with Wilson waking up alone in a motel to find that Brando has seemingly driven off and left him. [6]
| Chart (2025) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Estonia Airplay (TopHit) [7] | 74 |
| Ireland (IRMA) [8] | 93 |
| New Zealand Hot Singles (RMNZ) [9] | 17 |
| UK Singles (OCC) [10] | 93 |
| US Bubbling Under Hot 100 ( Billboard ) [11] | 11 |
| US Pop Airplay ( Billboard ) [12] | 36 |