I just remember hearing, ‘I I I I, I’m so in loooove…” “I was asking my cousin, ‘Who’s Al Green? Why are you guys so excited?’ They’re a bunch of fourth graders, they shouldn’t have known, understood or been excited to hear Al Green. But I remember she would always tell us if we came back from recess, shut up and did our work, she would put on the greatest hits of Al Green. She was a sergeant in the Army and really strict.
“She was a really sweet lady, but also mean as hell. After finessing things, the two ended up in a classroom together with a teacher who would change his life.
After his parents divorced, Swims was angling to live with his dad so he could attend fourth grade alongside his cousin. Singing in church is the obvious ingredient in Swims’ musical background, but the other source of inspiration is far less common. There’s something about the conviction that’s powerful.” It’s making that person feel and believe. That voice… it isn’t about singing, the performance you’re trying to give is for that person. “There are no better musicians in the world than musicians who start out at church. “All of our band is very into gospel and grew up playing in church,” Swims says. While he would later gravitate more toward soul, R&B and rap, the music he found in church always stayed close to his heart. His grandfather was Pentecostal preacher, so gospel music influenced him from the start. Then when you ruined it together, you still got each other.”įor his entire life, Swims has been surrounded by interesting people who had an enormous effect on his musical taste. If you don’t have your family with you to enjoy it, at least blow it and fuck it up together. Ultimately if we make the wrong decisions now… you only get one shot at this. “Most importantly, the song talks about the comradery of spending it together,” Swims says of his sudden largesse, “knowing it’s not going to last forever.
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While the video for “Broke” plays to his childhood fantasies about how to spend the money-who doesn’t want their own ice cream truck?-the real-life Swims has his priorities straight. How could he not be experiencing some sort of culture shock when the recording process goes from finding time when the whole band can get together between jobs to hanging out in the Hollywood Hills for a month putting together an album? Swims is getting his first taste of how things are when you’re signed to a major label. “They had to break it down and be like, ‘It is important because this is the way we get the word out, make you bigger and make the change that you want to change, to be what you want to be.” “They told me, it’s in the label budget, they’ll take care of it,” Swims continues. That’s my little brother’s college tuition coming up this year, I can’t spend that kind of money on an AirBnB. “No, absolutely we’re not going to spend that kind of money, I refuse to spend that kind of money. “I broke down at the time because I was so angry,” Swims recalls.
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