No Sunday evening is complete without some new music and glow-in-the-dark vampire teeth.
Sophomore music entertainment major Tia Baylor released her first music video,“GONE,” to an audience of friends and supporters on Oct. 28. This was her first music video presented at Bradley.
The event began with a mourning of Baylor, and a welcoming of her stage presence: Lady Rosze.
“Lady comes from my mom. She really tried to instill that in me and my sisters. She tried to make sure we knew what it meant to be a lady. But I kind of took my own meaning from that. To me, a lady is someone that is confident and unapologetic about who they are, and that’s what I am,” Baylor explained to the crowd.
She held a short-lived costume contest, handing out prizes to those who came dressed from characters that ranged from vampires to Bob and Linda Belcher.
Before the screening of the video, she opened the floor to questions. When asked why it took a year to release any music, Baylor said, “I’ve always been afraid.”
Students then counted down the seconds until the premiere of Lady Rosze’s video.
The screening featured Baylor seducing a male character in a candlelit room covered in rose petals, a possible allusion to the second half of her stage name.
“An old boyfriend in middle school used to call me ‘rose petal’ and it just kind of stuck with me,” Baylor said. “I dropped the petal and liked ‘Rose.’ I added the ‘z’ because I just wanted to be different. A lot of YouTubers and people have the word Rose in their name, but nobody has the ‘z’.”
The man then takes the life of Baylor after he bares his vampire fangs, allowing the Lady Rosze persona to be born.
“The old me is dead. Tia Baylor is dead. Lady Rosze is alive,” Baylor said.
As the music faded out, the room erupted in applause and students lined up to take pictures with Baylor before grabbing a Halloween treat on the way out.
Sophomore advertising major Brandon Towns produced the music video.
“[The music video] is way better than what I thought it would be,” Baylor said.
Overall, those who attended the event seemed as impressed as Baylor was with the talent of the producer as well as the artist.
“I loved [the music video]. I love her style,” Taryn Gintner, television arts major said. “My friend is a music major, and I just wanted to come to support everybody here. I think more people should come out to stuff like this.”
“I think she worked really hard to make this happen and I’m really proud of her and how far she’s taken this,” said Miranda Dianovsky, a freshman environmental science major. “Support the local artists, please.”
Lady Rosze’s music video “GONE” is now available for viewing on her YouTube channel “Lady Rosze.” You can follow Lady Rosze on her Facebook page and her Instagram @rosze_.
