When it comes to being a songwriter, there’s a necessary knack for anthropology and people skills that comes with it. If you can’t write a song about walking a day in someone else’s shoes, there are probably only so many songs you can write from personal experience before the creative well dries up and writer’s block sneaks in. Writing a blend of personal and fictional lyrics has saved countless singer-songwriters, and times haven’t changed much in that regard. When you can write a song about anything, folks have undoubtedly sound ways to write about everything. Dianña’s an example of someone unafraid to write about anything and everything, as her most popular single to date (“Calm Down Karen”) struck gold on TikTok and works almost in direct opposition with what her fans know her music to be.
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The artistic ability to cover a lot of ground in your music, especially in your lyrics, is crucial in today’s modern social media frenzied world — writing for the masses means always trying to predict the masses, and that’s never been a feasible task. “Calm Down Karen” was a goldmine that happened to go viral, but some songs never get the chance due to their much more earnest and non-meme approach. Dianña’s latest single, “Hands,” is a song that deserves as much praise as the aforementioned “Calm Down Karen,” but getting it to that point won’t be so easy. The duality between the two songs alone is striking, as they both play within the realm of country music, but “Hands” offers a humanitarian approach to the matter while the former operates as a real song that has been adopted into TikTok culture.
“Hands” is a crown jewel in Dianña’s musical crown, with its twinkling country production and Dianña’s warm vocals ushering in a new era for the singer; her last single came three months ago with “Gonna Take A Real Strong Man,” the slow rollout of new material from the country singer-songwriter is deeply exciting and will have fans stoked for whatever else is on the horizon as these singles have been fantastic. “Hands” feels like low-hanging fruit at first when it comes to confronting the concept as a song — imagine if someone told you tomorrow that Taylor Swift wrote a song about hands — but the real strength of the single is the fact that Dianña doesn’t stoop to typical pop music sensibilities. She instills her single with humanity, faith, and an overall mature approach that you can’t find anywhere else.
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Dianña is a country music marvel and her career feels at the precipice of something unknowingly great! Singles such as “Hands” and “Gonna Take A Real Strong Man” showcase the strengths Dianña has, and her music overall comes across as unpredictable in the best ways. Whether she be telling Karens to calm down or discussing the importance of staying true to your plan and remembering what’s written in your hands, Dianña is no novice to the songwriting world… and everyone is about to find out.
Troy Johnstone