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Teddy Swims Trusts His Gut Because It’s the ‘Only Thing That Has Your Back’

Teddy Swims discussed his breakthrough single 'Lose Control' and trusting his gut backstage at Lollapalooza with Rolling Stone.

Rolling Stone Video As Jaten Dimsdale was starting to chart his course as Teddy Swims, he got some fantastic advice from an old friend: Listen to your gut. Speaking with Rolling Stone ’s Delisa Shannon backstage at Lollapalooza, Swims recalled his friend saying, “If you could tell me one time in your life that your gut has ever been wrong, I’ll shut up.” And Swims, for his part, couldn’t remember a single time when his gut had led him astray. Elsewhere in the interview, Swims spoke about working through the painful relationship experiences that inspired his breakthrough 2023 single, “Lose Control,” and reaching the point as an artist where he felt comfortable being so vulnerable (and also knowing when to hold back).

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