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Teddy Swims on His Breakout Hit ‘Lose Control’ and Steady Rise to the Top: ‘Now I’m So Hungry For More’
Singer Teddy Swims discusses his breakout hit 'Lose Control' and the long road he took to get to this point.
It’s been a journey speckled with buzzworthy moments and notable co-signs, but things finally clicked for the tattooed soul singer from Conyers, Georgia when “Lose Control”—a bluesy love song with a herculean run—caught fire, becoming one of 2024’s breakout hits. Penned during a four-day writing camp in Palm Springs, the session looms large for Swims, who worked on the track with Julian Bunetta, Ammo, Infamous and Mikky Ekko. So, they set out to write their own future karaoke go-to, a song “catchy enough for everyone to want to sing, but not everyone can.” Bunetta and Ekko crafted the first two verses and then Swims stepped into the booth to pull the vocal trigger.
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