![]() ![]() Everything I was going through, he had been through as well, and that really helped. Wrabel is one of the artists on ‘Healing Hands,’ and he’s sober himself. They dragged the lyrics and emotions out of me and helped me tell the story. “Jamie Hartman, Stuart Crichton, Wrabel, and the others I cowrote and produced the songs with were absolutely huge backbones behind the album. Instead of me just bottling it up, I had to look at it and ask myself: Why am I constantly thinking about this? Where is this coming from? Writing was therapeutic because it helped me realize so much about myself.” ![]() Writing ‘Love Me Anyway’ and ‘Healing Hands’ was the start of the real, brutal honesty. I was struggling with drinking so much that it became the backbone of the album all I was thinking about was trying not to drink. I wrote ‘Come Clean’ when I was trying to get sober for the girl I was seeing. ![]() “Whether I was using at the time and writing while I was fucked up, or trying to stay off it, it all brought some of these songs around. He talks Apple Music through a few of the ingredients he used to make this album. It just sparked some truth in me and my music.” His debut album, LIFE, is an account of just that: the pain, joy, love, heartbreak, and struggles that Sewell has experienced along his personal journey. So I stopped trying to write that perfect pop song. “I’d go into these sessions and try to write happy pop songs,” he tells Apple Music, “but then I realized that I’m not fucking happy. It’s been far from easy for the Brisbane-born songwriter. Conrad Sewell has been through a lot in the six years since upending his life in Australia and moving to LA to forge his career. ![]()
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