The track acts as a sort of effortless confessional to one’s parents about doing drugs – but “ not hard ones just ones that change my mind up,” as Verdes so radiantly sings in the chorus. Tai Verdes © Amy Le Released in October, the buoyant, groovy “DRUGS” followed as a sweet, effervescent, and fun song with considerable… substance. As long as I feel good about the whole thing, I’m all in.” The upbeat “Stuck in the Middle” introduced the artist as a heart-on-sleeve storytelling singer/songwriter ready to share himself with the world. “I don’t care what producer I’m working with or their style. “I just do what feels good,” he explains. Blending R&B, pop, blues, rock, and more influences into a pool of compelling and genreless music, Verdes gives his all to make his art authentic and sincere to him. ![]() ![]() Hailing from Los Angeles and now signed to major label Arista Records, 24-year-old Tai Verdes has made a big splash in the music scene over the past eleven months his debut breakout single “Stuck in the Middle” hit #1 on Spotify’s US viral chart, and has garnered over 60 million global streams, more than 2.3 million TikTok video creations, and over 1 billion TikTok views. Today, refreshing alt-R&B singer/songwriter Tai Verdes dives into his first three singles “Stuck in the Middle,” “DRUGS,” and “BAD BAD News” as a part of Atwood Magazine‘s Black History Month series. He captioned the post, “if this gets 1,000 likes I’ll put it out ” he ended up with more than 60,000 likes.Young K x PARKMOONCHI & Jun. When he sat in his car, the same one where he practiced his scales, and teased “Stuck in the Middle,” his view count shot up past 300,000. He was already attempting to use TikTok as a promotional tool - promising to send money to influencers who made videos with the Tylersemicolon song “Skin Routine”- before he wrote “Stuck in the Middle.” But most of Verdes’ TikTok clips only amassed a few hundred or a few thousand views. Verdes wrote the top line in roughly an hour and a half, piecing together a collage of phrases pulled “verbatim from things girls have said to me.” The opening salvo - “She said, ‘you’re a player aren’t you? And I bet you got hoes” - “might as well be stamped on my fucking forehead,” Verdes continues. One of these YouTube rabbit holes led him to the lolling, bass-forward instrumental for “Stuck in the Middle,” which had less than 2,000 plays at the time. at the third level of deep, dark YouTube to find people that don’t have enough subscribers ,” Verdes this gets 1000 likes I’ll put this song out. He held down a job five days a week with Verizon and spent late nights scouring YouTube for beats. “Everyone should do that if your shit is not popping. If at first you don’t succeed, “change your name, maybe get a fucking haircut, try it again,” he says. Now that Verdes is on the rise, he’s using the story of his own breakthrough to urge on other aspiring artists. ![]() The song recently passed two million streams on Spotify, an accomplishment that Verdes celebrated with a TikTok video set at the Verizon store where he still works. The winner was “Stuck in the Middle,” a charmingly scruffy single about romantic limbo that established a residency in the upper reaches of the Spotify Viral 50 on July 4 and has been hovering there ever since. I just played a bunch of lottery tickets.” “If you’re an artist and you’re not on TikTok, you don’t want it bad enough,” Verdes continues. ![]() “Some people think they’re too good for the platform, don’t want to disgrace their art - ‘this is the song, only play it on Spotify,'” says Tai Verdes, a 24-year-old, 6’7″ singer-songwriter who once hoped to play in the NBA. TikTok has been downloaded over two billion times, but some artists still remain wary of the app, uncomfortable with its reputation as an engine for dance crazes.
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