Ruel

My friend recently introduced me to a new song called “Younger” by Ruel and I absolutely loved it. I then fell into a rabbit hole on Spotify by listening to one song after the other by that same artist. Overall, I really liked his voice and the type of music he sang. He sang about some pretty emotional topics and that is something that drew me in as well. I was surprised I had not heard of him before because he seemed to be pretty popular. “Younger” had over 44 million listens on Spotify and a lot of his other songs had millions of streams as well.

At this point, I was curious about who this guy was, so I looked him up on google to find out more about him. Turns out Ruel is from Australia and just recently came into the music industry in 2018. But the reason I decided to write a whole blog post about this guy is because one thing especially stood out to me. His birthday is on October 29… 2002. That makes him younger than me. Here I was thinking that this was a GROWN man but nope, he is just around our age. I didn’t really look at the album cover so I had no idea what he looked like and if you were to just listen without knowing his age, you would not immediately assume he is that young. It’s crazy to think that someone who is the same age as us or even younger, is already a successful music artist. I mean there are other teenage boys like Jacob Sartorius and MattBRaps who are probably more famous and about the same age, but the difference is that you can tell they are just kids and their audience is for little kids as well. I personally prefer Ruel’s music over those guys because he sounds a lot more mature and it’s music I could actually imagine on today’s radio. I hope he gains more popularity because I think he deserves it.