The track hits deep on so many levels. From its relatable lyrics, light guitar melodies, and Ryan’s achingly cool Post Malone-esque vocal delivery.

Its opens with warm, inviting guitar lines and crisp, minimalistic beats, and it floats into your perspective like a pleasant fragrance. Ryan launches into his soulful tirade, raw and conversational. His voice oscillates between mid-high notes, expressing a masked insecurity underneath all the cool things he shows up with.

Lyrically, Ryan delves into themes of identity and authenticity, sharing how difficult it is these days to be oneself and hide one’s pain behind materialistic pursuits, with validation seeming to be the norm. The track title, ‘cool car but i’m the broken one’ is a sarcastic reference to how the first thing people see are your material possessions, and rarely do they take the time and energy to get to know the person behind the wheel. ‘No one gonna want for something I don’t have’ expresses a crushing truth of the prevailing mindsets today. The only thing people are concerned with is what’s on the outside.

Ryan’s smartly crafted soundscape is an inviting mix of alt-pop and rap, with honest, vulnerable lyrics. Its a track that feels universally relatable and one you’d listen to on long drives, reflecting on the way things are.

This is less of a performance and more of an honest, bare-it-all confessional. Ryan invites us to lean in, listen, and remember the things that actually matter. To stop focusing on the glittery stuff and actually connect with the humanity within us all.