Madi Diaz

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With Weird Faith, Diaz , who “makes even the most immovable feelings open up with just a little time and space” (Pitchfork), comes up against a problem that has dogged songwriters since time immemorial: how do you write about romance, or love, without making it sentimental or fake? For Diaz, the answer was to explore how anxiety.

Madi Diaz has been making records and writing songs professionally since the late 2000s, but it wasn’t until she released 2021’s History Of A Feeling that she felt the glare of wider notoriety. It wasn’t her debut album, but it certainly felt like it.  She made her daytime and nighttime television debuts, embarked on her first solo tour since 2014, supported Waxahatchee and Angel Olsen on tour, and collaborated with them on record. Harry Styles handpicked Diaz to open for him in arenas and stadiums in North America, and was so taken by her captivating live show, he asked her to be a member of his touring band, to sing alongside him all over Europe and the UK, as well as continuing to open the show in various cities. After three months on the road touring internationally, Diaz is back in Nashville and gearing up to release her new album, Weird Faith, perched on the precipice of her moment. 
 
On her last album, History of a Feeling, Diaz confronted the dissolution of a long relationship and a nuanced breakup. “Writing that record was like throwing a dart at an emotional dart board,” she says. “I was trying to get closer to the bullseye of the core of what I was feeling with no goal other than processing my own grief.” Though it was scary to put those feelings out there for mass consumption, Diaz found the process of bringing the record on tour strangely healing. Fans screamed along to her set, and the power of hearing her words echoed back to her at a place like Wembley Stadium was affirming. “It's so empowering to stand in a room hearing girls yelling as loud as they can possibly yell,” she says. While she penned songs for artists like Kesha, Little Big Town, and more, time on the road renewed Diaz’s excitement about her own project, her own story.  
 
On Weird Faith, Diaz once again examines a romantic partnership, but this time, her songs are about falling for someone and the endless self-questioning a new relationship inspires. “After being really burned by love – maybe relentlessly burned by it – the album is about being brave and trying again. Doing it differently,” she says. “It’s in our nature to try to be brave like that. You see the car crash coming. Maybe it won’t happen, but you're bracing for it anyway.” In the throes of new love, she repeatedly encountered the same questions: “Am I ready for this? Can I do this? Can I trust myself to know the good from the bad?” 
 
The album’s stirring closer “Obsessive Thoughts” is about exactly that. It opens with quivering strings, as if in mimicry of a nervous heartbeat, before the chorus crashes in like a gale force, toppling any sense of unease. “It’s a lot, it’s a lot/ Obsessive thoughts,” she howls. The song will vindicate anyone who’s ever struggled with the same and while Diaz might consider those obsessive thoughts an impediment, they’re also what makes her a bold, singular songwriter. The poetry in her lyrics don’t obfuscate the reality of what she’s singing about: trusting another person with your heart is hard. 
 
While writing Weird Faith, Diaz came up against a problem that has dogged songwriters since time immemorial. How do you write about romance, or love, without making it sentimental, schlocky, or fake? For Diaz, the answer was to explore how anxiety-inducing, if not downright humiliating falling in love can be. Weird Faith answers these questions bluntly, and Diaz says the record “chronicles a new relationship, but also a new relationship to myself.” This record exists between the time you say “I Love You” and the moment they say it back (or don’t). Album opener “Same Risk” acknowledges that feeling from the outset. “Do you think this could ruin your life? Cause I can see it ruining mine,” Diaz asks plainly. It’s a disarmingly honest moment, her barefaced and fearless lyrics becoming all the more impactful as the rhythm section briefly drops out of the mix. It’s but one of the breathtaking production choices Diaz made on the album with help from friends Sam Cohen and Konrad Syder. “Sam makes raw, grungy, rambunctious records, and I needed him to help me crack open the door and start sonically exploring what the record would be,” Diaz says about her time spent recording in Woodstock. “Later in Nashville, Konrad and I were able to push what we did even further, until it was beyond the sonic landscape of what I had set out to make.”  
 
