Daisy

* Standard
* Remix

"**Daisy**" is a song by American singer-songwriter and rapper Ashnikko. It was released through Parlophone and Warner Music Group on July 9, 2020, as the second single from Ashnikko's debut mixtape *DEMIDEVIL.* The song was written by Ashnikko and Slinger and produced by Slinger.

The music video for "Daisy" was released on August 7, 2020 and directed by Charlotte Rutherford. It was created in collaboration with Beats by Dre and TikTok, and heavily features user-generated content from TikTok. "Daisy" peaked at number 24 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming her first charting song as well as her first top-40 single in the United Kingdom. The song also peaked at number 3 on the *Billboard* Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart and number 74 on the Canadian Hot 100.

A remix of the song featuring Japanese vocaloid Hatsune Miku, "Daisy 2.0", was released on December 11, 2020.

## Background

Upon releasing "Daisy", Ashnikko revealed that she had been waiting to release the song for a year. In an interview with Genius, she revealed that Daisy had been her favorite song she had ever written at the time of its release. The album cover for Daisy features the character of Daisy herself. For the Daisy 2.0 cover and video, the character is seen as all grown up and with Hatsune Miku.

## Composition

"Daisy" has been described as an "empowering anthem", which combines pop-trap and alt-pop along with elements of EDM in its production. The song is written in the key of E♭ major. According to Ashnikko, "Daisy" was written from the perspective of the song's title character, Daisy, a rapist-killing vigilante and dominatrix who wears exclusively latex and platform shoes and leaves behind daisies as a calling card, hence the lyric, "I bite back, daisies on your nightstand".

## Theme

> "When [British producer] Thomas Slinger and I wrote this, we were like, “This is a fucking banger. This is a hit.” I rarely feel that way about my music. I like to have something visual to go along with the lyrics, like a character that I’m tapping into. Here I have Daisy, who is a vigilante and who wears latex, blue diamonds and massive, clear, icy platforms. She smashes the patriarchy and kills horrible men—think the Trump dudes of America. She looks amazing, and she leaves behind a daisy as a calling card."
>  *Ashnikko, via Apple Music*
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On the song, Ash dismantles the patriarchy and defies female stereotypes. They also reinterprets the image of the daisy, which has been used as a symbol for innocence and weakness in literature since Celtic times, to point out the fact that they, much like herself, are able to withstand harsh environments and bloom in the darkest of places. Additionally, some species of daisies close at night. Ash contrasts this by saying that she “blossoms in the moonlight,” further illustrating how she defies expectations.

## Lyrics

[Verse 1]

You don't wanna see me bratty

Pet the kitty, call me catty

Make your man call me Daddy

He talk too much, he's too chatty (Yeah, cool)

CEO, I'm savvy

Respect a bitch, I'm a maverick

Flexible, so elastic

But don't you dare bend a bitch backwards

[Pre-Chorus]

Fuck a princess, I'm a king

Bow down and kiss on my ring

Being a bitch is my kink

What the fuck else did you think?

Fuck a princess, I'm a king

Bow down and kiss on my ring

It's gonna hurt, it'll sting

Spitting up blood in the sink

[Chorus]

I'm crazy, but you like that, I bite back

Daisies on your nightstand, never forget

I blossom in the moonlight, screw eyes

Glacial with the blue ice, I'm terrifying

(I'm terrifying)

[Verse 2]

I'm no Cinderella, but I like the shoes

Big glass platforms, bitch, I'm choosy

Long blue hair, blue as a bruise

Only trust a fella for some light amusement

I'm no prey, but I am pursued

Pray for me, Nana, on the church's pews

No dickstraction can confuse me

Whiskey in my hip flask, nothing fruity

[Pre-Chorus]

Fuck a princess, I'm a king

Bow down and kiss on my ring

Being a bitch is my kink

What the fuck else did you think?

Fuck a princess, I'm a king

Bow down and kiss on my ring

It's gonna hurt, it'll sting

Spitting up blood in the sink

[Chorus]

I'm crazy, but you like that, I bite back

Daisies on your nightstand, never forget

I blossom in the moonlight, screw eyes

Glacial with the blue ice, I'm terrifying

I'm crazy, but you like that, I bite back

Daisies on your nightstand, never forget

I blossom in the moonlight, screw eyes

Glacial with the blue ice, I'm terrifying

[Outro]

La, la, la

La, la, la

La, la, la

La, la, la

I'm terrifying

La, la, la

La, la, la

La, la, la

La, la, la

I'm terrifying

## Music video

The music video for "Daisy" was premiered on August 7, 2020, and directed by Charlotte Rutherford. The video was produced in collaboration with Beats Electronics and TikTok. The video consists of four different variations of Ashnikko, with each set representing the four new Beats Powerbeats Pro Headphone colors; Glacier Blue, Spring Yellow, Cloud Pink and Lava Red. For the video, Beats Electronics launched their first TikTok-based campaign, the #BeatsDaisyChallenge, which was spread out across four separate weeks, one for each color used in the video. The challenge encouraged people to create user-generated content based on the theme of the week, and some of the videos were selected to be incorporated into the music video itself.

### Synopsis

The video begins with the "Glacier Blue" 90’s/y2k inspired theme, featuring Ashnikko balancing upon stacks of ice cubes in various positions, wearing a blue mesh unitard with metallic harnessing. The next theme that appears is the "Spring Yellow" version, which depicts her as a bumblebee sporting a striped bodysuit with spikes, sitting inside of a daisy. The "Cloud Pink" theme is shown next, and Ashnikko is shown tied up to a large screen, wearing long pink hair and a pink latex bodysuit. The fourth and final theme, "Lava Red", features Ashnikko in a red latex bodysuit in front of a chili pepper-themed backdrop, riding on top of a large plastic replica of a chili pepper which resembles a mechanical bull. The video also shows Ashnikko wearing the Beats Powerbeats Pro Headphones in each scene, and includes many of the TikTok videos created using the #BeatsDaisyChallenge hashtag.

### 2.0. Music video

In the video for Daisy 2.0., Ashnikko is animated in CGI and is dancing in a post-apocalyptic city with Hatsune Miku, and later in a swamp. During Hatsune Miku’s verse, she is shown floating near some trees without Ashnikko, and later floating in a bathtub filled with green water, with Ashnikko under water. Then, they are shown inside a green ball in space, and the video ends with them on an island floating on air.

## Trivia

* Daisy is favourite Ashnikko's track from DEMIDEVIL.
* Daisy is nominated at VMA 2021 in the category "Push Performance Of The Year'' . [1]
* On July 24, 2021 the official music video for Daisy got 100 million views. This is Ash's first music video which got 100 milion views. [2]
* This song is also nominated to the Ivor Novello Award.