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“When I started to write my own songs, I tried to just take in everything I heard and learn from it,” says frontman Shawn Fisher. “It wasn’t until a few years later that I really began to figure out my own way of saying things.” And these days, judging by the rabid reactions of the crowds that buy Shawn’s music and pack the shows by him and his band Son of a Bad Man, the 21-year-old singer-songwriter’s way of saying things is one that a lot of people are crazy about. And perhaps the best testimony thus far to Son of a Bad Man's jaw-dropping gifts as both composers and as performers is This is Me, their astonishing Universal Republic debut. Full of enough huge, sweeping choruses to fill every stadium in America, and rich with soaring vocals that absolutely beg to be blasted out of rolled-down, summer-cruising car windows, the five-song EP was cut in a head-spinning five days with Grammy-winning producer John Fields (Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus, Pink, Switchfoot). The result? A disc that utterly explodes with dangerously addictive, radio-ready anthems like “Open Your Eyes,” an uplifting, redemptive plea to a lost and lonely girl; “Out of Control,” a sexy, hip-churning party track about a love moving way too fast; and the defiant, guitar-crunching, fist-in-the-air title track. With This is Me, Son of a Bad Man hit the airwaves like a fully formed, heat-seeking rock ’n’ roll comet. “Shawn is that rare breed of singer that makes you believe every word he says, just by his openin