Thomas Rhett on Overcoming the ‘Biggest Battle’ of His Career
Thomas Rhett is one of the most successful country artists of this generation, but it hasn’t been an easy path to get there. During a recent interview with Audacy’s Katie Neal, Rhett opened up about one of his biggest career struggles in solidarity with I’m Listening, Audacy’s mental health initiative.
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00:00I would say one of the biggest battles I've ever been through and this is
00:06just speaking from an artist but I also feel like no matter what you do for a
00:10living or even if you're just a teenager or a kid dealing with anxiety and just
00:15pressure I remember when I put my second album out it was really when I was kind
00:21of venturing into a new space you know what I mean like being very progressive
00:26sonically adding a lot more pop and R&B into my music and it was not received
00:32well by the public looking back it was like one of the biggest records that I
00:36ever made I mean I had die happy man crash and burn and all these songs on
00:39there but I think when you're living in that moment and you're watching people
00:43just bash you you know I mean social media wise I think there's a lot of kids
00:49out there that that don't know what their identity is because they believe
00:54that whatever someone says about them is who they are I think at the end of
00:58the day you've got to go find yourself somehow I don't I don't have for me it's
01:01like being in a quiet place and like getting back to what the truth about me
01:05is that way I've got a better shield when the arrows come going through that
01:11with my wife along with a therapist was so beneficial to kind of get back to the
01:17be like man this is this is just who I am this is the kind of music that I make
01:20this is what brings me joy and I'm sorry that if some people don't like that
01:23that's okay but but I'm doing what what what what fills my cup up the quicker
01:28you can get to that point in your life of just kind of being proud of who you
01:31are and who you were made to be I just think the more joyful your life is going
01:35to be