Diaz’s collaborative spirit is the result of living in Nashville, where she moves in a tight-knit group of songwriters. “It’s the type of place where you get into deep conversations with people at 2AM then go to the gas station for a six pack because you’re not done talking yet,” she says. Kacey Musgraves is one of those friends and she accompanies Diaz on the devastating ballad “Don’t Do Me Good,” a song that mourns the end of a relationship before the inevitable end. It’s desperately lonely, a woman’s admission that peace eludes her, but Diaz is bolstered by Musgraves, as if to indicate that she’s never truly alone, that there is always a friend on the other end of the line waiting on your call.  
 
That difficulty of trusting someone with your heart comes to a head on “For Months Now,” which sounds like the hard-fought revelation at the end of a therapy session. “It’s about knowing a relationship is over, you just haven’t acknowledged it yet,” Diaz says. On “Hurting You,” she acknowledges it. “Hurting you is hurting me,” she fervently sings on the chorus, her stark words bolstered by the sparest production heard on the album. It’s a crushing song, but it’s also an auspicious one. When Diaz started writing Weird Faith, she knew it would be bigger than a love story. She didn’t yet know that she was rendering a self-portrait, one that captures the Madi Diaz of a fleeting moment in time, hungrily alive and forever searching. A search that has led to a record highlighting the human experience of spinning out on the fall into love, bold in its honesty, and matching the momentum of Madi Diaz.  
 
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Don't Do Me Good
Madi Diaz
Weird Faith
04:13
Writer: Madi Diaz - Amy Wadge / Composers: Madi Diaz - Amy Wadge
09
History Of A Feeling
Madi Diaz
History Of A Feeling
03:19
Writer: Madi Diaz - Natalie Hemby / Composers: Madi Diaz - Natalie Hemby
01
Resentment (New Feelings Version)
Madi Diaz
Same History, New Feelings
02:52
Writer: Madi Diaz - Jamie floyd - Stephen Wrabel / Composers: Madi Diaz - Jamie floyd - Stephen Wrabel
02
Everything Almost
Madi Diaz
Weird Faith
03:00
Writer: Madi Diaz - Olivia Barton / Composers: Madi Diaz - Olivia Barton
01
Same Risk
Madi Diaz
Weird Faith
03:28
Writer: Madi Diaz - Charlie Hickey - Steph Jones / Composers: Madi Diaz - Charlie Hickey - Steph Jones
07
Nervous
Madi Diaz
History Of A Feeling
02:46
Writer: Madi Diaz - Jarrad Kritzstein / Composers: Madi Diaz - Jarrad Kritzstein
10
New Person, Old Place
Madi Diaz
History Of A Feeling
04:06
Writer: Madi Diaz - Jamie floyd - Emily West / Composers: Madi Diaz - Jamie floyd - Emily West
07
God Person
Madi Diaz
Weird Faith
03:38
Writer: Madi Diaz - Michael Jade - Jordyn Shellhart / Composers: Madi Diaz - Michael Jade - Jordyn Shellhart
01
give me hell
Sam Nelson Harris
