{"id":5254,"date":"2024-01-04T16:51:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T21:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/read.streamapse.com\/?p=5254"},"modified":"2025-05-17T18:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T23:01:17","slug":"teddy-swims-a-debut-lp-that-tackles-self-exploration-through-visceral-songwriting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=5254","title":{"rendered":"Teddy Swims \u2014 A Debut LP That Tackles Self-Exploration Through Visceral Songwriting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teddy Swims began uploading covers of Michael Jackson, Amy Winehouse, and Shania Twain on social media in June 2019, captivating viewers in the millions with his raspy, powerhouse vocals.<\/p>\n

After that he signed a deal with Warner Records, released his single \u201cPicky,\u201d completed his first headline tour, and shared his 2021 debut EP Unlearning.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a zero-to-100 whiplash that can be difficult to process in the moment, but with time Swims sensed a life\u2019s changing of the seasons: things, and people, coming and going. While the Georgia-born singer-songwriter has always bared his heart through his music, from feeling unlucky in love on Unlearning\u2019s \u201cWill It Find Me\u201d to practicing gratitude on 2021\u2019s \u201cSimple Things,\u201d other layers\u2014fears, anxieties, and insecurities\u2014remained unplumbed.<\/p>\n

I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 1), Swims\u2019 full-length debut, embarks on that deeper self-exploration through visceral storytelling. The title comes from his observation that younger generations are breaking decades of stigma by being open about their mental health.<\/p>\n

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By opening up about his struggles with love and loss, he takes his first step towards healing. On album opener \u201cSome Things I\u2019ll Never Know,\u201d Swims asks a question to which he doesn\u2019t really want the answer: \u201cWhen did your heart let me go?\u201d Reconciling with a failing relationship over gentle piano, he compares toxic love to addiction on \u201cLose Control,\u201d a bluesy ballad of spiraling vocal runs, wailing electric guitar solos, and pounding drums. Swims breaks the cycle on \u201cThe Door,\u201d reaching a sonic and emotional peak as he belts, \u201cI said I would die for you, baby\/But I can\u2019t take this pain no more.\u201d Here, he doesn\u2019t sing from the soul as much as rip it out and lay it bare, guts and all. The mood turns more subdued with the breezy country guitars of \u201cYou Still Get to Me,\u201d an admission that feelings don\u2019t always end with the breakup. But on the emotional, croon-filled closer \u201cEvergreen,\u201d Swims is ready to fall in love again, even if it means letting his guard down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Teddy Swims began uploading covers of Michael Jackson, Amy Winehouse, and Shania Twain on social media in June 2019, captivating viewers in the millions with his raspy, powerhouse vocals. After that he signed a deal with Warner Records, released his single \u201cPicky,\u201d completed his first headline tour, and shared his 2021 debut EP Unlearning. It\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conversations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6006,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5254\/revisions\/6006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}