Sorry to have to break this news to you, ladies.
Riley Green stopped by Theo Von’s This Past Weekend podcast this week, where he opened up about his dating life, which is always a hot topic in the world of country music, and named all of the places he doesn’t think he’ll meet a girl on Instagram, or at a show, and he said straight up he wouldn’t date a fan (sorry girls):
“I feel like you know better than that because you’re in that world too. It’s really not that easy to meet a girl when you’re doing what we’re doing. I mean, I’m not going to meet a girl at a show, I’m confined to the back on a bus and I’m not going to meet a girl on Instagram.
And when you get to a place where people are, it gets tough to know who you’re meeting for what.”
I’m not sure I believe him that it’s hard to meet girls, but I get that he’s probably not meeting girls with incredibly pure intentions a lot of the time, and he admitted that he simply doesn’t have the time for a real relationship right now.
He explained that he hardly spends more than two or three days in one place right, and his lifestyle is simply not conducive to have a successful and committed relationship:
“No. Not the way now it is now. It’s gonna have to change in the sense of like, well you talked about you coming off tour and not know what to do with yourself, I’ve got to get to that point. I would love to try to get bored of being at home. I can’t remember the last time I had a week off, you know. I mean, maybe around Christmas.
But I played shows until December 27th last year. And right now, I could go take a month off, I could, but I just can’t with everything going on and the opportunities I’ve got, I can’t make myself do it. So I’m sort of like, grind right now, keep my nose down, say yes to everything and then in a couple years things will stop doing this and they’ll kind of plain off and I’ll have this career.
And I’ll say, alright, I’m gonna play 40 or 60 shows a year. I might film a little TV show or movie or whatever, and then I can have a life outside of it. But it’s just tough to do right now.”
Theo and Riley also talked about how going out in public can be hard not because they don’t like meeting fans, but because it can quickly get out of hand and cause a scene.
Of course, they’re both used to being on stage all the time, But Riley says he gets “uncomfortable” and “anxious” if he causes a scene in a place like a restaurant:
“I don’t mind being the center of attention at a show or if I’m in a town, I’m playing a show and I go to a restaurant or a bar down the street, but I don’t like being the center of attention when I’m not supposed to. That always makes me feel odd.
I don’t like to feel like if I went to another show and people were asking me for a picture and there was somebody else on stage, that would make me feel really, really rude.”
In terms of not only dating, but just slowing down in general, Riley is focused on his career, and emphasized how much he feels like he can’t say no to some of the huge opportunities that are coming his way as his career is exploding, like getting his upcoming gig on The Voice, for example, where he will join this season as a judge.
Surely at some point, he’ll get to slow down and spend more time at home, but you can’t blame him for taking advantage of everything coming his way because he’s certainly earned it.
The full episode is available below.