Currently gearing up to release her debut album ‘Sweet Delusions’ Eddy Led Ryder has shared the title track, ‘Sweet Delusions’ and we at Backseat Mafia are super excited to share the track the day before its official release. The self-proclaimed “demented pop” chanteuse Ryder fusers country sounds with an indie attitude to craft her own strain of modernist pop, all informed by her distinctively wry sense of humour and classic rock spirit. Something that this track has in spades.
About the track Ryder comments:
“Sweet Delusions” is for anyone holding on for way too long and expecting an unrealistic outcome. This one started about one person and finished about another person, which shows endings can be doomed in so many ways, but the delusional trajectory is all the same. The first lines are “Go easy, woe is me and my broken heart, and don’t take all the credit honey, mine was broken from the start.” It’s like, “Calm down. I’m perfectly capable of messing up my own life, thank you very much. I don’t need you for that as much as you like the power.” I finished the song about someone I had a terrible breakup with, but keeping the humour alive: “I can’t be your ex darling, if I never let you go.”
The line “I got a bottle of prisoner, all I hope is that you feel prisoner to her” is from a good friend of mine who is a very well-known LGBTQIA+ young adult author, Steven Salvatore, who watched me for long stretches of time sleeping on the couch surrounded in bottles of prisoner wine and I think that line perfectly encapsulates that time.
Honey sweet vocals with a 50s influence over huge cinematic backing of romantic sweeping strings statement drums and shimmering guitars. It’s a gorgeous dramatic slice of Americana with Ryder wearing her heart on her sleeve which gives a tender song that’s delicately done even with her powerful vocals.
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