‘Absolutely Starstruck’: Teddy Swims Recounts Collaborating With His ‘Heroes’ The Wiggles

Stadium shows, records acceptable connected the Billboard charts, awards. All of it, nice. But for Teddy Swims, the infinitesimal helium knew he’d truly “made it” was erstwhile helium collaborated with The Wiggles.

No lie. Swims is astatine the back-end of an action-packed circuit of Australia and New Zealand, during which helium performed astatine the NRL Grand Final, delivered a keynote astatine SXSW Sydney, and, yes, performed connected signifier with The Wiggles.

This morning, Swims stopped by Nova 100’s Jase & Lauren for a chat astir the onshore Down Under, his tattoo obsession, and realizing his imagination arsenic an unofficial Wiggle.  

The Wiggles joined Teddy Swims onstage during his performance astatine Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena connected Oct. 15, for a medley of “Rock-A-Bye Your Bear,” “Hot Potato” and “Fruit Salad.”

“Yeah, that was the coolest happening ever,” helium remarks. “So, I reached retired to them years agone erstwhile I archetypal started coming up connected Instagram, due to the fact that they’re truly my heroes increasing up, and ever wanted to collab with them. And truthful I reached retired to them, like, ‘you’re my heroes. I emotion you’.”

Fortune smiled connected Swims arsenic helium met the children’s entertainers backstage connected the Today Show, up of the rugby league finale.

“I met them successful the hallway, and they were like, ‘you privation to play ‘Fruit Salad’ with us?’ And I was like, ‘oh my god!’… I was perfectly starstruck.”

Swims played his cards close and asked The Wiggles to articulation him astatine a show, which they did.

“Oh dude, it was truthful sick,” helium recounts. “We did this full 3 opus medley, and the full set was involved. It was the coolest happening ever. I deliberation it was, like, I adjacent said it afterwards, that was my ‘made it’ infinitesimal for me.”

Swims has immoderate superior runs connected the board. He made past successful July erstwhile “Lose Control” became the archetypal opus successful the past of the Billboard Hot 100 to walk triple-digit weeks connected the chart, arsenic it reached its milestone 100th frame. The adjacent champion is Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves,” which logged 91 weeks connected the tally successful 2021-22.

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