![]() ![]() “I was a little apprehensive even writing love songs around that time, just out of fear that the community I was in wouldn’t accept the more secular route that I was going. “When you look at my first album, I was still in the Christian bubble,” he admits now. He has previously described his Christian faith as salvation – “I had little hope and couldn’t see a road out of my reality,” he once said of his dishwashing days pre-fame, “the only thing I could cling to in the midst of all that was my faith in God” – but the fear of offending his fellow congregants was creatively stifling. ‘I had a hard time doing the relationship thing’. With Magnolias, Bridges offers a thumping spin on late-90s and early-00s R&B, his lyrics dripping with carnality. Lead single Motorbike, however, is a tender, sensual ballad that coasts on ethereal guitar, Bridges’ honeyed vocals shining. On Why Don’t You Touch Me, its music walking a forlorn line across country and contemporary R&B, Bridges agonises over a lack of physical touch that seems to foreshadow the end of a relationship. ![]() Every song seems to answer critics who claimed his early work lacked originality and suffered from emotional naivety. He slept in the hotel, drank and socialised at the bar, and composed Gold-Diggers Sound in these studios.Ī remarkable and progressive R&B album, Gold-Diggers Sound has the most eclectic compositions of Bridges’ career, as well as his most emotionally transparent songwriting. And for several months in 2019, this was home. Although Bridges plans to remain in Fort Worth, his body language suggests he feels at home here in California. When he picks up an acoustic guitar, however, he becomes talkative and relaxed, lightly plucking the strings between words. Blue Mesas was that feeling of loneliness even in the midst of people that love me.”Īt the beginning of our conversation, Bridges struggles to answer questions at length, having just done several telephone interviews. And then, as someone with insecurities about my physical appearance, being thrown in the limelight, and having to deal with that. “Number one, losing my anonymity in my home town was tough. Initially, it was rough for me,” he says. “There’s a solitude and weight that comes with gaining a little bit of success and notoriety. Initially, it was rough for meīlue Mesas, the song that closes his new album, Gold-Diggers Sound, reflects on that period over sombre violin. I would randomly just burst out in tears in front of my friends, and I’m grateful helped me work through it.” There's a solitude and weight that comes with gaining success. “This was just an accumulation of all of these feelings – feeling like I don’t deserve to be here or I’m not handsome enough or a good enough singer. Though Bridges is generally in a “healthy mental space today”, there was a period between Coming Home and his second album, Good Thing, released in 2018, when the speed of his success led to depression. My transition was dishwasher one day and being somewhat of a star. He is best known for his 2015 song "Coming Home", which received regular airplay and was also a Top 10 Most Viral Track on Spotify.More accolades were to come, but Bridges says he’s spent much of his six-year career “coming to grips with my reality. ![]() Todd Michael "Leon" Bridges is an American soul singer, songwriter and record producer. When it feels good you don’t have to try to, to You’re hotter than a desert, don’t mean no pressure Girl, go ahead and leave ya keys on the dresser It’s whatever you like, we can ride, ride, ride On the back of my motorbike write your name in the sky ooh On the back of my motorbike, switch lanes 29 ooh I know you’re all that I wanted since I met ya When it feels good you don’t have to try toĪnd if you say so, if you say so, then let’s go Lovers in another life, let me remind you ![]()
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