26-year old Dominican singer, DaniLeigh, experienced backlash online after debuting a preview of her single, “Yellow Bone” on Instagram. In the now deleted video, the singer dances to the song, with the lyrics, “Yellow bone that’s what he wants!” *Sighs.* Oh Dani.
Immediately, the song triggered online conversations regarding colorism within the Black community and the questionable relationship between race and ethnicity within the Hispanic community.
Many social media users also speculated that “Yellow Bone” was a diss track towards Meme, DaBaby’s ex-girlfriend, as DaBaby is now dating DaniLeigh.
Despite these allegations, DaniLeigh responded to the backlash with a now deleted post, asking, “Why can’t I make a song for my light skin baddies? Why y’all think I’m hating on other colors when there are millions of songs speaking on all types… Why y’all so sensitive & take it personal… Gahhhh damn.”
She then added, “I’m Dominican… I’m Spanish, I’m black I’m white .. leave me alone.”
After the continued backlash, she went on Instagram to apologize for the song, interestingly wearing box braids and stating that she was “dating a whole chocolate man” as a reason to defend herself from the colorist accusations.
Twitter and other social media users did not respond well to her PR-scripted apology:
Bottom line, we did not need DaniLeigh’s “Yellow Bone” song, as it was overall: (1)sub-par, (2) felt like a dig at DaBaby’s ex-girfriend,and it was (3) a problematic, colorist “light skin anthem” by a woman who does not even consider herself black.
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