Ria Jade is an award-winning sultry, soulful musician from Vancouver that takes influences from R&B, pop, rock, and blues and blends them into a tasteful twist. Her hot new release “Good Bad Decisions” is high-energy, emotionally-rich, passionate pop-rock at its absolute best, with a touch of raunchy-revenge-country-crossover reminiscent of Carrie Underwood’s chart-topping hit “Before He Cheats.”
Her voice in fine form, Ria serenades us about the heartbreak of a recent split and the desire to give her ex a taste of his own medicine. With its riveting rhythmic beat, masterful melody, driving guitar riffs and catchy chorus, its intoxicating hook will have you playing it over and over again. Consistent with Ria’s past releases, the song’s lyrics are highly relatable…anyone who has ridden the roller coaster of a romantic relationship can empathize. Although she knows it may be a bad decision, it feels good and much too satisfying to stop:
Maybe now it’s time for good bad decisions
Show you what you’ve been missing
I’m gonna make you cry, cry, cry
With unshaken confidence, Ria makes it clear that she is done being taken for granted and is ready to make her ex regret what he’s done:
Not the type with devilish desires,
But show me gasoline
And I’ll show you how to build up a fire
Oh well, if you’re done, so am I
Done with being played like a piano in the night
And haven’t we all felt this way at one time or another?
But now we bathe in regret,
And we speak in silence
With volumes left to be said
The change in melody and tempo, backed by the standout staccato guitar riff during the following refrain is especially innovative and memorable:
I’m gonna make you cry babe, mm
Tell you pretty lies, babe, hoo
The song then builds back up to its powerful ending:
Maybe now it’s time for good bad decisions
Show you what you’ve been missing
I’m gonna make you cry, cry, cry
Make you wish that you were mine, mine, mine
Maybe now it’s time to finish what we started
Show you how it feels being broken hearted
I’m gonna tell you lies, lies, lies
Make you wanna turn back time, time
For good bad decisions
As we used to say in the days of old-time radio, “Good Bad Decisions” deserves to chart at number one with a bullet and played on heavy rotation. Ria continues to set the quality bar higher and higher with each new release and remains one of Vancouver’s most accomplished musicians.
*(Review written by Lisa Wartur, the CEO & Publicist at NoodleHead Productions PR. Her music industry experience includes several years with CBS Records/Sony Music in the 1980’s).
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