On the path to rock: Day Limns put their foot down to stay in style

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Singer, who started her career in pop, tells in an interview with g1 how the style influenced her. Day Limns bets on pop rock Reproduction/Instagram Religious upbringing in childhood delayed the singer Day Limns’ approach to music, especially rock. At 28 years old, the artist was one of the finalists in the sixth edition of “The Voice Brasil”, formed partnerships with Vitão, Di Ferrero, from NX Zero, opened shows for Pitty and Avril Lavigne, and works hard to open up more space and fight for rock. “I have 220 thousand monthly listeners on digital. I had almost a million, before I started rocking. But today I feel much more relevant”, she says in an interview with g1. “It’s incredible resistance. I want to be like Pitty, like Rita Lee, and make history.” This week, g1 publishes a series of reports on rock played by women. Day Limns changed the course of his career by opting for style and had to deal with the consequences. Music was a sin “The first memory that comes to mind – and psychoanalysis says this is exactly what it is – is me meeting Avril Lavigne when I was 7 years old, back in 2002. My cousin showed me ‘Sk8er boi'”, says the singer . “Rock came to me already very mainstream.” Camp rock: how musical camps are opening up space for girls to become rock stars Day, born in Goiania, says that it is almost impossible not to talk about the interference of religion in her musical training – or lack thereof. “I grew up in the Evangelical Church, and this is something that limited my possibilities because I couldn’t listen to ‘world music'”, she says. Avril Lavigne, influence for the new generation of pop rock artists Disclosure After his cousin’s introduction to the Canadian singer, Day dedicated himself to learning to play the guitar and international music. Even though she felt like she was committing a sin. She met Amy Lee’s Evanescence, Pitty, Linkin Park, and was also influenced by pop, such as Fifth Harmony and Demo Lovato. “I started watching MTV and for me rock became more pop. I discovered Green Day because I saw Avril Lavigne doing a cover. There was Fall out boy, Panic at the disco. Then heavier things came, I discovered Bring me the horizon, which I listened with a lot of guilt in my heart”, he says. The decision to become an artist came when she watched a performance by Hayley Williams’ Paramore on TV for the first time. “She’s one of the ones I identify with the most, because she’s a Christian woman, she comes from a religious background,” she says. Paramore, with Taylor York, Hayley Williams and Josh Farro Disclosure/Lindsey Byrnes “She sang about things that really touched me in this place, I felt less bad. It’s crazy, because at one time I had to fast from ‘music’ world’, it was a psychological pressure and Hayley made me feel better, to talk openly about her faith. It was okay to enter places, to be at the show, and that was very meaningful.” Day began her professional career doing covers, vocals and guitar, and posting on social media, still with pop influences, between 2012 and 2013, the same time she came out as a lesbian. She gained national attention when she was one of the finalists on The Voice Brasil, in 2017, on Lulu Santos’ team. “Welcome to the Club”, his first album based on pop rock and rock nostalgia, appeared in 2021, with partnerships such as Lucas Silveira, from Fresno, and the participation of Gee Rocha, from NX Zero, in the band. NX Zero is preparing to return to the stage Now, she says, she is trying to free herself from this nostalgia and find a path to call her own. “Pitty is a reference, but if people expect me to do the same, they will be upset,” she says. “I’m going to rock on my own terms, because for some people I’m not rock enough and I’m not pop enough either. I have to walk in my own little world.” Rocker turn Betting on a heavier sound was not an easy decision. “My first EP was released on a more pop and R&B chart, which I love, love. But it was something more romantic, more sensual and more commercial,” she says. “At this moment, I had a great debut, I was a new artist, I had the eyes of the industry, the record company, of ‘let’s invest’, until I released ‘Geminiana’, in 2019.” Despite being her most successful track, she says that at the end of that year, something bothered her about the direction her career was taking. Dissatisfied with the place she was occupying, she returned to the notepad and her compositions began to sound heavier, which resulted in the EP ‘A culpa é do meu signo’. “With ‘Geminiana’, I reached 900 thousand monthly listeners. I was on the cover of a playlist, I was on all the portals, that thing. But I was unmotivated. It was a difficult thing, singing in the first track that you are a woman and like another woman , immediately you are nichada.” Singer Day Limns takes a turn towards rock Gabriel Freitas It was with this feeling, she says, that made her return to the reasons that led her to music. “I remembered everything I heard and it was what made me dream, that’s why I said ‘Welcome to the club'”, she says. The album was an introduction to this new path she wanted to follow. “The drums and guitars were more filtered, because it was coming from ‘Geminiana’, which was more good, it had to soften people, and it couldn’t be heavy.” Even so, she says, her record company warned her about the possibility of it not working, as other artists were pursuing other sounds. “In a few years, everyone will want to do this and I want to lead the way in this new moment, in my own way.” “But that was it: I went from 900,000 monthly listeners to 100,000.” Resistance The return of bands like NX Zero, Paramore and other rock initiatives indicate that the scene may be changing for rock. However, there is resistance regarding her sound, according to her, because she is still a woman, brings LGBT themes and addresses issues linked to religion. But she doesn’t want to do anything different. “I became a traumatized person in many ways, a repressed person, and rock comes a lot from this place, from wanting revolution. Punk rock came a lot from that place and I’m going to keep trying,” she says. One of her moves is to try to bring more women backstage – from album production to the stage. And Day saw how important that is. She remembers months ago being one of the only women in the line-up at a multi-day rock festival. Day Limns: ‘I want to be like Pitty, like Rita Lee. I want to make history’ Reproduction/Instagram “I realized that I was the only woman, among people who had more years of career than I am. But I wasn’t intimidated , my references are women.” For her, being there, occupying that place, was an act of resistance, almost political, especially at a time when there is a certain disdain towards rock. “Today I have 220 thousand monthly listeners on the platforms. I already had almost a million, but today I feel more relevant”, she says. “The person who was there with 900 thousand wasn’t opening for Pitty, wasn’t opening for Avril Lavigne, or for Fresno, performing with Di Ferreiro”, she says. “I want to be like Pitty, man. I want to be like Rita Lee. I want to make history, I want to talk, generate discussion, make people talk about something that changes the course of their lives, like it changed mine. It’s really screaming , wanting to cause the revolution.”

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