With a confident, melismatic delivery and bright vocal tone that complements her playful approach to songwriting, Stacey Ryan's summery R&B-pop deals with love and loneliness. She broke through in 2022 with a viral duet version of her song-in-progress "Don't Text Me When You're Drunk" featuring Zai1k, leading to a deal with Island Records, which quickly offered up a studio version of the social-media duet. Ryan's ebullient debut EP, I Don't Know What Love Is, followed in 2023.