Dounia - GREYGOOSE (produced by Skrillex)

What this video is

Released October 21, 2020 — deep within the COVID-19 pandemic's first year — GREYGOOSE represents the apex of pandemic-era indie artist self-sufficiency. Dounia Tazi, a Moroccan-American artist raised between Queens, NY and Morocco within a traditional Muslim household, leveraged an Instagram-to-music pipeline to build an independent fanbase. The Skrillex collaboration, born from a cold DM, exemplifies how social…

Why it matters

GREYGOOSE is a documented artifact of early-2020s alt-R&B's absorption of EDM production techniques. Skrillex, operating outside his signature dubstep idiom, provides trap-inflected 808 architecture and synth-vocal processing, while Dounia's Queens-inflected rap-singing anchors the track in the…

The director

Dounia Tazi (born March 31, 1997) is a Moroccan-American singer, songwriter, and model based in Queens, New York. She began releasing music commercially in 2017 with her debut EP 'Intro To' via Empire Distribution. She has released multiple EPs and albums…