{"id":749030,"date":"2026-10-15T19:56:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ryan-beatty-on-capturing-joy-with-sweet-fortune-arms-over-armor-tour\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T19:56:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:56:20","slug":"ryan-beatty-on-capturing-joy-with-sweet-fortune-arms-over-armor-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ryan-beatty-on-capturing-joy-with-sweet-fortune-arms-over-armor-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Beatty On Capturing Joy With \u2018Sweet Fortune,\u2019 Arms Over Armor Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tJust a few weeks ago, Ryan Beatty had the best music recital of his life.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 31-year-old was at L.A.\u2019s Greek Theatre, playing a headlining set on his Arms over Armor Tour before a crowd of over 5,000, a major full-circle moment taking to the iconic venue for the biggest hometown show he\u2019s played to date.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThat\u2019s what I was saying on stage, it\u2019s like a recital,\u201d Beatty says over the phone, calling in from Texas on his off day between show dates. \u201cI\u2019m in a suit, all my friends and family were there. The crowd was insane, it was so inspiring. It made me fall in love with performing again in some ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Greek was a markedly larger show than his last L.A. gig a couple months prior \u2014 an underplay at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery \u2014 where he was showcasing some of the highlights from his latest album Sweet Fortune, <\/em>his gorgeous pop-meets-folk-meets R&B record capturing the jubilance and warmth of a relationship.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s an about-face from 2023\u2019s Calico, <\/em>itself about a breakup. Like many songwriters who\u2019ve ever poured their romantic sorrows out in their music, the challenge in this new era was getting acquainted with writing from a place of happ<\/a>iness instead, which can be a source of anxiety itself.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think when you\u2019ve been living in the same state of longing, hoping and wanting and facing heartbreak, when something positive happens, it\u2019s almost more uncomfortable than the feeling you\u2019d been used to,\u201d he says. \u201cWhen I felt like I was in something good and beautiful, I wanted to protect it, I was afraid to write about it because I hadn\u2019t done that before. And ultimately, I wanted to make sure I was honoring it in a way that I could stand by.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBeatty, whose collaborators on the album include Clairo and longtime producer collaborator Ethan Gruska, says he was looking to \u201cspeak romantically in a sonic way\u201d with his latest. Perhaps most fitting for an album about blooming love, flowers are one of Sweet Fortune\u2019s <\/em>more notable motifs, whether it\u2019s on the first song \u201cPhantom,\u201d where Beatty\u2019s subject \u201cparodies the spring and wilts away,\u201d or on the final track \u201cFleur De Lis,\u201d as Beatty croons about how a couple will \u201cbloom together or wither alone,\u201d finishing the chorus as he sings \u201cI\u2019ll throw seeds and reap what I sow \/ \u2018cause in the dirt, all my flowers will grow.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think it reflects on how sensitive a garden can be, and anything beautiful you have to tend to to keep it alive, whether that\u2019s a relationship or something else you believe in,\u201d Beatty says. \u201cI think with \u2018Fleur De Lis,\u2019 I think I closed out the album in a really beautiful way. Ultimately it\u2019s saying I have to tend to the things that maybe are hard to face or take a risk on. And that\u2019s the message I wanted to leave the listener with.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBeatty grew up in the suburbs of Fresno and moved down to Los Angeles as a teenager to pursue his musical career. First gaining prominence with covers on YouTube<\/a>, he\u2019d begun to build momentum on the radio disney circuit, marketed as a more traditional young teen pop star and inspiring comparisons as the sort of next Justin Bieber. But by 2013 at age 18, he left that path behind, and legal skirmishes with his old management and record label kept him from releasing music until 2016.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe would find his own way, and the following years would prove much more artistically fruitful than what is often available for a young artist in the mainstream pop machine. He became a frequent collaborator with rap collective Brockhampton, provided backing vocals on Tyler, the Creator\u2019s Grammy-winning Igor <\/em>and co-wrote four songs on Beyonce\u2019s Cowboy Carter, <\/em>including fan favorite \u201cBodyguard.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe\u2019s dropped four solo albums, starting with his lauded self-released Boy in Jeans <\/em>in 2018, followed by 2020\u2019s Dreaming of David, <\/em>then Calico <\/em>and now Sweet Fortune.<\/em><\/p>\n

\n\tHis work as a songwriter won him a Grammy for album of the year with Cowboy Carter, <\/em>though Beatty himself calls writing for other artists \u201ca happy accident,\u201d adding that while he isn\u2019t opposed to taking more sessions writing for himself \u201cis the thing I\u2019ll do for the rest of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s definitely a different muscle, but it shares the same sentiment, which is that I have to feel completely connected to it, and when you\u2019re writing for someone else, you have to have the realization that you are not ever going to fully know their perspective, you can\u2019t be fully in their head. [Writing for other artists] is nice because it lets you take a break from being totally in your head about yourself and lets you try things you might not try for yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBeatty is 20 shows into the Arms Over Armor tour and has just over a dozen shows left for the year, including a sold-out New York gig at Brooklyn Paramount on Saturday. More than halfway through, Beatty says the focus has been keeping the concerts fresh, experimenting with melodies on songs and leaning into the live dynamic.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think the love songs really connect live,\u201d Beatty says. \u201cLooking out into the crowd and seeing couples holding each other as they\u2019re listening to \u2018Sweet Fortune\u2019 or \u2018Too Many Ways,\u2019 there\u2019s so much sweetness in the room.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe\u2019ll finally get some reprieve next month after wrapping a 10-date run across Europe and the U.K. in London on November 7. It\u2019s too early for Beatty to give any hard commitments for what comes after that. For now, Beatty says, \u201cI just have to take it one day at a time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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