I’ve been blessed to have a lot of amazing women in my life.
I didn’t want to have one specific girl in the video. The concept behind the video is that I do have a girlfriend, and the whole song asks you not to look at her, so I leave the audience with eight other girls to look at. This music video is long overdue, especially with the song being featured in the Never Have I Ever Season 2 finale, which I’m in. The song has been out for a couple of months. PC: You also just released the music video for “Girlfriend.” Can you walk us through the filming and concept?ĭana: I’m super excited that the “Girlfriend” music video has dropped. That song is really, really telling about where I was in my life and where I’m at now in my life, and I think fans will be very surprised and maybe even impressed to hear those kinds of thoughts from me. It’s a beautiful place out there, and I had a moment to reflect. I wrote the whole poem after I had left this vacation in Joshua Tree. PC: If you had to pick a song off of Love So Different that best encompasses who you are as an artist, which would it be and why?ĭana: I would say it’s track four, “Wednesday Rendezvous.” It’s an interlude. I’m able to get my message across better now than ever. This new EP is a lot heavier in terms of production. I was proving to the universe and to myself that I’m really here. With my first project, I was almost trying to prove to myself that I could make good music and be unique. PC: How does this sophomore EP differentiate itself from Familiar Strangers? What did you learn putting together your debut EP that you’ve applied to Love So Different?ĭana: They differ in perspective. Through the trials of the COVID pandemic, I’ve learned to love myself more. I wasn’t writing about what I want so much as I was writing about where I’m at and where I want to be in the future. It took a lot more self-love for me to write these songs than others I’ve written in the past. This is a project where I took the time to really tell the stories I wanted to tell. What can fans expect?ĭana: Fans can expect more genuine stories from Dana’s perspective. Pop Culturalist was lucky enough to chat with Dana about Love So Different, how COVID made him focus on self-love, and Never Have I Ever Season 2.
This July, the global superstar released his highly-anticipated sophomore EP Love So Different, which brings his fresh take on R&B to the forefront. When he’s not bringing characters to life on the screen in projects like Never Have I Ever, Dana can be found in the studio creating hits like “Feelings”, “Rough Rider”, and “Girlfriend”.
Dana Vaughns has stamped his place among Hollywood’s most exciting triple threats.