Prolific L.A.-based singer-songwriter and producer Henry Morris – whose forthcoming album is titled “Kiss Me Extra Hard,” drops Oct. 16 and follows his debut album “Jawbreaker” (2024), “Late Bloomer, Early Death” (2025) and “Sex With My Ex” (2026) – opens for British singer-songwriter Artemas at Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas in Linq Promenade on the Las Vegas Strip this Friday, Sept. 11.

Morris’s new single “One Night Stand” is out via Giant Music, and the video can be viewed on YouTube and other streaming services. Morris supported Artemas earlier this year and continues with him on the 38-date “Getting Up to No Good Tour,” his largest run to date, which opened on Tuesday, Sept. 8, in Vancouver, B.C., and ends on Dec. 14 at London’s O2 Academy Brixton.

“Jawbreaker,” produced with Rob Cavallo, earned comparisons to Chris Isaak and Lana Del Rey and cosigns from Michael Bublé, Cigarettes After Sex, Saint Levant, Joe Jonas and Ross MacDonald of The 1975. “One Night Stand,” the song and video, is immediately enchanting, sexy and relatable.

Morris, 27, refreshingly chill, earnest, unrehearsed and sitting with his publicist Charlie Lewis, discussed, via Google Chat on Wednesday, Sept. 9, his new album and single, Las Vegas, G-Eazy, touring with Artemas, his plans post-tour and more:

Good afternoon. How are you, Henry?

Hey, Don. What up? I’m good. We’re in Vancouver. I just had a little brewski, so my headache is gone. It’s gorgeous here.

Oh, that’s good. Thank you for taking the time to talk with me today. I really appreciate it.

Absolutely. I am super happy. I’m so happy we get to do this. Thank you for taking the time for me.

Tell me what your fans can expect at Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas this Friday night.

No. 1, obviously they can expect a great show. No. 2, I’m gonna be linking up with G-Eazy in Las Vegas, and we may or may not make an extremely 2014-style record. It would be cool. Me, Artemas and G-Eazy are gonna hit the town, and this show is gonna be amazing.

Have you been to Las Vegas before?

Yeah, when we were doing the tour for Artemas, we had a day off in Vegas and ran around filming random sh*t. It was really fun.

We had a day off, so I’m pretty sure we just went there and lost hundreds of dollars and then won it back and left even. Thank God, I’m a terrible gambler. I don’t have it in my heart. I also don’t enjoy it, but I just did it ’cause everyone else is doing it.

A little mix of the old and new gen, a little bit of gambling and a little bit of TikTok.

Your forthcoming album “Kiss Me Extra Hard” is going to be released on Oct. 16. Can you tell me a little bit about it?

Every time I try to talk about the album, I’m still so shocked to think people would care about it. I don’t know. I mean, it’s the best thing I’ve ever made. I worked with Artemas on the album, and having his cosign on it really makes me feel special and like I’m doing the right thing. It’s really, finally, I blocked into who I am. It’s a mix of gothic Lana Del Rey, I feel pain, but also with my West Coast roots. There’s a lot of California in it.

It’s ghostly palm trees. It’s really sexy. It’s about the three things that I think run the world, whether they’re good or bad, which is money, sex, power, drugs. Oh, wait, sorry. I messed it up. Money, drugs and sex. It’s really just those three things that push the needle forward.

If you had to choose just one of the three, which would be your top choice?

Sex because there’s love in that one, too. That’s before humans even had money. It was all about that.

I listened to your new single “One Night Stand” and watched the video. I think it’s fantastic. Tell me about the inspiration for this song and also the video.

Thank you. So, that song is really just mostly about, I mean not to be a bummer, but my whole life, I’ve just really wanted people to see me as cool, and it’s driven me to do really stupid things that have f*cked up my psychology deeply, and I still haven’t really fixed that or put any work toward fixing it, so I still am extremely motivated by the validation of other people.

And so that song is really about changing every single part of who I am in order for somebody to like me. And it’s kind of like the epitome of a one night stand. You know, you go out, you really like someone … I mean, we just show them the best version of yourself. I know it’s your damn loss because if they like that version of yourself, it’s not really you. And they don’t even like you anyways.

It’s really about my relationships that I’ve had in my life, romantically. It’s bad to still keep a fake version of yourself, and that’s what the video is, too. It’s me and the black metal corpse paint, which I was mortified because I really didn’t want it to come across as The Joker. That’s so cringe. I would never dress up like The Joker in a music video. I’m praying to God that nobody thought that.

But the corpse thing is the cool version of me. It doesn’t give a f*ck, and it’s just saying crazy sh*t and always getting the girl. And then you’ll see in this next music video, it’s a series of four, there’s versions of me that are the real ones that get extremely depressed and don’t get enough love and grow to resent everybody around them because they only like the fake version.

What are you looking forward to in Las Vegas this Friday performing, and how long are you here?

We’re gonna get there the day of the show, the 11th, and then I think we might be there the day after. I think it’s just gonna be wake up, sound check, shoot some videos, shoot the sh*t with G-Eazy for a second and see if we can make something awesome. We’ll see. I don’t like putting pressure on that kind of stuff.

Your debut album “Jawbreaker” was highly praised. Was there pressure to do something better and evolve?

I mean, it’s more of a pressure on the marketing and social media side because I genuinely feel like I’ve improved my writing and the quality of the music exponentially. Every time I get in the studio, I meet new people and learn from people who are better than me.

I keep praising this dude, but, Artemas, when I started writing with him, my writing and my understanding of what it is to make a good song and melody went through the roof ’cause the dude does it like nobody else.

There’s more pressure that I put on myself. I really love these songs. I really want people to hear them. But I’m also trying to balance it out by being if you chase something too hard, it runs away. So what I’m trying to do with this album is I make what I think are fantastic songs, I do what I can, and then I f*ck off, and it is what it is.

How did it come about that you ended up supporting Artemas on his tour?

Artemas really loves one of the first songs I’ve ever released called “You Can Never Love You.” And he’s pissed that I’m not playing it on this tour, so I might have to add it back in a set for him. He hit me up after that song dropped and was like, “Love this song, mate. Because he’s British.” And I was a little kid jumping around. We just talked a little bit over Instagram.

Then he had the No. 1 song in the world immediately after, and I was like, “I probably should have capitalized on that situation a little earlier.” A year or two went by, and I invited him to one of my shows on “The Jawbreaker Tour.” He wanted to go, but there’s a venue in London called The Troubadour, when I was playing the one in L.A., so there was a misunderstanding.

He came to L.A., and we did a session together. I’m telling you, it was one of the most fun sessions I’ve ever had in my life ’cause it was like talking to myself, but honestly a version of myself that’s more locked in and better at songwriting.

I learned so much sh*t. We clicked, did a bunch of sessions, and he asked me when Isabel LaRosa dropped out, he asked me to join the tour.

What’s next for you after this new album and touring?

After the album drops, we’re going on the Europe tour, and then it’s the void. I seriously have no idea. I’m gonna try to write my magnum opus album, and I don’t know what it’s gonna be, but … really after that, I have no idea. It’s so weird.

The all-ages Artemas and Henry Morris concert is at Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas on Friday, Sept. 11. Doors open at 7 p.m. More: HenryMorrisXOXO.com and @HenryMorrisXOXO on Instagram and TikTok