Fawn

Fawn, I saw your post today on Instagram and I have a lot of things to say.

The very first thing I want to do is clear my name and set the facts straight.

I did not steal your songs- I did not steal your visuals- and I’ve never known the details of your fallout or deal with Niles.

Our teams have been actively discussing this over the past few days since we became aware of your claims - so I’m very confused at your objectives here. If the intent was to create some sort of conversation using my name, I feel incredibly hurt and feel I have no other choice than to stand up for myself.

I met Niles in early 2025, I reached out to him through Instagram DMs after I had heard his production on one of your songs that I found through Tik Tok. Yes- I discovered him through your song, but often, that is how producers are found, you like other songs that they’ve made. I wasn’t trying to recreate anyone’s music- a lot of producers that I work with to this day have produced songs that I also enjoy. Here is a screenshot of me doing just that:

We linked up in real life and made some amazing music that had me excited to keep working with him.. He mentions that he is helping to creatively develop your artist project. I think that’s cool- so I follow you. I do it because at the time, I wanted to support how excited Niles was about you. You didn’t follow back- and once Niles had told me that you no longer worked together, I felt like there was no other reason to follow you.

Over the course of our relationship, Niles sent me a lot of instrumentals that I believed to be original creations. When Niles sent me these two instrumentals, I had absolutely no knowledge that you wrote on top of these prior. He didn’t tell me. For my album HALO, most of the songs that we made together were from scratch in the studio. Niles had also sent me instrumentals, it is a way that we work together when we are not physically together. Screenshots below:

This is the screenshot for COPYCAT.

This is the screenshot for LOOK UP. I also added additional production to the song LOOK UP.

I didn’t know you used these instrumentals. Yes- to my knowledge, your team reached out a few days ago, but since then, it has been an active conversation to resolve the claims that we had just become aware of. The first time I ever heard your versions of these songs was when you publicly blasted me online today. My intention has always been to credit the appropriate people. There is a process to figuring these things out and we have been working with your team to do that.

I’m going to be incredibly patient and take the higher ground here. As an artist who has made music that could never come out due to falling outs/legal/financial reasons, I understand and have FELT the same pain you must feel. To hear an instrumental that you initially wrote on, come out on someone else’s project- I can see it from your shoes completely. It would upset me too. I have no idea what the deal between you and Niles entails, but as someone who has also received deals that made me feel like shit, if it was predatory, then I do NOT stand for that. And to be clear, I would and will never work with an individual who I knew was exploiting or attempting to exploit/mistreat artists. I understand why you have spite against me, but I wish this was handled differently. If I had KNOWN that the beats Niles was sending me were old instrumentals that you once wrote to, I would’ve never worked on them.

(Also FYI, the song COPYCAT is written about my friend Yao, not you. Yao is the prettiest human being and the life of the party in my eyes. I loved the braids in her hair that she wore at this festival, she poured shots straight into my mouth and we got fucked up on a Sunday. The song was about how I wish I could be as cool as her one day. That’s what the lyrics literally ARE word for word, so take a listen)

Let’s talk about creative concepts next.

Before I go into details, if you’re reading this, I want you to pull up me and Fawn’s instagram feeds side by side. You’ll come to see that our artist projects are very different. It is so incredibly unfair of you to cherry pick your “evidence” and come after me for a visual world that me and my creative director have spent so much time building. I stand by my visual aesthetic, because it is the purest reflection of me as a human.

BREAKUP:

You claim that I stole your concept from an UNRELEASED music video that Niles starred in. The music video is literally unreleased. I have never seen it, and Niles has never shown me it.

First off, Niles has nothing to do with my creative direction. He is a producer. He is not involved in my creative direction.

Ally, my creative director, and I, are the only two people in the entire world that oversee visuals, aesthetic, and everything else for the Tiffany Day project. I’ve never seen that unreleased video in my goddamn life and that’s on my mom, my dad, my brother, my grandma, my childhood dog Cici, and everything I stand for.