why does everything make me cry?
03:05
Composers: Sam Nelson Harris - Madi Diaz
14
For Months Now (III)
Madi Diaz
Weird Faith (Deluxe)
04:07
Writer: Madi Diaz - Jamie Floyd - Stephen Wrabel / Composers: Madi Diaz - Jamie Floyd - Stephen Wrabel
02
Man In Me
Madi Diaz
History Of A Feeling
04:48
Writer: Madi Diaz - Steph Jones - Rayland Baxter / Composers: Madi Diaz - Steph Jones - Rayland Baxter
06
Kiss The Wall
Madi Diaz
Weird Faith
03:05
Writer: Madi Diaz - Sam Cohen - Savana Santos / Composers: Madi Diaz - Sam Cohen - Savana Santos
04
Resentment
Madi Diaz
History Of A Feeling
02:53
Writer: Madi Diaz - Stephen Wrabel - Jamie floyd / Composers: Madi Diaz - Stephen Wrabel - Jamie floyd
03
Girlfriend
Madi Diaz
Weird Faith
03:28
Writer: Madi Diaz - Konrad Snyder / Composers: Madi Diaz - Konrad Snyder
01
Love Looks Different
Madi Diaz
Love Looks Different
03:19
Writer: Madi Diaz - Jarrad Kritzstein / Composers: Madi Diaz - Jarrad Kritzstein
05
Get To Know Me
Madi Diaz
Weird Faith
03:40
Writer: Madi Diaz - Stephen Wilson / Composers: Madi Diaz - Stephen Wilson
01
Rage
Madi Diaz
History Of A Feeling
01:49
Writer: Madi Diaz - Konrad Snyder - Bobbie Allen / Composers: Madi Diaz - Konrad Snyder - Bobbie Allen
01
Be Careful
Madi Diaz
Be Careful
05:42
Writer: Patricia Griffin / Composers: Patricia Griffin
01
Kid On Christmas
Madi Diaz
Kid On Christmas
04:05
Writer: Madi Diaz - Carrie K - Charlie Martin / Composers: Madi Diaz - Carrie K - Charlie Martin
01
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Madi Diaz
While My Guitar Gently Weeps / Let It Down
03:23
Writer: Madi Diaz - The Guest and the Host
03
Burn
Madi Diaz
We Threw Our Hearts in the Fire
04:37
05
Nothing at All
Madi Diaz
Plastic Moon
02:59
01
Simp Song (Better with Madi)
Wild Rivers
Simp Song (Better with Madi)
03:06
Composers: Khalid Yassein - Madi Diaz
05
Think Of Me
Madi Diaz
History Of A Feeling
03:30
Writer: Madi Diaz - Konrad Snyder - Kelsey Byrne / Composers: Madi Diaz - Konrad Snyder - Kelsey Byrne
13
Worst Case Scenario
Madi Diaz
Weird Faith (Deluxe)
03:38
Writer: Madi Diaz - Jordyn Shellhart - Savana Santos / Composers: Madi Diaz - Jordyn Shellhart - Savana Santos
01
Tomorrow
Madi Diaz
Phantom
04:12
03
Crying In Public
Madi Diaz
History Of A Feeling
04:00
Writer: Madi Diaz - Stephen Wrabel - Jamie floyd / Composers: Madi Diaz - Stephen Wrabel - Jamie floyd
01
I Hope That It Snows (feat. Keegan DeWitt)
Madi Diaz
I Hope That It Snows (feat. Keegan DeWitt)
02:43
01
Gimme a Kiss
Madi Diaz
Plastic Moon
03:28
02
Stay Together
Madi Diaz
Phantom
03:43
01
Hangover
Madi Diaz
Hangover
03:35
Writer: Madi Diaz - Drew Pearson - Jesse Thomas / Composers: Madi Diaz - Drew Pearson - Jesse Thomas
04
To Be Alone
Madi Diaz
Plastic Moon
03:50
04
Hurting You
Madi Diaz
Weird Faith
03:29
Writer: Madi Diaz - Jarrad Kritzstein / Composers: Madi Diaz - Jarrad Kritzstein

