Lexi Sidders Channels Her Past Pain Into An Uplifting Anti-Bullying Anthem ‘Better Off (A Loser)’

It’s hard to deliberation that Lexi Sidders‘ “Better Off (A Loser)” came from a achy infinitesimal successful her beingness since it starts with an undeniable groove that volition get your caput nodding along. Yet, successful her debut azygous – premiering present connected HollywoodLife – Lexi transforms the acheronian into light. “Better Off” is simply a arrogant declaration that sees Lexi done with the “overthinking / over-drinking / and hunt for who I am.” Instead, she enjoys “doing what I privation to do” and “being who I wanna be,” ditching society’s pressures and standards by the broadside of the road. It’s a phenomenal bop of a song, 1 that volition animate chap “losers” to bask the tegument they’re in.

“[‘Better Off’] is based connected a taxable adjacent and beloved to my heart, bullying,” Lexi shares with HollywoodLife. “Hearing that connection makes maine deliberation of simple schoolhouse and the classical name-calling connected the playground. Yes, that is simply a signifier of bullying, but it tin beryllium overmuch more. For me, it showcased itself successful precocious school. Before precocious school, I was a blessed kid, but determination was one’ problem’ with me. I was overweight, and unfortunately, I was bullied due to the fact that of it.”

After dealing with specified pressures and schoolyard taunts, Lexi says she recovered her satellite “flipped upside down,” and she spent astir of her clip “scrolling done Instagram and Youtube, feeling arsenic if I needed to beryllium bladed and beauteous to get my peers’ approval.” Sadly, this led to her processing an eating disorder, and she was besides diagnosed with depression. “Not lone was I frightened of food, but my intelligence wellness was unstable, and I couldn’t adjacent admit myself,” she tells HollywoodLife. “After a fewer years of putting up this facade of being ‘perfect,’ I couldn’t bash it anymore. That’s erstwhile I decided to halt the vicious rhythm and commencement living.”

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“I judge that euphony and penning songs saved me,” she adds. “At first, I hated that I had to spell done years of this, but successful the end, I came retired a caller idiosyncratic who learned a batch and became wiser! To me, the cardinal is to clasp who you are; clasp being that loser! You’ll recognize heavy down wrong that you’re amended disconnected without the ‘in crowd.’ I wrote this opus to promote others and amusement that you’re amended disconnected being different, lasting out, and, astir importantly, being a loser.”

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This poignant connection marks a almighty archetypal content from this young rising talent. Hailing from Templeton, California, Lexi archetypal caught the spotlight when, astatine property 19, she placed successful the MyCollabStreet Singing Contest. Her occurrence continued with different competition, resulting successful Keith Urban invited her to sing astatine his show. Not 1 to crook down a motion similar that, Lexi relocated to Nashville to prosecute her state euphony dreams. Since moving to Music City, she’s divided her clip co-writing tracks with apical songwriters similar Rob Pennington (Luke Combs, Chris Janson) and Michael Woodrum (Eric Clapton, Joss Stone) and performing.

At 22 years old, she’s already shared the signifier with specified luminaries arsenic Russell Dickerson, Cheat Codes, Brandi Cyrus, MacKenzie Porter, and Lindsay Ell. Expect that database to turn arsenic she continues her rise, proving that adjacent “losers” crook retired bully successful the end.