DaniLeigh's Apology for her ‘Yellow Bone’ Controversy Only Made It Worse

Jan 26

Seems like Dani Leigh just can’t win.

Singer DaniLeigh has been at the center of a social media storm after posting a snippet of her song “Yellow Bone” last week. In the since-deleted video, the singer bops to her track, mouthing along to the lyrics, “Yellow Bone is what he wants…yellow bone is what he wants."

In a new video posted to Instagram, she said:

“I think people twisted it into thinking, like, I’m trying to bash another woman, another skin tone, that was never my intention. I wasn’t brought up like that, I never looked at my skin as a privilege. I never looked at me as ‘I’m better than somebody because of my skin tone.”
“I see brown skin women flaunt their skin all the time in music, why can’t I talk about mine? If you look at me, I’m light-skinned, I’m a yellow bone. In my opinion, that’s just what I am. So, it wasn’t something that I looked at so deeply. Which, I can see why people will take it deeply, so I understand and I’m sorry that I wasn’t sensitive to the topic when I wrote my comment ‘why are you guys taking so personal?’ Because, it can be a personal thing to certain people, because colorist is a real thing so I do get it. But I’m not that. I’m not a colorist. I’m not a racist. I date a whole chocolate man. I have beautiful dark-skinned friends.”

‘Yellow Bone’ was met with criticism, claiming that the song was colorism. However, this is not the first time that she has apologized. She previously did so in a series of tweets. In them she claimed she can’t be cancelled.