Beneath the cool exterior of DeathbyRomy’s glitter-dusted, spider web, eye makeup, and leather-studded accessories, lies a soft-spoken yet spunky 21-year-old trying to decipher romance and unrequited love through the sounds of her latest single, “Day I Die.”
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The person that Romy Flores is on stage often comes through in the singer’s personal life, allowing both sides of herself to exude, “confidence, strength, and power.” The artist tells us, “there is a certain strength behind the character I’ve tried to create, that I try to portray to the best of my ability, that isn’t a lack of who I am at all times, but definitely a more heightened version of it.”
Co-signed and managed by Rob Cavallo, the record producer behind the early works of Green Day, the Goo Goo Dolls, My Chemical Romance, and more, DeathbyRomy is on the fast track to modern-day dark electronic meets Pop punk success, and her latest single is doing all the talking.
Romy tells that she has been “cultivating” the DeathbyRomy persona since the age of 15, but amidst the recent release of “Day I Die” Romy’s ardent sense of self and depth of emotion is on full display… and it’s hard not be totally enthralled by the dark electronic Pop, rising star.
The Los Angeles native shares that she was able to spin together the “heavy love song” that is “Day I Die” by contemplating a spectrum of emotions and understanding that “pain is four-dimensional, so is love, so is happiness. There are so many layers to each individual emotion that I think I was able to achieve this heavy love song by thinking of the different elements of love.”
She continues, “Loving someone is never easy, nothing is perfect. All of us have flaws, all of us have passion and desires and dark moments, and this song is really just a passionate and gritty hopeless romantic’s anthem.”
Deeply inspired by Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance era, and admiring the Superstar’s adoption of trap influences in Pop music, DBR also finds inspiration from Gaga’s use of “dark modern synth work with orchestral elements as well. She was all over the place and she was so ahead of her time.”
Flores’ love for “that drama, mixed with the modern elements, mixed with the very cinematic elements” that Gaga achieves throughout all her music is something that Romy also aims to incorporate in her music as well. Focused on a timeless quality, with a modern edge and angst, DBR relies on her lyrical ability to sing about timeless themes, while her choice in production is a well-balanced mélange of early 2000s pop-punk and 2021 driven underground, dark electronic synth, and percussion shots.
“Day I Die” is centered around the kind of love Romy has “always longed for.” She notes, the “song is definitely inspired by being a bit lovesick, but also excited about how solid in myself I felt after spending a few years alone, recuperating, working, focusing on me…at the end of the day I’ll always refer to myself as a romantic. I’ve always had the fantasy we’ve all had as humans, which is to be in love.”
The singer notes that her latest single “was written about someone I hadn’t met yet.” The track exams what unrequited love feels like when one is simply pining for the feeling of being in love before even meeting their other half.
This fall, DBR will be performing “Day I Die” on a mini-tour. Hitting Los Angeles’ The Roxy on September 15, and New York City’s Baby’s All Right on October 7, the artist will pour her romanticism out on stage for a live audience. During her Los Angeles date, Romy will be joined by Royal the Serpent and bodyimage.
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