Then I started hearing all this buzz about it when it was getting closer to release, and I was like, ‘I think I might be a part of something really cool here.’”Īnd while the pandemic isn’t something anyone would have wished for, he does see the silver lining. “I shot it on my phone and it only took an hour, and I had no idea who else was going to be in it other than Kevin Porter. While his initial reaction was that he was “kinda busy,” once he realized he could record something on his phone in front of a green screen, he changed his mind. He does a lot of mashups with unexpected characters fighting each other,” Daughtry says. “Aaron called me up one day and was like, ‘Hey, I’m doing this little film.’ I was aware of his work on his YouTube channel. He’s part of a fan-made video “Batman: Dying is Easy,” produced by Aaron and Sean Schoenke and with appearances by actors Michael Madsen, Doug Jones, and Casper Van Dien. Ironically, in the wake of that decision, he’s suddenly found himself going viral, sort of. And when you’re dealing with a major label, there’s always that pressure of needing to turn in hits and needing to cater to a certain format, and I didn’t want to do that anymore.” But I think we both realized that we wanted to part ways and I was better for it,” he said. “I fulfilled my contract and I was very proud of that, and very grateful for all the people that I worked with. “It wasn’t like they dropped me or I was like, ‘Get me out of this place,’” he says. And now I’m terrified to leave again, because I don’t want her to be stuck with it.”Īnother big change has been Daughtry’s amicable split with RCA, his label since he left “Idol.” It just made me so much more compassionate and empathetic to what she has to deal with. It gave me a brand new perspective on all that my wife has to deal with every single day. I started getting into meditation more and listening to a lot of books and podcasts and it forced me to take a much needed pause and really see me for me. “It kind of forced me to be with myself more and analyze a lot of things in my own personal journey that I hadn’t really dealt with, and things with my own ego. “I had a huge identity crisis for a while and I just didn’t realize how much of my identity was wrapped up on the road and in touring and being in front of people and needing that gratification and needing to feel something,” he says.
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And at the same time, I would’ve never had the free space in my brain to even come up with any of these concepts,” he said.ĭaughtry, like every musician, was sidelined from touring due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and that time off the road gave the Lasker, North Carolina native plenty of time to reflect, readjust and find room to create amongst the chaos. “That would’ve never happened if I was juggling making a record on tour. “I’ve got a huge vision for all of this, and it’s all going to make sense one day when the record comes out,” he says. On Thursday, Daughtry gave fans another taste of his still-unnamed forthcoming record today with the release of a new single, “Heavy is the Crown.” The song is the follow up to last year’s hard rocker, “World on Fire,” and Daughtry hints that the two songs are part of a bigger picture once the video he just filmed last week makes its debut. It’s something that I don’t need in my life anymore.’”
“I woke up one morning and thought, ‘I think I’m done with this. “It wasn’t like I had a problem or anything, it was more just a decision,” he says of his sobriety.
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