It's safe to say that Ryan Hurd LOVES Halloween, especially dressing up. He did it as a kid, and still does it as an adult, even when he's the only one willing to dress up.
"My favorite Halloween costume [was a] hockey player as a kid, 'cause my dad used to make us wear rollerblades, so we had to dress up with something that made sense with rollerblades, 'cause we was really intent on us getting as much candy as possible in our neighborhood, so speed was a factor," he recalls in a statement from his label. "I was a hockey player every year growing up, which is cool cause now I’m such a massive hockey fan of the Nashville Predators.
"But as an adult, my favorite costume has been Left Shark, so the dancing shark from Katy Perry’s iconic Super Bowl Halftime Show. And then also one time at a TR [Thomas Rhett] concert, we covered Bruno Mars’s '24K Magic.' We dressed up as 24 magic carrots, and so I still have the carrot costume from that. It was me and Russell Dickerson and Kelsea Ballerini, and it was an excellent time."
But not all of his Halloween costumes have gone over so well.
"Me and my band dressed up as Darth Vader and some Stormtroopers in Wichita, Kansas one year. And so we walked out on stage; no one else in the crowd had dressed up, and we were the openers, so it was extremely awkward. One girl dressed up as a hot dog in the front row, and she was the only one.
"I’ll remember her forever."