Haley Georgia is well aware that an artist's debut single is her first chance to establish an identifiable brand. It's her prerogative if she'd rather use that opportunity to stir up questions. Questions like, "Did she really just say that?" In the first few lines of "Ridiculous," a country-pop kiss-off to a fickle guy propelled by a mandolin melody over hip-hop drums, the 19-year-old, Texas-raised singer-songwriter plays a cheeky trick on the ear. She repeats, "You're ri-dic, you're ri-dic, you're ri-dic-culous," but the lyric bears an unmistakable phonetic similarity to a much crasser comeback. Georgia knows exactly what she's doing here: bringing youthful, eye-rolling inflections and chopped-up hip-hop cadences to country music with more wit and camp than most of her male counterparts. "If anything, my perspective on things is what's gonna set me apart," Georgia tells Billboard. "I've always sorta had a skewed vision on love and people."