Former member of Harry Styles' touring band Madi Diaz explains how journals, attachment styles, and old exes inspired her album 'Weird Faith.'
The indie-folk songwriter and former member of Harry Styles’ touring band explains how old journals and attachment styles shaped her albumMadi Diaz sings directly to her ex-boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend. “Are you hoping he’ll catch feelings for you again?” she accuses over grinding, anxious guitar, oscillating between hating her guts and admiring how pretty she is. It’s messy, earnest, and painfully relatable.
“Everybody has those moments,” she says of the song “Girlfriend” over a recent Zoom. “The whole record is those moments. They're all songs written inside of these totally little panicked, very reactive moments.” Below, the musician breaks down the influences that shapedDIAZ: I think attachment styles come up specifically in “Same Risk,” “Everything Almost,” and “Get To Know Me” big time. I have been historically classified as avoidant as far as attachment styles go.
I think are helpful generalizations that give me another language to describe whatever mode I happen to be in in that particular relationship. We're bombarded with so much relational language on the internet. Accounts likecan be really super helpful in some ways, but I also can find that stuff to be very finger pointy.