Who is 'Kneel Diamond?'

 

• What is the name of your artist?
• Kneel Diamond
• Representation is important to your artist. Who are they keen to represent?
• Individuality, and being one's self. To everyone, but more particularly people like himself, Young men.
• Your artist is a celebrity and a style icon. How do they feel about this? What sets them apart?
• Kneel Diamond is aware of their presence as an icon, but plays it off modestly and brushes comments upon such aside as though their status is nothing. They are set apart from the norm, for this reason, despite their
• Since your artist is a style icon, what are they going to wear on the front cover of your magazine?
• The artist will be wearing the fox-creature onesie featured towards the latter part of the 'Baby you're a haunted house' music video, as it is both iconic visually, and it also feeds back into the advertised product.
• Your artist is targeting a niche audience. How do they do this,. and who is this audience?
• Though it is young men as the general audience, the more specific niche target audience would be pop-culture nerds who have a deep appreciation for intertextuality and so forth, as much as he as an artist does.
• What kind of magazine is interviewing your artist? 
• An independent, niche indie music magazine.
• Think about lexis and modes of address. How does your artist speak? Why?
• Kneel uses lexis that never flaunts himself too much, but he will passionately reply upon the subject matter of importance to him, and make his voice blatantly heard. He is inclined to using direct address when speaking of his audience, as to not speak down to them.
• Your artist is interested in intertextuality. What media products (eg films, bands, games, etc) do they make reference to? 
• As will be seen through mise-en-scene choices, namely through costume, it is evident that Kneel Diamond is extremely keen on paying homage to classic horror media, ranging from Scooby-Doo to the black and white slashers and monster flicks of the 1950s.
• What are your artist's ideological beliefs? What are they [passionate about? And how are they going to let the world know?
• Kneel Diamond is an advocate for not taking one's self too seriously,  with a firm stance that someone should be allowed to freely enjoy the things they care about whether that be a cause or style, or even a piece of media, and not letting others tell them otherwise. It is this unabashed honesty, that makes the artist very approachable by their audience.