
Riley Green | Superstar Power Hour
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About this listen
This week during the 'Superstar Power Hour,' Riley Green revealed that he has some new music in the works, but perhaps for fans more importantly, he's heard your concern over his mustache and it's back for now.
"I thought people might mention it," smiles Riley about the reaction to him shaving his mustache earlier this year, having no idea it would make the kind of news it made. "It was nice that day I walked in the bar and nobody knew who I was, like I was about 14 when I shaved it off."
"So I shave every year just to get a little sun on my face," Green explains to Katie Neal. "It just feels nice for a little change, and I didn't realize that I'm like 'mustache guy' now. So people expect a certain level of mustache from me, and when I shaved it really, it hurt some people's feelings."
With his stache secured, the talk turns to Riley's latest song to climb the charts, "Worst Way," from his album 'Don't Mind If I Do.' "I don't tend to write a lot of love songs," he says of the album closer. "I'm always kind of the ballady like, 'I Wish Grandpas Never died,' more sad song guy. You know, people don't wanna just cry the whole concert, I thought I should kind of try something else."
"'Worst Way' ended up being a really forward love song, and when you write songs like that by yourself, you're not bouncing ideas off anybody. So when you get done with it, you're like, 'wait, is this OK?'"
"It was a little outside of my comfort zone, and when I got done with it, I thought there was something cool about it. I think I like most songs I played a little bit of it and posted it on Facebook or Instagram or something, and it blew up. That's how you know when fans kind of let you know you have something and, I think it went platinum before we even sent to radio it was just this huge song. So when fans go and make a song hit like that, it's always so much fun. You kind of sit back and just enjoy playing it, and it's become one of the biggest moments in my live show."
To hear more about the "Worst Way" video, new music, and more, check out the full interview with Riley Green above.