Bryce Vine hopes crush Drew Barrymore will slide into his DMs

After singer-rapper Bryce Vine struck platinum with his 2017 single “Drew Barrymore,” he didn’t get any love from the actress whom he calls “Hollywood royalty.”

“Nah, man, she hasn’t called lately,” Vine, 31, says with a laugh about Barrymore not acknowledging the song. “I was kinda surprised too, ’cause I knew that it got big, and I used her as an example of what I feel like most guys want in a woman. It’s a pretty high compliment.”

Vine should be getting more props himself, thanks to his debut album “Carnival,” out Friday, which features the Drake-esque “Drew Barrymore.” A summer-ready soundtrack, easing with the chill breeziness of tunes such as current single “La La Land,” the LP will be brought to the stage when Vine’s tour hits Webster Hall on Aug. 3.

The gig at the East Village institution will be a homecoming of sorts for Vine, who was born on the Lower East Side, although he moved to Los Angeles when he was just 2. But while growing up, he would still spend summers in New York, where his grandfather Howard Johnson once owned the star-studded Upper West Side restaurant the Cellar.

‘I used her as an example of what I feel like most guys want in a woman.’

Although both of his parents are now retired, Vine’s dad, Brad Johnson, was also a restaurateur, while his mother, Tracey Ross, was an actress on the NBC soap opera “Passions.” Vine, who was born Bryce Ross-Johnson, adopted his stage name while at Berklee College of Music. “My last name is hyphenated between my mom’s and dad’s last names, and my whole life, for some reason that was confusing,” he says, adding that he chose Vine because “it was short for vinyl.”

Vine dropped out of Berklee to audition for “The Glee Project,” a reality series on Oxygen with contestants vying for a role on the TV show “Glee,” but he was the first finalist eliminated in 2011. To him, though, that was a blessing in disguise. “They wanted you to be a character, like play a character of yourself, and I didn’t want to do that,” he says. “I didn’t want to be an actor, I didn’t want to be a reality star. I wanted to make music.”

So does Vine have any other celeb crush worthy of getting a song named after her? “Tessa Thompson. She’s amazing, she’s beautiful and she’s an incredible actress. I love her.”

But Vine hasn’t given up on Barrymore just yet. “It’s not like there’s a window of opportunity,” he says. “She can hit me up in 10 years, and I’ll be happy.”

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