Riley Green is undoubtedly one of the hottest stars in the country music genre. He not only has an amazing recording and performing career going, but he also is making a really solid name for himself as an actor. (If you saw him guest-starring on Marshals, you already know that!) Plus, Green is now a coach on The Voice as well. Sometimes the stories behind the success and the triumphs are as equally compelling as the successes and triumphs themselves. For example, Riley Green recently dished about why he was slightly reluctant to release one of his highly popular songs.
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Green Had a Few Doubts About "Worst Way"
If any song defined Riley Green as a smooth country crooner with a super romantic side, it was "Worst Way." The sensuous (some might say racy) tune made a pretty big splash. So did the video. It was a bit of a switch for the singer and he wasn't quite comfortable with it. Green shared with Pat McAfee on Spotify that he harbored some uneasiness about its content.
He said, "Every record, I want to try to push myself musically a little bit into something that I'm not necessarily comfortable with. My last record, it was 'Worst Way.' I hadn't really written a love song and that was a little forward."
Furthermore,, Green added, "And I remember writing it and I thought, man, is this okay? Is it going to work? It became a big song for me. So musically, I tried to do some things that were a little out of my comfort zone on this record."
His Next LP Drops on Friday, September 18
Riley Green has some much-anticipated new music in the pipeline. His new studio album, That's Just Me, is out in a few days. While sticking to familiar themes, he also seems to like flexing himself artistically. Green told Pat McAfee, "Every year that things are going well and it grows and things get bigger, I always tend to make sure I find a way to write from that same place that got me here. Which is just small town Alabama where I grew up."
He clarified, "So I always try to go home and write, at least four or five songs that are going to be on every record from that mindset of just how I grew up and my family values, like I said, things I wrote about from the beginning."
