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64 visit stack.com.au Dean Lewis photographed by Kent Tarver 4 WM et ie lot of things, but the one thing | keep UU ESOT MALU Ua DEAN LEWIS Dean Lewis's ill-fated relationship with a particular girl informed the bulk of the now Nashville-based artist's sophomore album, but it's all the lessons and observations between the knots of that liaison which make The Hardest Love such a compelling listen. Words Zoé Radas say?’', or ‘Is this embarrassing to say?' - then | remember el that vulnerability, and my genuine, authentic feelings. if | write those down as simply as | can, it will help [listeners] process whatever they're going through. With a song like How Do | Say Goodbye, it's easier to talk about because my dad is in remission. But when | play it live on stage, | do get emotional, because it's intense... but it also | released a song very early on - which | had this fear of releasing, and of what people would say ~ called Half a Man, from my first album. And | remember when | started playing the song, people would cry, or feel so deeply that they would tell me about how much it impacted them, and how much it moved them, and how much it helped them The Hardest Love by Dean Lewis is out Nov 4 via Island 9 | live for writing the best songs that | can write. | want the songs to be successful, [but] the difference [now] is I'm not desperate for it Now, | think | was on my first album: | moved in with my grandma five years earlier, to save money and give this thing a crack. And so | knew what the other side of life was like for me, so | felt like | needed to have a song that was big, to get myself out of that situation But it's also my passion, and life purpose. My purpose in life, | feel, is to become great at something. | want to be really good at one thing in my life. And I'm bad at a lot of things! But | feel like one thing that | keep improving on is songwriting, songwriting, songwriting I'm always completely surprised at every song that connects on a on a bigger level. It's so rare, and almost impossible to do. It's like lightning striking. And I've had it once and if | have it a second time, that's enough, but I'm still at this point. I'm still thinking about the second time. | did not even know it was in a 6/8 time signature, | have no idea what I'm doing as | do this! This song was written the day after | wrote Be Alright, and | forgot about it. It was a song that my brother kept telling me that | needed to revisit. And | did revisit it, five years later. It was originally on piano, and in a different key. The chorus used to go down so the verses were higher, and | flipped that because | just thought, 'I think I've learned a few more things over the years.' And | ended up coming up with this great guitar riff, I'm so proud of [it]... there's tension in it, where it's building and building. It's this relentless, beautiful riff over and over again... @ process something. So now when | have that same feeling — it's almost like a cringing feeling; | think, 'What are people going to becomes quite a joyous, uplifting feeling, with everyone singing along. It's like having a good cry. jbhifi.com.au JBHEFI
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