.CodySimpson’s journey to independence & his newfound ability to cross over mediums has been a long time coming. Now, he has learned how to be confident enough to give them a try
Brenton Blanchet‘Once the screaming 13-year-old girls aren’t necessarily there anymore, it’s like, are you a musician or are you not? Can you stack up or can’t you?’
Before our window-side coffee chat at Neighbors about his musical journey, Simpson finished record shopping with friends at New York’s Village Music World. He boasts his finds: Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, The Rolling Stones, and a few other names his father, Brad Simpson, put him on while he was growing up.
The ‘guy,’ Shawn Campbell, asked Simpson to join him in the U.S. and visit music executives in New York City. It took a few months before Simpson and his family seriously considered it an option, or even believed it. “My parents were 100% like, ‘This is a pedophile, no doubt,’” Simpson now laughs. “At first, we kind of just dismissed it because we didn’t see it as anything that would be possible.”
“At that point, I don’t think I really developed my identity enough as an artist to have any kind of real say in what was going on,” he explains. And I think that’s the case with many artists who get thrust into fame before they’re really developed.” His entrance into adulthood came with the formation of his independent label, Coast House Records in 2015. And his first steps into a more authentic acoustic sound came with JBXCS, Simpson’s eventually cancelled joint project with world-tour costar Bieber. Lead single “” earned the singer new fans as he played a sultry guitar riff over Bieber’s vocals, but the full project never came to fruition. Still, Bieber was one of the first people to tell Simpson he belonged as a guitarist.
Simpson found his musical worlds colliding. Bieber, who Simpson was compared to as a fresh-faced pop star and Mayer, who Simpson idolized as he worked toward independence, both applauded his new journey. And from there, cameSimpson put out the project -- his first-ever independent record -- in 2015, following the release of lead single “Flower” earlier in the year, which featured cover art doodled by Cyrus.
It didn’t quite match the success of Simpson’s previous pop work, peaking at No. 128 on the Billboard 200, but that wasn’t what Simpson was after. In fact, it served as a “pivot” in his career, marking his first chapter as a storyteller and touching on topics that -- for the first time -- really resonated with Simpson: “Wilderness” showed Simpson advocating for the planet. “Livin’ Easy” was Simpson’s first self-written easy-living anthem.
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