Check out our exclusive interview with Ladii Girl. For audio of the interview, click on the player below.
All right, we’re here with Ladii Girl. How’s it going?
Great, how’s it going with you?
Doing good, doing good. For those unfamiliar with your music, tell me a little bit about how you got your start in music and who are some of your musical influences out there coming up.
Sort of, so like, I’ve always been into music, ever since I could remember. I come from a musical family. My cousin was in the group The Superiors
My mom was friends with Donna Summer, like big Boston based groups and things like that. It’s always just been in me. In school, I was part of the state choir.
In church, I’m singing in the choir. In coming up, I’ve always wrote, so that’s always been like my first love is writing. My influences, they stretch far and long.
It’s like all the way back from like artists like Kenny Lester coming into like Stylistics, Delphonics, Earth, Wind, and Fire, all the way up into like, you know, like the 80s with Taylor Zanes and Paula Abdul, and of course Whitney Houston. Just like so many different influences in my life as far as musicals, and it’s generational. Like I think when you come from a musical family, you hear all types of music and all generations of music that influence kind of what I do.”
Okay, absolutely. And you just recently dropped two singles which we premiered on the site, Sweetest Taboo and Entanglement. Tell me a little bit about the new singles and how they came together for you.
Yeah. So Sweetest Taboo was actually off of my project standing on my business. It was the latest EP that I put out, and I decided not to kind of do it as a whole EP and just kind of drop singles off of it.
And Sweetest Taboo is all about love. It’s like in that beginning, that honeymoon phase when everything is sensual and sexual and steamy.
It’s a great time.
But it’s- Yes.
And it’s that kind of euphoric feeling that you get when you are realizing this is love and the feelings that are given to you, those emotions that are intertwined with your heart and your mind, and that freedom that you have, but you’re still kind of resistant and it’s like, wow, this is great.
Absolutely. And is the single Entanglement, is that also from the EP or is that coming up for a new project?
That it was on the EP, so we kind of remixed it. I had it in a different format, a different kind of sound because I’m actually shooting a micro movie. And so the way I had to sing it for the micro movie almost sounds like a James Bondish kind of vibe.”
But realistically, the one that we released as a single is the true song. So it’s part of the project, but it’s still its own entity. It’s really weird, but it kind of goes with how it should go.
But Entanglement is for me one of those songs, like you see it every day really in today’s society. And people are becoming more and more comfortable with their arrangements. And I’m not Judge Bento.
I just write what I see. Monogamy is no longer really a thing for, you know, quite a lot of people. And some people have open relationships.
Some people are into the polygamy thing. And that’s great. Why not make a song for them?
OK, absolutely, absolutely. And then, do you have a release date? You mentioned the mini movie for the single.
Do you have a release date set for it, or is that still in the works?
It’s still in the works because it’s such a huge project. This is one of the bigger projects that I’ve undertaken since my career started in 2012. And, you know, I got the inspiration from, if you look at great artists like Michael Jackson, I have to even throw R. Kelly in there, you know, but those types of storytelling and being able to capture an entire story from beginning, middle, and ending in a video format that is not going to be more than three minutes long. It takes a lot.
Absolutely. All right, we’re now seven months into 2026. Just what’s your thoughts on the music industry in 2026 and maybe some new R&B albums that you’ve been checking out or singles or even some oldies, like what’s currently playing on your playlist?
Oh, I have Jasmine Sullivan, of course, because I think she’s like the greatest. I think she’s Jasmine Sullivan for me, and October London is another one who I think is doing some great things.
He’s really dope.
Yes. I love him. I follow him.
I’m just like, his reinvention of Marvin is like, yes, me.
I’m liking Duran Bernard. He just won his first, I believe it was his Grammy, and he’s been working so hard. So like, there are people that I’m following as far as like Superman, he’s an indigenous artist.
He’s really doing some good things. He has a new song coming out called I Remember. And he’s just so cool.
As an indigenous woman, I get it. So I’m watching people like Bella Standing Bear, and you know, those who come from the indigenous world, like I do. Yeah, it’s just exciting.
