On his deeply personal new single “By Your Side,” pop star Conor Maynard channels the frantic experience of watching a relationship come to an end that you so badly don’t want to let go of. “It’s getting so hard to breathe,” Maynard sings, “whatever happens keep hold of me.” The second in a series of singles inspired by an extremely difficult breakup he went through in the winter of 2022, “By Your Side” is Maynard’s message to his fans who reached out to him in the wake of the breakup and his disappearance from social media, as he took time to heel and reflect on his experience. Maynard recalls. “I received a lot of messages when I came back online, from fans and even just people that related to the feeling of wanting to take a break from the pressures of social media. I realized just how ...