Artists of 2020- Diandra Interviews CYN: A Proud Pop Princess

CYN has to be one of the most easy-going human beings you will ever meet. She is calm, soft-spoken, and even when she is frustrated, she sounds like sage clearing out impending, bad vibes. This is a FANTASTIC quality to have in an industry that has no problem telling people, especially women, how they should look, sound, speak, and overall represent themselves. As a “girlie girl” and feminist, CYN has not always had it easy when trying to push her desired self-image, and in our interview she discusses how she has no problem peacefully pushing back at others’ push-backs.

Diandra: When you think of love, who is the first person you think of?

CYN: Ummmmmm,well……..I don’t want to say who I think of, but it is, definitely, someone I knew once. (she laughs). I, probably, hear love in Claire De Lune or La Vie En Rose, and I, probably, see love in the Notebook. Is that lame?
CYN – Holy Roller

Diandra: Well, it was a hit move! What do you think they taught you about love?

CYN: I think Claire De Lune taught me about love past the honeymoon phase like, you can stay in love by being in love with the journey of Love. The way the song is structured is that the Lovers realize you can be comfortable in love and complacent with it and, in that, fall in love again. Does that make sense?

Diandra: Yeah, I interpret it as there is beauty in getting used to loving someone. Like, the honeymoon phase is exciting, but as the relationship grows older, the very time of loving someone is comforting.

CYN: Love is like a being in itself. When you love someone, it like you are loving and choosing to take care of this whole other being. It is either going to grow with you guys or it won’t. It is a whole other universe that has its climaxes and changes and you both decide whether it works or not, but, at least, you had that time together. When you hear Claire De Lune, you hear the journey of love, and, even in the turmoil. there is a comfort in knowing you had it like, that is the resolution.

Diandra: Is that what you aim to bring people with your music: a form of comfort with love?

CYN: I think so in my melodies. I think the way I set up verses and chords, definitely, has a picture of love.

Diandra: I feel like your music is so upbeat, especially in the time of anxiety pop, which I know you don’t really like.

CYN: If the artist is reflecting from an authentic place, then it is not for me to say I don’t like it. If that is where you are at then that is where you are at. For me, my personal place, like my goal is to provide people with a more positive, personal experience. I have had a good life and I am optimistic. It is kind of funny to be the outlier in that I have happy thoughts.

Diandra: Well, I never saw your dislike of it as negative or saying it is bad. I saw it more like a “taste” thing or someone saying I don’t want to enter those spaces.

CYN: Yeah, that is exactly what I meant. I think when I am going through things or have got through heartbreaks, my mom never catered to me or let me play victim. So I think when I am going through things, in my mind, I can’t get to the conclusion that the other person is terrible. Like, that is not realistic. I have never dated a psycho (she laughs). If that makes sense.
CYN – Holy Roller

Diandra: Yeah, like you said, love grows. So do you feel, as a creative, that you have to grow as a person to create or you grow as a person because you create. Chicken or egg?

CYN: I have no idea! After I write songs, I can tell I have grown, but I can’t tell if I wrote them because I have grown before or through them. I, definitely, wrote a lot of the songs on my last EP in the same week. Ever since that week, I became a different artist. It really is insane because after that week I am a different artist.

Diandra: What launched that change?

CYN: I went on tour with Katy Perry in Mexico, and I was playing songs like “Believer” and “Together” and I can hear in some of the choices in my songs that I was thinking of the audience. I was thinking “Oh, they will like this” and “Oh, they will really like that!,” and I don’t really want to think like that. I asked myself why am I doing things to cater to an audience. It is like when you do things to be like in highschool. I only have one chance at this, and one life as this person so why would I waste it not following my heart.

Diandra: Do you think that is why you called the EP Mood Swing?

CYN: Definitely! Also, to be frank, I can have really bad mood swings. I get really bad periods and I get really moody, and it is apart of being a girl. I’m going to be twenty-seven next year so. I am a woman. So my new EP was like a celebration of owning that moodiness.

Diandra: How do you embrace your moodiness in an industry that is so male?

CYN: I think being traditionally feminine, in this time, is not leading the pack. Don’t get me wrong! I think we should challenge traditional feminine ideas, but I am a traditional girl in my look and my essence. It is interesting presenting my ideas, and I just did a cover of “New Year’s Eve.” and I wore a gown, and pinned my hair like the 1920’s, and red lips. I was told it is not going to be interesting if it is too girlie. The industry is not wanting more tomboyism, and I feel like I am doing something that is not on trend right now. Am I making sense?

Diandra: I see it as you are saying you are a “girlie girl” and you are coming up in a time where being “tomboyish” is a trend in music, which means you, probably, have a lot of men telling you that is what you need to be to make money. In a way, you cannot escape being a woman told what to wear or do.

CYN: Totally! I love the different ideas of what a woman should be and letting a woman decide who she wants to be. I think we should define ourselves and what femininity means to us. I gravitate towards, you know, frilly dresses and upbeat songs that are less hateful towards love. I feel confident in being a leader in helping people find a brighter side and inspiring them to have a positive look.
Cyn – What Are You Doing New Years Eve? (Cover)

Diandra: Would you say that you are a naturally happy person?

CYN: Sometimes, I ask myself if I am, maybe, just lucky: living a life that is somehow in a bubble. Am I creating happy music because I am a happy person or because I am a certain person that did not have to face certain struggles? Yet, I have been through a lot. My mother and I an my sister, we did not have a lot. I had to do a lot to get where I am today, and even, in the last year, I went through some bad heartbreaks. I can do the mean or sad songs. Yet, I work really hard to be positive and optimistic because that feels more authentic to me. For example, this guy was really pissing off and being super nasty and I said, “Wow, he must really be having a bad day. I hope he gets well soon.” *(she laughs) Even in that, I had this sassy spin. It is who I am. Sometimes, I think the way that people treat you is more a reflection on them than you. So I just say, “Get well soon.”

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