You wanna know what inspired the gun symbol in the BREAKUP visuals?

The Hellp. Their music video for LL/STUNN was my inspo.

Ally and I chatted about how we enjoyed how their bodies were being used like objects. So the hand symbol of the gun came out of inspiration from this video. The video itself follows a deeper plot line that is supposed to reflect relationship OCD (what the song is about). You talk about how the title of our songs is so similar, yours is called BREAK YOU (I believe) and mine is called BREAKUP. The thing is, my writing is my diary. BREAKUP is called BREAKUP because of the story behind the song. The song was about me and my intense struggles with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

The man in my video resembles the obsession in OCD. Me walking across town trying to shoot him with my nose bleeding resembles how your inner thoughts can hurt you when reality is all fine and well. Every shot from my hand gun is a compulsion, and my imagination shows him suffering because I think I’m helping myself, but in reality, I’m only hurting myself. By the end of the video, when I am destroyed on the ground and when he walks out clean, it is supposed to resemble what happens when you give into your compulsions.

The shipping containers? Not to dox where I live, but we filmed that shot RIGHT outside my apartment. Our plan was to shoot in an alleyway. There is an alleyway that leads up to my parking garage. There just so happened to be shipping containers in the alleyway. We didn’t deliberately seek out shipping containers, and even if we did, it had absolutely nothing to do with you. BECAUSE I’VE NEVER SEEN YOUR UNRELEASED VIDEO. IT IS AN UNRELEASED VIDEO.

I’ve attached Ally and I’s Figma board plotting the entire visuals of this video below:

TELL ME WHAT I DID COVER ART:

You claim I stole your concept of lying on the ground with snow. With respect Fawn, I don’t think you invented lying on the ground with snow. I’ve got receipts that show every single reference photo Ally and I have ever pulled for the visual world of this song attached below.

The reference photo is literally just another picture of a girl (that is NOT you) lying in snow. How are you going to trademark lying on the ground when there are a crazy amount of photos of girls lying on the ground in snow? As soon as you type in “girl on ground snow aesthetic” which I did for my inspiration, there are just countless photos on Pinterest. See below.

On top of that, the actual position of my body on the ground was inspired by these reference photos.

It’s called fetal position, and you don’t own that either- babies invented that one.

For all the other ones, I’m frankly just not going to respond to it in depth. Your screenshots compared me and you both laying on a BED and running around in the OCEAN. Oh, and also, just plain out WATER. These are objects and places people go to every day to find INSPIRATION, swim and rest. In the bed photoshoot, we actually shot it in my friend’s grandparents home. We didn’t shoot just on the bed, we actually shot in many different areas, including a beautiful grand bathtub and bathroom.

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The video you made comparing us looks compelling, but as soon as you go on PINTEREST and search up anything remotely pertaining to this visual world, you will find countless images that strike the exact same concepts. Ally and I use pinterest for inspiration for our visual world. And if you compare our artist projects as a whole, they are aesthetically simply different. Art is putting our own influences and artistic spins on things we see in our everyday world. Respectfully, you are not an influence to me.

I don’t know what went down between you and Niles, I welcome a conversation between us if you feel like there is more I should know. I feel for you, and I truly mean that from one artist to another. To hear beats that you once wrote on come out- your feelings of hurt are valid. But I don’t believe this was the right way to address it all. I was never malicious in my creations, and once again, I thought everything was fine.

I stand by what I do, I’m so proud to call myself an artist. You may see me having some success now, but know that what you see is not the result of me “stealing” your beats or “ripping” your visuals, but rather, 8 years of hard work and perseverance even when times were tough. 8 years of funding my art and music through my own personal bank account, 8 years of struggling to pay my rent, 8 years of crying my eyes out and wanting to give up.

It is truly sad that you’ve decided to bring this up the day after my album came out. My manager responded to you last week, and suggested that lawyers get involved to resolve it.

I’m sad that I had to spend my first day off in over a month typing all of this out to clear my name. I hope this provides some clarity and that we may figure the rest out.

• Tiffany