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Albums
Anti
09-02-2024
Weird Faith
01
Same Risk
Madi Diaz
Weird Faith
03:28
Writer: Madi Diaz - Charlie Hickey - Steph Jones / Composers: Madi Diaz - Charlie Hickey - Steph Jones
02
Everything Almost
Madi Diaz
Weird Faith
03:00
Writer: Madi Diaz - Olivia Barton / Composers: Madi Diaz - Olivia Barton
03
Girlfriend
Madi Diaz
Weird Faith
03:28
Writer: Madi Diaz - Konrad Snyder / Composers: Madi Diaz - Konrad Snyder
04
Hurting You
Madi Diaz
Weird Faith
03:29
Writer: Madi Diaz - Jarrad Kritzstein / Composers: Madi Diaz - Jarrad Kritzstein
05
Get To Know Me
Madi Diaz
Weird Faith
03:40
Writer: Madi Diaz - Stephen Wilson / Composers: Madi Diaz - Stephen Wilson
06
Kiss The Wall
Madi Diaz
Weird Faith
03:05
Writer: Madi Diaz - Sam Cohen - Savana Santos / Composers: Madi Diaz - Sam Cohen - Savana Santos
07
God Person
Madi Diaz
Weird Faith
03:38
Writer: Madi Diaz - Michael Jade - Jordyn Shellhart / Composers: Madi Diaz - Michael Jade - Jordyn Shellhart
Access the complete album info (12 songs)
℗ 2024 Anti
09-02-2024
Weird Faith (Deluxe)
01
Same Risk
Madi Diaz
Weird Faith (Deluxe)
03:28
Writer: Madi Diaz - Charlie Hickey - Steph Jones / Composers: Madi Diaz - Charlie Hickey - Steph Jones
02
Everything Almost
Madi Diaz
Weird Faith (Deluxe)
03:00
Writer: Madi Diaz - Olivia Barton / Composers: Madi Diaz - Olivia Barton
03
Girlfriend
Madi Diaz
Weird Faith (Deluxe)
03:28
Writer: Madi Diaz - Konrad Snyder / Composers: Madi Diaz - Konrad Snyder
04
Hurting You
Madi Diaz
Weird Faith (Deluxe)
03:29
Writer: Madi Diaz - Jarrad Kritzstein / Composers: Madi Diaz - Jarrad Kritzstein
05
Get To Know Me
Madi Diaz
Weird Faith (Deluxe)
03:40
Writer: Madi Diaz - Stephen Wilson / Composers: Madi Diaz - Stephen Wilson
06
Kiss The Wall
Madi Diaz
Weird Faith (Deluxe)
03:05
Writer: Madi Diaz - Sam Cohen - Savana Santos / Composers: Madi Diaz - Sam Cohen - Savana Santos
07
God Person
Madi Diaz
Weird Faith (Deluxe)
03:38
Writer: Madi Diaz - Michael Jade - Jordyn Shellhart / Composers: Madi Diaz - Michael Jade - Jordyn Shellhart
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Anti
27-08-2021
History Of A Feeling
01
Rage
Madi Diaz
History Of A Feeling
01:49
Writer: Madi Diaz - Konrad Snyder - Bobbie Allen / Composers: Madi Diaz - Konrad Snyder - Bobbie Allen
02
Man In Me
Madi Diaz
History Of A Feeling
04:48
Writer: Madi Diaz - Steph Jones - Rayland Baxter / Composers: Madi Diaz - Steph Jones - Rayland Baxter
03
Crying In Public
Madi Diaz
History Of A Feeling
04:00
Writer: Madi Diaz - Stephen Wrabel - Jamie floyd / Composers: Madi Diaz - Stephen Wrabel - Jamie floyd
04
Resentment
Madi Diaz
History Of A Feeling
02:53
Writer: Madi Diaz - Stephen Wrabel - Jamie floyd / Composers: Madi Diaz - Stephen Wrabel - Jamie floyd
05
Think Of Me
Madi Diaz
History Of A Feeling
03:30
Writer: Madi Diaz - Konrad Snyder - Kelsey Byrne / Composers: Madi Diaz - Konrad Snyder - Kelsey Byrne
06
Woman In My Heart
Madi Diaz
History Of A Feeling
02:59
Writer: Madi Diaz - Sean Van Vleet / Composers: Madi Diaz - Sean Van Vleet
07
Nervous
Madi Diaz
History Of A Feeling
02:46
Writer: Madi Diaz - Jarrad Kritzstein / Composers: Madi Diaz - Jarrad Kritzstein
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Madi Diaz under exclusive license to Nettwerk Productions Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
30-09-2014
Phantom
01
Tomorrow
Madi Diaz
Phantom
04:12
02
Stay Together
Madi Diaz
Phantom
03:43
03
Mess
Madi Diaz
Phantom
03:12
04
Dancing in the Dark
Madi Diaz
Phantom
