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\n\tTeddy Swims<\/a> is giddy about his first Coachella<\/a> set this weekend. With his festival slot, the soulful singer will bid farewell to his I\u2019ve Tried Everything But Therapy<\/em> era, the breakout chapter that propelled him into A-list territory thanks to his chart-dominating \u201cLose Control.\u201d But it will also introduce what\u2019s next: a new album and a pop-rock-leaning direction, beginning with his single \u201cMr. Know It All,\u201d out Friday, which he\u2019ll debut live.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI don\u2019t know if I\u2019m supposed to say it, but whatever,\u201d Swims immediately tells The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> with a laugh before teasing his special guests for the set: \u201cWe had an 80s legend come by yesterday. I can\u2019t say who, but he sang in the best rock band of all time.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tHe also says there will be two other guests, who swung by rehearsals that Tuesday: \u201cthe hottest guy in a band full of sexy siblings\u201d and an artist that he went viral for covering, behind \u201cpossibly the greatest song that came out of the 2000s.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWe have quite a lineup,\u201d he adds.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tSwims is the lone artist playing both Coachella and Stagecoach this year. The moment marks a major turning point for Swims\u2019 career. Last year, \u201cLose Control\u201d broke records on the Billboard<\/em> Hot 100, becoming the longest-lasting song in the chart\u2019s history and surpassing 100 weeks. Billboard<\/em> changed chart metrics late last year that made it more difficult for older songs to stay on the chart.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIt\u2019s crazy, man. I can\u2019t believe it. They changed the rule for Ted! They said, \u2018Never again,\u2019\u201d he says. \u201cMy biggest upset with that was, \u2018damn, now I\u2019m not even going to be able to beat that!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tFor the new music, Swims says he\u2019s leaning into a diversified sonic palette shaped by Eighties rock influences, including The Police, Sting, and Phil Collins, while still maintaining his soul and R&B essence in some other tracks.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tAhead of both his Coachella and Stagecoach performances, Swims opens up about who he\u2019ll bring out, the emotional journey behind his breakout success, and why vulnerability continues to guide his music. \u201cI wanted to touch a place we haven\u2019t gone before,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n \n\tHow are things going? How is prep going for Coachella and Stagecoach?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tOh, it\u2019s amazing. We got a couple of our surprise guests coming in today for rehearsals.<\/p>\n \n\tHow did those conversations start?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tWell, we\u2019d been talking to one of them for a while, but while we were rehearsing over the last couple of weeks, the Eighties legend happened to be rehearsing next door to us. He\u2019s getting ready to do a tour, and so we just hit it off. I was like, \u201cWould you want to come do your band\u2019s tune with me?\u201d And of course, he\u2019s an absolute machine, so he was down to do it. And the Disney star just randomly texted me last week\u2014maybe last weekend or something\u2014and he just said, \u201cHey man, I\u2019m coming into town to see you at Coachella, can\u2019t wait to see you Friday.\u201d And I was like, \u201cWell dude, if you\u2019re coming out, would you want to hop up and do something with me?\u201d And he said, \u201cHell yeah.\u201d So we\u2019re going to do something really strong\u2026 I don\u2019t want to give away everything, but\u2026<\/p>\n \n\tGive me a tease.<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tSo I had skipped football practice when I was 15 to go see him perform with my first serious girlfriend at the time. And so, this was \u201cour song\u201d back in 2007 or 2008. It\u2019s a real love song. So we\u2019re doing a real lore hit.<\/p>\n \n\tThis Coachella performance is going to start the new era, right? With your single, \u201cMr. Know-It-All\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tThe way we\u2019re rehearsing, we\u2019re tight, the set\u2019s beautiful. I\u2019m really excited about it.<\/p>\n \n\tWhat\u2019s the vibe for the set?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tHave you ever seen the musical Rent<\/em>? It\u2019s kind of got this \u201cbohemian\u201d vibe. But it also represents when my band and I first started the Teddy Swims project. We all moved into this house together \u2014 there were twelve of us living in this five-bedroom house. It was quite a \u201cjunky\u201d situation. We wanted to reference this home. So it\u2019s a little bit of a junky house where it just looks like a frat party all the time. It\u2019s all kind of messy and nasty, but still like Rent<\/em>, New York Bohemia kind of thing. I think it\u2019s going to be really beautiful.<\/p>\n \n\tWould you say this is the end of the<\/strong> I\u2019ve Tried Everything But Therapy<\/em><\/strong> era?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tYeah, yeah. We finally got through it. I wouldn\u2019t say the music is synonymous with this, but everything we\u2019re trying to go for visually and creatively is leaning back into more roots of metal, punk, and grunge. It touches that space I came from. It\u2019s kind of punk rock, the look of everything is.<\/p>\n \n\tWhat are the biggest lessons you took from the last era?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tI think it served its purpose and brought me so much love and support when it comes to being vulnerable. I was truly growing as a person with so many people\u2026 the biggest learning curve for me was that it gave me the power I needed to feel I wasn\u2019t alone. It gave me some clarity and justification for my feelings. I think the biggest lesson I learned is that the things that feel so specific about your own life end up being more relatable than what you think.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cMr. Know-It-All\u201d has such a different nostalgic, pop vibe. And you made it with Julian Bunetta?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tYeah, he does everything with me. He\u2019s my hero. It\u2019s inspired by the \u201cProphet\u2019s Dilemma.\u201d It basically is: anything you do to prevent something from happening can ultimately become the reason why it happens. But also, if you know it\u2019s going to happen, you don\u2019t give yourself fully to it and don\u2019t do anything, that also becomes the reason it happens. In love, it expresses feeling doomed from the beginning. You try to do anything you can to prevent love from falling apart, but maybe that is the reason why it\u2019s doomed \u2014 because you\u2019re holding on too close. Or you just don\u2019t give enough of yourself because you think it\u2019s doomed, and that\u2019s what dooms it.<\/p>\n \n\tWhy was this the right first song for the new album?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tThere are still more soulful things and more R&B-leaning things on the album. I haven\u2019t completely removed myself from that area of my heart. It felt like a good leap to the other side,\u00a0 something that might be a little more jarring and exciting. Maybe we could do something cute and surprise people with something different. It felt like a departure.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tIs your Coachella set different from the Stagecoach set? You\u2019re the only person doing both this year.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tThis is such a crazy moment for us. The only thing different is we\u2019re hopefully going to have a couple of different guests for Coachella. I haven\u2019t quite gotten the confirmation on those yet, but we\u2019ll see. It\u2019s primarily the same set we\u2019ll be playing, just with a couple of different tunes and a bit of a different feel.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tAre you bringing your son out to the desert?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tYeah, he\u2019s going to love it. He\u2019s going to have a blast. I\u2019m super excited too, because I just bought my \u201clittle man\u201d a big wagon to carry him around. So he\u2019s going to get to go to Coachella and Stagecoach at nine months old. What a lucky little bastard he is, man.<\/p>\n \n\tSome of your collaborators \u2014 Giveon and David Guetta \u2014 are doing Coachella, too. Will we see you come up on other stages this weekend?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tI\u2019m hoping to. We\u2019ll see what happens. I know Giveon\u2019s going to be out there, so either way, we\u2019re going to be hanging out. That\u2019s my baby.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.hollywoodreporter.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Teddy Swims is giddy about his first Coachella set this weekend. 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