Music is exciting right now for me. There’s so many great artists coming out. I’m so happy that we’re actually getting back to actual singing.
Yes.
Like really carrying notes and riffs and runs and all of that stuff and keys and not just, I used to, I call it talk singing, because that’s what it was for me. Like people are just talk singing. They’re talking and then they have a kind of riff at the end or one.
True, very true.
Yeah, but I’m watching a lot of artists just kind of like come up. And I’m also watching the older artists, the established artists. I won’t call them old, the established artists that are still hanging in there or trying to make a comeback.
There’s so many artists out there just traveling and doing shows. Like I just seen, Oran Juice Jones had a show in Rhode Island.
Oh wow.
Right. So I like to see them still working. It gives me hope as an independent artist, and I kind of dangle in between both worlds.
I’m on the brink. That’s what I call it. I’m on the brink.
That glass ceiling, like I’m tapping at it, is cracked, you know. So to be in the company of established artists and still be able to walk in the path of an independent artist and making waves and being recognized. I just got a plaque, so that was great.
Congratulations.
Thank you. It’s really, I don’t know, I feel honored. I feel blessed.
I’m able to do what I love to do and make a career out of it and without the backing of a major label. It’s not easy. I won’t say that, but it’s like happening.
And, you know, they say when you’re in it and it’s happening, you don’t realize it. And you kind of missed that moment. And you’re like, wow, how did I get here?
I’m kind of in that phase.
Got it. Absolutely. One of many in the future. Definitely. Congratulations on that.
Thank you.
As far as shows or tour dates, do you have any that are coming up? You want to let people know about?
Absolutely. So, I have a show coming up planned in September. In between time and the meantime, I’m just trying to continue to write.
And I’ll get to the show in September because it’s very important. It’s a big show. I’m trying to write.
I’m trying to stay healthy and fit. You know, you have to be healthy to do this.
Absolutely.
Because health is wealth. So, come September, it will be myself, Nivea OTR and Jay Holliday will be at Electric Haze on 26 Milberry Street in Wissamass. And now, I have performed on the same stage as Jay Holliday before, but this one is kind of special.
This one is more of an intimate setting, more personal with the fans. The last one we did was a festival, so, you know, white array people in the big stage. This is more, you know, I get to talk to the people.
I get to really engage. And for me, that’s what it’s about. I want fans, followers, friends, family, however you want to classify yourself in my book, to really get a chance to know me, to know my heart, know my music, know kind of what makes me tick and why I do this.
And I think my music kind of reflects that. It’s an array of emotions from my very beginning. It’s been an evolution, you know.
When you first got out, you’re green. You know nothing. You just want to make music.
But as you grow, you hone your craft and you continue to work and you should grow. And I feel like that I have grown in my writing and my sound and my concept and my thought and my maturity as a woman. To be able to convey everything that I go through, that I think, that I see into my music.
Okay, absolutely, absolutely. What’s your website information for people looking to check out your music and see what you got going on?
Oh, they definitely can go to my website. It is www. That’s so old school to say that.
officialladigirl.com. Or I just tell people really, the simplest way is just to Google me. And that’s not even like, you know, people are cocky.
It’s just so easier just to say Google Ladigirl, L-A-D-I-G-I-R-L, because then everything pops up. You get to see all of the blog, write up, the videos, every platform where the music is, my social medias. Instead of giving a million and one links, this is the easiest way.
Okay, absolutely. All right, well that’s all the questions I have for you. Appreciate you getting down for the interview.
Is there any last words or shout outs you want to get out there to the people?
I want to thank you, first of all, and first and foremost for your time and accommodations. Secondly, I want to thank everybody who’s been supporting me from the very beginning and those who are just coming on board. Welcome, I welcome, welcome, welcome you.
Please stay along for the ride. And any artist that is driving out there to make it. It’s not just a hobby, this is your dream.
Like, make it happen. That’s the only thing I can say is make it happen. Don’t wish, don’t hope, don’t dream.
Make it happen, do it.