blogtober: day eleven

  

 

Hello darling followers friends!

 

Today's prompt is to rant about whatever you want to. That means I will be telling you all about my favorite band, R5. I could talk about them for forever, so get your popcorn ready!

 

 

 

 

My obsession started in June of last year.

 

 It was my BFF, Anna's, birthday party sleepover. Before the party she said that we would be watching "Teen Beach Movie". She said that it was pretty good, and that it had a blonde guy in it that she thought I would like. A couple seconds into the movie and my friend, Hannah, and I were already talking of what we thought of "The Blonde Guy". By the end of the movie I was like "I got to learn more about this guy!" The whole rest of the sleepover he was all I thought about.

 

When I was home the next day, I did what anyone would do and googled

"Ross Lynch"

From his Wikapedia page I learned that he was in a band called R5, and on a Disney channel show called Austin & Ally. Next I typed "Austin & Ally" into the YouTube search box, then "R5". I watched the first episode of "Austin & Ally" and the "(I Can't) Forget About You" music video, and it all grew from there. Now I have been to one of there concerts [check out this post for the whole story], and watched about every video they have every filmed!

 

 

Let me tell you about them...

 

R5 is made up of four guys and one girl. All of their names start with R. They are all siblings except for Ellington Ratliff, their best friend and hopefully future brother in law.

 

 The Lynch family originally lived in Colorado. When they were very little they loved to perform. The oldest, Riker, would have his little siblings put on a show with him, and they would perform it for their parents. They would sing, dance, and act together all the time. Their mom would call them R5 just to keep things simple. Like "R5, Get in the car!"  When Riker got older he planned to move out to California to persure a carrier in the entertainment business. So when the time came the whole family moved out to CA.

 

In California they started going out on auditions etc. and Rocky started teaching himself to play the guitar at about the age of 16. Then Riker got a bass and started playing it, and Ross also started playing the guitar.

 

One day they had their friend Ellington Ratliff over to play drums with them. They had met him at a performing arts studio, and they wanted someone to play drums with them. That was when R5 was really formed. Riker, Rocky and Ratliff were all playing instruments together, and it didn't sound very good, but they had such a fun time that they knew that that was what they wanted to do. 

 

They started playing shows wherever they could, and slowly grew a following. Around that time Ross booked the roll as "Austin Moon" on Disney channel's "Austin & Ally".  

 

 

 

 

Now let me introduce you to the members of R5...

 

RIKER

Riker is the oldest of the band, and he plays bass. He has been on "Glee" and won second place on "Dancing With The Stars". He is very happy and optimistic.

 

 

RYDEL

Rydel is the only girl in the band, and she plays keyboard. She is very bubbly!

 

 

ELLINGTON RATLIFF

Is their best friend, and Rydel's boyfriend. He plays drums, and is super silly.

 

 

 

ROCKY

Rocky plays the guitar and is the most musical of the group. He is also very funny and loves mac 'n' cheese. The GIF above describes him perfectly.

 

 

ROSS

 Ross is my favorite. He is the youngest of the band, play guitar, and is the lead singer. He also enjoys acting, drawing, flying airplanes, and photography. He also loves "Romeo & Juliet".





R5's family...

 

 RYLAND

Ryland is the youngest Lynch, and he is not in the band. He is a DJ, and he recently released his first single "Fall Back in Love". He comes on tour with R5 and performs as their opening act. He also does the light show during the show.

 

 

 

STOMIE & MARK

Stormie and Mark (far left and far right) are R5's parents. They also come with R5 on tour. Mark does all the back stage/behind the scenes stuff, and Stormie is their stylist.

 

 

MINI R5

Mini R5 are their cousins. Their is a "Mini" for every member of R5 and Ryland.

 

 

 

 

 

Rydellington...

Rydellington is Rydel and Ratliff. *OTP*

 

 

 

 

 

An R5 Show

They say you never fully understand R5 until you've been to a show. At first I didn't think much of that, but after going to their show, I understand. There is something about it that is so amazingly wonderful.

 

If you want to read all about the show then you can check out [this post].

An R5 show includes:

 

Super nice and polite fans

Ryland DJ-ing before the show.

Playing "We are Family" before the show starts

and then the greatest time of your life.

 

 

And they always put their hands in a pile and yell "Ready Set Rock" backstage before the show starts.

 

 

 

 

R5's music

 

R5 released their second album this summer, called "Sometime Last Night". The music before that album was...

 

Ready Set Rock (EP)

Loud (EP)

Louder (Album)

Heart Made Up On You (EP)

 

(and then Sometime Last Night)

 

Their latest music video (All Night).

 

Before writing "Sometime Last Night", they had an album all ready to go, but they completely got rid of it. It was a big risk, but it paid off. After they got rid of their album they started writing their song in their garage. That is how "Sometime Last Night" came to be.

 

This year they also released a documentary, "R5 All Day, All Night" about their lives.

 

 

 

 

 

 

So that ends my rant about R5.