{"id":40300,"date":"2025-08-01T21:34:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T21:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/40300\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T21:34:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T21:34:14","slug":"after-winning-the-polaris-music-prize-debby-friday-bet-on-herself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/40300\/","title":{"rendered":"After winning the Polaris Music Prize, Debby Friday bet on herself"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Debby Friday first joined Q’s Tom Power<\/a> for an interview in 2023, her debut album, Good Luck, didn’t just shake up the music scene, it shot her straight into the spotlight.<\/p>\n

That album ended up winning the Polaris Music Prize, which brought Friday a lot more attention and tons of new fans. But when she sat down to write her latest record, The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life, she made a conscious decision to do things differently. Instead of leaning into the experimental sound she had become known for, she wanted to make a more pop-influenced record.<\/p>\n

“I have made experimental work pretty much the majority of my career,” she says. “That’s like my bread and butter. But what I wanted to do was figure out a way to kind of, I would say, bridge the gap between experimental and then also accessible\u2026. I was like, ‘What would a Debby Friday pop song sound like?'”<\/p>\n

WATCH | Debby Friday’s full interview with Tom Power: <\/p>\n

Besides making her music sound catchy, Friday found that the biggest challenge of writing a pop song was that it required her to tap into her vulnerable side.<\/p>\n

“I think a lot of people, when they meet me through my music, they see the hard side, the rougher side, the side that’s more like this powerful \u2014 can I say bitch? \u2014 this powerful bitch,” she tells Power. “But that side, I think, came up more as a self-defense mechanism that I developed earlier on in my life.”<\/p>\n

After winning the Polaris Music Prize, Friday made the decision to be self-managed so she could have complete control over her creative vision. She wrote the song Bet On Me about taking that leap.<\/p>\n

“Something that is really important to me is just being true to myself and being true to my vision,” she says. ” I have a very strong vision. I know exactly what I want to get out of this career. And a big part of that is this honesty \u2014 honesty and clarity in self-expression, and that’s not always going to look like what other people’s ideas are.”<\/p>\n

WATCH | Official video for Bet On Me: <\/p>\n

The full interview with Debby Friday is available on our YouTube channel<\/a> and on our podcast, Q with Tom Power<\/a>. Listen and follow wherever you get your podcasts.<\/p>\n

Interview with\u00a0Debby Friday\u00a0produced by\u00a0Mitch Pollock.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Debby Friday first joined Q’s Tom Power for an interview in 2023, her debut album, Good Luck,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-40300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}