{"id":578266,"date":"2026-07-10T07:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T07:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/578266\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T07:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T07:29:11","slug":"teddy-swims-reflects-on-heartbreak-on-new-single-break-up-in-reverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/578266\/","title":{"rendered":"Teddy Swims Reflects on Heartbreak on New Single &#8216;Break Up in Reverse&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lovelorn song was inspired by the singer&#8217;s real-life relationship coming to an end<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/teddy-swims\/\" id=\"auto-tag_teddy-swims\" data-tag=\"teddy-swims\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Teddy Swims<\/a> dropped a new single, \u201cBreak Up in Reverse.\u201d The heartbroken anthem, released via Warner Records, sees Swims reflecting on a breakup without regret or resentment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cI wish we could break up in reverse\/ Every night would get better, instead of getting worse,\u201d Swims sings on the track. \u201cI\u2019d watch you slowly lip back into my hands\/ Say goodbye to me in the beginning, and love me in the end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201c\u2018Break Up in Reverse\u2019 really hits home for me right now and where I am in my life,\u201d the singer shared in a statement. \u201cUpon writing this song and my next album, I\u2019ve been going through it with my relationship with my baby\u2019s mother coming to an end. With \u2018Break Up in Reverse\u2019 we were super inspired by an old Nas song called \u2018Rewind.\u2019 We loved how the whole song takes place in reverse. So we thought, how beautiful would it be if we took the same idea but wrote it about my relationship, with the punchline being \u2018Say goodbye to me in the beginning and love me in the end.\u2019 I hope you feel as moved as I do every time I hear and sing this song.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe music video for the track, directed by Lewis Cater, brings the concept to life. The clip opens on Swims standing in front of a pile of rubble. As he sings, a bulldozer moving in reverse reassembles the mess into a room full of meaningful objects: photos, baby toys, puzzle pieces, and kintsugi pottery. <\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cBreak Up in Reverse\u201d follows the release of Swims\u2019 most recent single, \u201cMr. Know It All,\u201d which dropped in April. The singer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/teddy-swims-performance-mr-know-it-all-amas-2026-1235561458\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">performed the song<\/a> at the American Music Awards in May. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tSwims will kick off his Ugly Tour on Sept. 22 in Kansas City. The North American trek is set to wrap up in Los Angeles on Nov. 18.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The lovelorn song was inspired by the singer&#8217;s real-life relationship coming to an end Teddy Swims dropped a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,19,17,337,153549],"class_list":["post-578266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-teddy-swims"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116894509682910455","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}