LOS ANGELES — New singer songwriter Diamond D. Taylor may only be 19 going on 20, but she has enough life experience to know she demands the best of people she’s around and that means “No fuckboys and No Broke Niggas.”
The title of Taylor’s new single is a warning to those who might try to gaslight her and other girls that their games won’t work and emotions are not to be toyed with.
“So many guys out here, they're liars and they’re manipulators and they gaslight so many girls,” Taylor said. “I was like I want to write a song about this, this is what I'm experiencing, I’m experiencing a lot of these fuckboys, they’re coming into my life, they’re making and breaking promises and not even realizing the trauma they’re leaving these girls with. You don’t know in the moment that you are having this negative impact on someone’s life when you actually are. So it’s like the behavior you’re exhibiting is really horrendous and you're messing with girls feelings and it’s not ok.”
Growing up in the home of Jack Harlow, Bryson Tiller and Jennifer Lawrence — Louisville, Ky. — Taylor spent her earliest years focused on acting. She attended the Walden School for Fine and Performing Arts in Louisville at age 12 and by age 13 she was laser-focused on being a YouTube personality, gaining nearly 1,000 followers in a short time.
Three years later she decided she wanted to focus on acting, but then at age 16 she realized the impact music had made on her through her adolescents and into her teenage years and decided to try singing and songwriting.
She put out a couple of soulful and melodic R&B tunes, “Do You Ever Notice Me,” and “Young Love,” and worked on developing her voice and her style in music.
“Music has always been in my life,” Taylor said. “Music helps me get into certain characters in acting, it helps me feel certain emotions and evoke certain things, it helps in my happy moments and my sad moments. I guess music has always kind of been there, but until I was about 17 I didn’t feel like I was making music that really resonated with me or resonated with my generation.
“I was listening to other artists mix with different beats and synthesize and I was like, I’m a black girl and I want to be in rock but I don't want to typically sing. I want to rap it and harmonize with certain beats.”
That’s when her music changed and gained an edge and grit — as she describes it “If you would take Linkin Park and put it in girl form.” That edge shows with her latest single “No fuckboys and No Broke Niggas.”
“I discovered Nirvana a couple of years ago when I was watching loads of documentaries on the past and previous decades and I was enthralled by their music,” Taylor said. “Also I like Alanis Moressette and more recently I discovered Flyleaf and I really found out I love music that sounds like that, the harmonies, the instruments, kind of like the gritty guitar and the bass in the background. While I was listening to Aaliyah, I was also hearing that before she died she was trying to explore that pop punk type sound and I was like, I kind of want to do that because it sounds really cool and no one’s really doing that. So I guess that’s kind of how I made my sound. It’s gritty, more edgy, I want to say like dirty but rock and rap kind of sound.”
“No fuckboys and No Broke Niggas,” is out on all platforms now and Taylor is working on an as yet unnamed EP to come out maybe in the fall. She said this new EP would really showcase her versatility and voice.
“These new songs are going to be more versatile,” Taylor said. “The songs on this upcoming EP won’t sound the same and it’s like that so you can see the different facets of me. I’m writing a song now where the lyrics are more cathartic, you can really feel where I’m coming from instead of being just a catchy tune. It’s more about who I am in my journey of discovery as this young adult out here, navigating career, navigating life, navigating love and relationships, navigating who I am as a person.”
See Diamond D. Taylor’s work and keep up with her on all platforms and social media:
Websites:
Spotify
Soundcloud
Apple Music
Socials:
Facebook
Other Social Media: @Diamonddtaylor
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