We sat down with Texas-based artist SkyDxddy to discuss her new singles “Why Do I Stay” and “traumacore.”
SkyDxddy started playing music at a young age as he loved writing songs and also acted in plays. What really moved her was that she found her mouth sparse after some kind of trauma. Unfortunately for her, growing up in a conservative small town in the South. A woman who grew up in a small town, in a way, it’s like she’s just being used for one thing…not very safe.
Being around such a culture-like energy of getting girls drunk and doing whatever they want led to several incidents that left Skye with a lot of pain, trauma, and mental illness. Needless to say, it didn’t help that she came out around the age of 15 and was openly gay again in a very conservative place. When she started attending college in New York, she realized it was similar. It doesn’t matter if you are in a city or a small town. That’s just life. It’s not safe, but do the best you can. Despite this, unfortunately, they will manipulate, lie, and do whatever it takes to get what they want.
Sky’s comment:
“That’s why my music is so important to me, and just as I’ve seen a lot of male musicians and rappers in the mental health field talking about what they’ve been through. I think that’s why I started it. It was great, but as you know me and my girlfriend at the time, she and I were both going through some really tough times and we weren’t sure how to get through it. I also realized that I didn’t understand. So she said, “What if you do that?” There didn’t seem to be any girls. Maybe there were some, but not everyone knew about them. So I gave it a try, and one day at work a few guys approached me. made an inappropriate joke. I was pissed and my first song, “Triggered,” kind of came out of that. ”
‘Traumacore’ is Sky’s attempt to trend on social media. It started as a thread on Reddit, and Sky discovered it was just art. It was like young children venting the trauma they had experienced, using themes such as Hello Kitty. It was very focused on sexual assault awareness, child abuse, and trauma in general. It’s like kids who have been traumatized and don’t know how to deal with it, so they’re making edits and memes and stuff like that. So I thought, “Why not turn this into something like a genre?” What would happen if we brought this presence into music? ” Sky seems to want to say that he brought it into the world of music and verbalized it by comparing it to illustrations.
Sky released a new single titled “Why Do I Stay” on February 23rd. It was a collaboration with Alex Cade. It was originally titled “The Masochist,” but it was a last-minute change because Skye didn’t want to glorify the idea of being in a toxic relationship and didn’t want that. “Why Do I Stay” advertises things like, “Get out of there, girl!”
The song’s theme comes from Skye’s upbringing and the fact that everyone has had toxic relationships, be it romantic, familial, or platonic. Her Skye has had several experiences where her people have not been kind to her or used her for their own selfish gain. From her makeup to gaining weight to having fun doing something, she got to make fun of everything she does. She had no support and was more like having a relationship with a bully than her partner. So it was her idea to be satirical.
Of course, no one likes that pain, but at the same time, what is love and what is it not? If you grew up witnessing it, just like she did in her own and other people’s homes. It’s the concept of love, what we see, and how we express love. Society even teaches that if a boy pulls your hair, it means he likes you. This leads to harmful and toxic growth. That’s the origin of “Why Do I Stay.” Many toxic relationships and a desire to let others know that they are not alone and that they are not afraid to leave. It was difficult to get over it, but I learned that it is better than enduring such abuse.
As for recording, it was really great. Skye describes it as exciting since she usually just raps and sings. She felt it was a punk rock-like song. This is also the first time she’s ever really done something like this, and it was a nice change to be able to let go of the vocals and get in your face. It’s something that I felt she would enjoy, and I especially loved her last song, “Seven Years.” It was very therapeutic and allowed all of her emotions to come out and she never talked about her depression from her past, all the seizures and trauma.
Stream “Why Am I Here?” here.
Your account is receiving a lot of hate from social media. What kind of world view do you think this new song will have? Sky believes the worst part is not necessarily the worldview of her work, as others think, but the fact that it affects her mental health. There’s a lot of hate on social media because people can comment and it’s allowed to be consumed.
For example, Skye was kissed without her consent in one of the shows, which was ridiculous because it caused so much trauma. No matter how bad she tried to tell herself, the amount of comments that kept saying that’s how it was and what she should have done wasn’t her fault. In the comments, there was a woman who took time out of her day to comment, and she wasn’t a “girl’s girl” at all. For two weeks in a row, she has responded to everyone defending Skye, saying things like “she doesn’t know why she’s crying” and “she’s getting so much attention.” The worst part for Skye is that even though she is a sexual assault victim, her mother, and her job, she literally posted everything on Instagram to fight people on the internet. It was something I was spending a lot of time on. Unfortunately, this kind of thing happens all the time, especially at concerts by smaller artists. This shows that these people are so miserable in their daily lives that they need to become bullies in order to feel any power.
Skye realizes that hatred is a powerful motivator that turns hatred into love. When someone sees a comment like, “No one is going to buy tickets to your show,” that comment is picked up and made public as a way to prove someone wrong. That’s one of the reasons why Taylor Swift is so big right now, half the world hates her and the other half absolutely loves her. So if she can take what she has and use it to her advantage, her pain will start to lessen.
Skye is learning that she too can be a voice and advocate for people who have gone through something like this. She said she was happy to capture it and show it to the world because she has a lot of artists and friends who have had similar things happen to them, not on camera, and that gender doesn’t matter in this kind of thing. thing.
Sky had a page called “The Daddy Channel” where she just did gay remixes. One of her videos went so viral that creators like Rosie O’Donnell and Jojo Siwa used its sound. Because of the explosion, there was a lot of hatred that arose from it. Actual homosexuals started using it as a kind of joke. As a result, people in her community started hating her, which affected her negatively. People kept saying things like, “Oh, I’m not gay anymore, so I’m straight.” Especially for people who have experienced traumatic events. They have religious trauma and all of that. Yes, it was crazy. If you know the song “ABCDEFU,” I made it into a song called “LGBTQIA I’m Gay.”
In the future, SkyDxddy will be touring with We Three. She has some songs in the punk rock genre, but she wants to keep going back and forth. The next song released may be a pop song. I’m currently working on a song with a guy named Sam Tinnes. Next time she goes to Los Angeles, that will be her main focus.