Madi
Diaz & Kacey Musgraves duet on new single, “Don’t Do Me Good,”
off forthcoming
album, Weird Faith
Madi Diaz “Is One Of
Our Most Important Songwriters, And Her Command
Of Melody And Language
Stands Alone” – Paste
Madi Diaz Presents Her
Second Pre-Release Single, “Don’t Do Me Good,” Off Weird Faith,
Out February
9th Via Anti
Announces A 2024 North
American Headline Tour.
Following Lead Single,
“Same Risk,” “Don’t Do Me Good” Showcases Diaz’s Collaborative Spirit As She
Mourns The Inevitable End Of A Relationship Alongside Musician And Friend,
Kacey Musgraves.
“Every
Time I Try To Walk Away I Stay, You Knew I Would,” They Sing, Followed By The
Reverberating Conclusion, “I Know Loving You, It Don’t Do Me Good.” A Woman’s
Admission That Peace Eludes Her Is Desperately Lonely, But Diaz Is Bolstered By
Musgraves’ Accompaniment In This Crushing Ballad. “I Wanted This Song To Feel
Like Calling Your Friend,” Explains Diaz. “That Moment Of Needing To
Commiserate And To Have That Person Say ‘Yeah, I've Been There’ And Share That
Experience With You.”
(14 Nov 2023) Madi Diaz
& Kacey Musgraves - Don't Do Me Good (Single; Anti/Epitaph) 4:13 Alternative
performed by Kacey Musgraves, Madi Diaz; written by Amy Wadge, Madi Diaz Track
8 from the album WEIRD FAITH out Feb 9, 2024
Speaking more to the collaboration with Musgraves,
Diaz commented, “I am so happy Kacey said ‘yes’ when I asked her to sing on
‘Don’t Do Me Good.’ This song would have been so awfully lonely without her and
I am so grateful I get to hear her voice on this with mine.”
“This song is about that person that we keep coming back to,” Diaz explained, “no matter how many times they let us down. It's about waking up every day and making the choice to love a person unconditionally while it’s simultaneously getting harder and harder to ignore that nothing is getting better in the relationship. It’s stubborn, it’s defiant, it's hopeful, and it's aggressively optimistic. It’s about being a bit of a masochist and being so in love with the hard work of loving a person that you don’t know how to walk away from them.”
Diaz (vocals, guitar, bass, piano, organ) and
Musgraves (vocals) are joined by the album’s co-producers Sam Cohen (bass) and
Konrad Snyder (percussion), as well as The Walkmen’s Matt Barrick (drums,
percussion). The song’s accompanying music video was directed by Elizabeth
Olmstead.
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Musgraves Team Up on the
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On her last album, HISTORY OF A FEELING, Diaz
confronted the dissolution of a long relationship and a nuanced breakup. On
Weird Faith Diaz once again examines a romantic partnership, but this time, her
songs are about falling for someone and the endless self-questioning a new
relationship inspires. “After being really burned by love – maybe relentlessly
burned by it – the album is about being brave and trying again. Doing it
differently,” she says. “It’s in our nature to try to be brave like that. You
see the car crash coming. Maybe it won’t happen, but you're bracing for it
anyway.” In the throes of new love, she repeatedly encountered the same
questions: “Am I ready for this? Can I do this? Can I trust myself to know the
good from the bad?”
ABOUT: Madi Diaz grew up in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where she was
home-schooled by her Peruvian mother, Nancy, a proponent of early childhood
development and the visual arts, and her Danish father, Eric, a woodworker and
musician. She began piano lessons at age five from her father.
After high school, Diaz was accepted to Berklee College of Music. At Berklee,
she began working with Kyle Ryan, the Nebraska-raised guitarist who would be
her songwriting collaborator for her early career.
Madi has been making records and writing songs
professionally since the late 2000s, but it wasn’t until she released 2021’s
History Of A Feeling that she felt the glare of wider notoriety. It wasn’t her
debut album, but it certainly felt like it.
She made her daytime and nighttime television debuts, embarked on her
first solo tour since 2014, supported Waxahatchee and Angel Olsen on tour, and
collaborated with them on record.
The song "The End of the Day," written by Diaz and Sarah Siskind, was featured on the television
series Nashville (performed by Connie Britton and Charles Esten).
She signed with ANTI-
Records in February 2021.
Harry Styles handpicked Diaz to open for him in arenas and stadiums in North America,
and was so taken by her captivating live show, he asked her to be a member of
his touring band, to sing alongside him all over Europe and the UK, as well as
continuing to open the show in various cities.
Following a headline show at London’s Bush Hall (Oct
12, 2023), Diaz embarked on a North American tour supporting My Morning Jacket.
After three months on the road touring
internationally, Diaz is back in Nashville and gearing up to release her new
album, Weird Faith, perched on the precipice of her moment. 617,387 Monthly Spotify Listeners
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