It all began over this summer, when I was randomly invited to a Corrine Bailey Rae (a superstar in the U.K.-- whom I had never heard about) concert by one of my bestest friends at the Bowery Ballroom. Ryan was the opening act.
The crowd was fairly small and needless to say, I was BLOWN AWAY by Ryan's talent-- and lucky enough to get my hands on his CD, "Songs from the eye of an elephant", and also chat with him for a few seconds (really nice guy, by the way...).
So after that night, he ended up making it onto this reality TV show called Rockstar: Supernova, where he finished 6th and gained legions of fans.
Last week was his triumphant return to New York (he's originally from Long Island) and the Bowery Ballroom was PACKED!
I think Ryan's somewhat of an anti-war activist too. He was wearing a green t-shirt that had the words "Where is the love" in backwards letters and he sang a song called "Somebody's Son"-- which was an obvious protest against George W. Bush. And as the sweat got onto his shirt, it kinda looked like he was wearing camoflage. Weird stuff, huh?
His lyrics also really speak to me. Here are the words to one of his songs, "Psycho Suicidal Girl", that pretty accurately reflects my relationship with this girl in college:
Everyone knows, you're wasting my time.
So why don't I ask you to leave?
And if you should go, I want you to know
That everything wasn't for free.
I'll be charging for time, I had you on the line,
We talked about the ills of this world.
Now I'm praying for time, so I could see you die.
You're a psycho suicidal girl.
Brilliant, eh? ;-)
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