04:06
05
The First Time
Madi Diaz
Phantom
03:52
06
Ghost Rider
Madi Diaz
Phantom
04:08
07
The Other Side
Madi Diaz
Phantom
03:51
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23-10-2012
We Threw Our Hearts in the Fire
01
Talk to Me
Madi Diaz
We Threw Our Hearts in the Fire
05:12
02
The Loves Not Gone
Madi Diaz
We Threw Our Hearts in the Fire
03:38
03
Burn
Madi Diaz
We Threw Our Hearts in the Fire
04:37
04
Every Time I Reach Out
Madi Diaz
We Threw Our Hearts in the Fire
04:30
05
Gone Away
Madi Diaz
We Threw Our Hearts in the Fire
03:40
06
Look Right Through It
Madi Diaz
We Threw Our Hearts in the Fire
03:53
07
Heartbeat
Madi Diaz
We Threw Our Hearts in the Fire
03:42
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24-01-2012
Plastic Moon
01
Gimme a Kiss
Madi Diaz
Plastic Moon
03:28
02
Johnny
Madi Diaz
Plastic Moon
03:19
03
Love You Now
Madi Diaz
Plastic Moon
04:26
04
To Be Alone
Madi Diaz
Plastic Moon
03:50
05
Nothing at All
Madi Diaz
Plastic Moon
02:59
06
Heavy Heart
Madi Diaz
Plastic Moon
03:40
07
Let's Go
Madi Diaz
Plastic Moon
04:32
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EPs
Anti
04-03-2022
Same History, New Feelings
01
Resentment (New Feelings Version)
Madi Diaz
Same History, New Feelings
02:52
Writer: Madi Diaz - Jamie floyd - Stephen Wrabel / Composers: Madi Diaz - Jamie floyd - Stephen Wrabel
02
History Of A Feeling (New Feelings Version)
Madi Diaz
Same History, New Feelings
03:13
Writer: Madi Diaz - Natalie Hemby / Composers: Madi Diaz - Natalie Hemby
03
New Person, Old Place (New Feelings Version)
Madi Diaz
Same History, New Feelings
03:56
Writer: Emily West - Madi Diaz - Jamie floyd / Composers: Emily West - Madi Diaz - Jamie floyd
04
Forever (New Feelings Version)
Madi Diaz
Same History, New Feelings
04:05
Writer: Madi Diaz - Morgan Nagler / Composers: Madi Diaz - Morgan Nagler
2018 Dawson Records
02-08-2018
It's Okay To Be Alone
01
Dream Goes On Repeat
Madi Diaz
It's Okay To Be Alone
03:58
Writer: Madi Diaz
02
Taste of Rain
Madi Diaz
It's Okay To Be Alone
03:51
Writer: Madi Diaz
03
The One That You Want
Madi Diaz
It's Okay To Be Alone
03:22
Writer: Madi Diaz
04
Okay To Be Alone
Madi Diaz
It's Okay To Be Alone
04:07
Writer: Madi Diaz
Singles
℗ 2025 Wild Rivers Ltd. under exclusive license to Nettwerk Music Group Inc.
21-02-2025
Simp Song (Better with Madi)
01
Simp Song (Better with Madi)
Wild Rivers
Simp Song (Better with Madi)
03:06
Composers: Khalid Yassein - Madi Diaz
℗ 2025 Hardly Art / Pop Can Records
31-01-2025
HEAVYWEIGHT (feat. Madi Diaz)
01
HEAVYWEIGHT (feat. Madi Diaz)
ill peach
HEAVYWEIGHT (feat. Madi Diaz)
03:11
Writer: Jess Corazza - Pat Morrissey - Steph Jones - Jesse Schuster / Composers: ill peach
℗ 2024 Anti
25-11-2024
Kid On Christmas
01
Kid On Christmas
Madi Diaz
Kid On Christmas
04:05
Writer: Madi Diaz - Carrie K - Charlie Martin / Composers: Madi Diaz - Carrie K - Charlie Martin
℗ 2024 Anti
10-04-2024
One Less Question
01
One Less Question
Madi Diaz
One Less Question
03:10
Writer: Madi Diaz - Lennon Stella - Kate York / Composers: Madi Diaz - Lennon Stella - Kate York
2023 Mangled Pizza / This Fiction
14-04-2023
give me hell
01
give me hell
Sam Nelson Harris
give me hell
03:05
Composers: Sam Nelson Harris - Madi Diaz
Anti
07-11-2022
Be Careful
01
Be Careful
Madi Diaz
Be Careful
05:42
Writer: Patricia Griffin / Composers: Patricia Griffin
Anti
22-09-2022
Love Looks Different
01
Love Looks Different
Madi Diaz
Love Looks Different
03:19
Writer: Madi Diaz - Jarrad Kritzstein / Composers: Madi Diaz - Jarrad Kritzstein