NASTY INSPIRATION Gabrielle de Gama (14) released her debut single Nasty last month. The catchy pop song is about bullying and was written by her and produced by Gino Lee.
The Joburg teen, who started high school last year, decided to open the track after being cyberbullied by her classmates during lockdown.
“I’d just joined a new school and I hadn’t met any of my classmates face to face,” Gabrielle says. Her fellow students went through her social media pages, added her to a WhatsApp group and called her names.
She also experienced bullying in Grade 4 after joining a new school, when she was body-shamed and mocked for having natural hair. All these experiences inspired her to write her song.
“At the time I could never really win, and that’s what Nasty is about. It’s about sending out the message that bullying is not okay.”
It took her two hours to write the lyrics, and two months to arrange the song to record it. “I felt like I was releasing how I was feeling on the inside. [Writing Nasty] made me feel very peaceful.”
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