Teddy Swims‘ last album was called I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 1), and his new album is called I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 2). But the title of the new album isn’t exactly true anymore.
Speaking to Music Week, Teddy says that between his two albums, he started seeing a therapist on his own and also with his partner, Raiche Wright, who is expecting the couple’s first child.
“The first project was so much me trying to heal and left so many questions of trying to get to the other side of what that was like,” he says. “I can now come with more answers and a little less turmoil. There’s still heartbreak in there, but it feels like I can talk about it, because … I’m on the other side of it.”
Teddy was first signed to his record label back in 2019, but it was only in the past year that he found fame — and a Grammy nod — with “Lose Control.” But he says that, in retrospect, the timing worked out for the better.
“I thought it was all going to come right then, like I’d finally made it,” he tells Music Week. “I was going to break through. And then we went through the pandemic and it took five years to get to where I thought I was supposed to be.”
“You want everything right now, but God’s timing is real. I feel like I’m ready for it, mentally, physically and spiritually,” he explains.
“If I would’ve got to where I’m at right now five years ago, I would’ve sent it to my liver or right up my nose. I know how to be this. I know what to stand on and what to represent. I’ve really got it figured out.”
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