Teddy Swims catches up with Billboard at Stagecoach to talk about his rise from early interviews to Hot 100 success, Grammy nominations, fatherhood and what keeps him grounded. He opens up about his journey, the lessons he learned from timing, his bond with fans and the new music he’s working on.
He also shares stories about Jelly Roll, Lainey Wilson and Meghan Trainor, his love for Otis Redding and more!
Fans: Hey, Teddy!
Teddy Swims: Hey, brothers. What’s up, dudes? I paid them to say that so I’d look cool on my interview. For the record. Tetris, I hope you’re dressed. Well, I actually hope you’re not.
Tetris Kelly: Teddy Swims, brother. What’s up?
How are you doing?
Thanks for coming to the-
Love your shirt.
Oh, no. Just for you. I only do it for the cool people.
That’s cool.
The people in my fandom, you know what I mean?
You know what I mean?
Well, thanks for hanging out in the desert with me.
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
We gonna kick it today? For real, kick it though?
Yeah, absolutely.
All right, let’s do it, bro.
Do whatever you want, man.
Fan 1: We’re pumped. So excited.
Fan 2: The audience just falls in love with him.
Fan 3: He’s got great songwriting.
Fan 4: For country music fans, I think that makes a lot of difference. That’s Teddy Swims.
So, Teddy, my man, we’ve been, we’ve known each other quite some time.
Yeah, a really long time now.
So I wanna talk about your journey, but we gotta start by going down memory lane.
OK.
I wanna see if you’re even gonna recognize any of this.
OK. Nuh-uh! Like, stop it. Man, we look like babies. That’s so crazy.
Little children. This was 2021.
It looks, uh, it’s so weird ’cause I feel like I’m done growing, but I look such, like, a little kid. We both look like little kids right there.
Yeah.
It looks like we go so far back.
We were just, like, at happy hour getting to know each other.
Yeah. Uh, we are at happy hour.
And, like, you have been a long way since happy hour, my friend.
Oh, my god.
Like, such a long way.
And still stuck there, too.
We’re still kind of at happy- I think me and you are just permanently at happy hour. That’s our vibe.
The happiest one. And what else you got? OK.
And this one was actually the first time I ever officially interviewed you.
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