Five years after her debut solo album “Red,” Dia Frampton is finally back with “Bruises.”
The singer and actress, who started as one-half of the sister duo Meg & Dia before getting her big break in the first season of “The Voice,”, enlisted the help of producer Dan Heath (he’s worked with names like Lana Del Rey, Hans Zimmer and Troye Sivan) for the album.
Last summer, Frampton, who’d been making ends meet working at a food stall at Grand Central Market in Los Angeles, wrote publicly about her struggles as a musician in a blog post titled “I’d Get to the Top of the Mountain if it Would Just Stop F—king Growing,” where she described feeling like “a washed-up, bitter ex-musician who used to have a future.”
That feeling, Frampton said, fed into the album, which is a telling of her journey through the last five years as she navigates the acceptance of no longer being a kid. “Ten years ago, I was ‘La La Land’ times 20,” Frampton said. “I was singing and dancing and everything was beautiful and I was a young dreamer and I was going to do this, this and this by the time I was 25. I just thought it was going to work out in the way that I had mapped out. Now I’m turning 30 this year, and where I’m supposed to be, I’m so far away from.”
Nowadays, it’s about finding joy in the craft and understanding that, despite hardships, conviction in what she loves — the arts — is what matters most, Frampton said.
“[If I were to give advice to a young dreamer] I would ask: If you know that at 30 years old, you’re going to be working in a health food store for minimum wage, would you still be wanting to do this, or are you doing it because you think it’s going to be a lot of money or fancy Chanel purses? What is it that’s driving you to this?”
Check out Dia performing “Out Of The Dark” and “Dead Man,” both from “Bruises,” at our studio below!
“Bruises” comes out March 3. Check out Dia at diamusic.net, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/DiaFramps.
