December 25, 2023 • 11 mins
Celebrating her smash w Calvin Harris hitting #1 on the dance charts in only four weeks, Eliza Rose shares how "Body Moving" was born. She also shares what's next for her in 2024!
We also get to know Eliza better w #FinkysFirsts!!
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We also get to know Eliza better w #FinkysFirsts!!
Find out about:
- what she first wanted to be growing up
- the first show she did
- the first song she wrote
- the first thing she does on show days
- the first thing she does after her show
- the first thing she does to get ready for bed
Follow: @AmericasDance30 on all socials!
Count down the biggest dance songs in the country every week with Brian Fink on America’s Dance 30; listen on stations around the world!
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(00:00):
Hey, a d thirty fam It'sBrian Fink just went out to pop on
really quick and say thank you somuch for all the support with America's Dance
thirty this year. It has beenan incredible twenty twenty three. Spending with
you. Every week. You couldcheck America's Dance thirty dot com for all
the stations, days and times thatyou can listen and count down the biggest
(00:20):
dance songs in the country every weekon America's Dance thirty. Hope you have
an incredible holiday, an amazing newYear, and cheers to a great twenty
twenty four for all of us.All Right, how are you, Eliza,
I'm good. How are you?I'm good. It's so great finally
meeting you. Thank you very much. Nice with you too, babes,
(00:40):
and I appreciate you taking the time. I know that everybody who's trying to,
you know, calm down with theholidays, so I really appreciate you
taking the time chat with us,No problem. Same to you, babes.
Thanks so much. Dance counting downthe biggest dance songs in the country.
(01:08):
This is America's Dance thirty, ElizaRose. It is so awesome.
Finally meeting you. Welcome to America'sDance thirty for the first time. Thank
you, maanma, thank you forhaving me. I love your hair.
By the way, I almost didthe same, but it would have been
really awkward if I did. Toput it off. Darland, don't worry.
(01:29):
Thank you well. I can't waitto talk about this smash Body Moving,
especially since it only took like fourweeks to get to number one,
which is incredible. Congratulations, Thankyou, thank you so much. Now,
before we talk all about Body Movingand find out how it was born,
(01:51):
let's get to know Eliza Rose firsta little better with Finkey's first.
I always love finding out the originstory of artists. Now, is it
true you started working at a recordshop when you were only like fourteen?
Yeah, fifteen. It was frommy work experience, and then I just
(02:15):
kind of stayed there on and offfor ten years, going from like part
time at Union College and then fulltime after that. Now, did anybody
like looking ahead now to all theDJs, did anybody come through that record
shop that you remember? I feellike for tech people like that, a
lot of like kind of up andcoming people that were like Biger much later,
(02:35):
I remember their faces. So thatwas quite cool. We're seeing that
up and coming DJs come through theirlike at an early stage. I'm sure
Kerrie Charlie came in once, butI can't be sure it looked like him
well before the record shop. Whenyou were growing up, was there something
else you first wanted to be whenyou grew up? Or was music always
(02:57):
it? Singing was my original kindof goal, and then I went into
DJ and then back to singing.But I think if I didn't, I
might have gone into teaching. LikeI really enjoyed teaching and working with kids,
so I probably do something like that. Now, what was the story
with the parlaying from DJing to singing? So I originally started singing and I
kind of fell out a little bitof love with it. I was finding
(03:21):
it a little bit hard work andit was kind of like I didn't have
a manager. And back in thatkind of time when I was starting out,
I was like, say, likenineteen twenty and I felt kind of
old, which is now looking backridiculous, But there was a kind of
a real ageism towards singers. Ithink about ten years ago, and if
you kind of hadn't achieved something Ialways say like X fact for example,
(03:44):
like the OAP section was like overtwenty fives, which is obviously completely ridiculous,
and I think are kind of wayof looking at age and musicians as
a society has really really changed.And so I think as I got older
and more secure in myself and moresecure my songwriting, I got back into
it and I felt much I enjoyedit a lot more. Basically, well,
(04:05):
I'm so glad you fell back inlove with it. You've done shows
all over the world, You're goingto be ringing in twenty twenty four in
Glasgow. But do you remember thefirst show you ever did? The first
like non pub gig I ever didwas a barkled like Oslo in Hackney,
(04:29):
which was quite funny because I playedin Oslo a couple of weeks ago,
like the actual place, and sowhen I was telling my friends, oh,
I'm going to play in Oslo,they were like, You're going back
to Oslo and I was like,no, no, the one, the
actual I was low So that wasquite funny. But I just played in
a lot of pub gigs really,just like playing funk and soul seven inches
around different pubs in Hackney for likereally cheap, like fifty pounds for like
(04:54):
seven hours. But I think it'sgood. You've got to cut your teeth
and I enjoyed it absolutely. Nowdid you teach your how did DJ?
Or did somebody teach you? Itold myself out to DJ really as I
got older and I started getting kindof like or not older, but like
into the game or getting bigger gigs. Then I went in and kind of
worked with people. I had acouple of lessons because I think when you're
(05:15):
self taught, you can pick upquite bad, bad habits. But at
the beginning I didn't really do thatuntil like about six seven years after I've
been DJ in. Well, congratulationson all the success you've had with your
music. It's pretty amazing. Imean, baddest of them all went number
(05:39):
one on the UK charts and youbecame the first UK DJ since so Nique
back in two thousand. Crazy.That is mind blowing. No, isn't
it just crazy? Really really mad? I mean it's big shoes to step
into. Obviously, Snik is absolutelyamazing, but I think it was good
(06:00):
that it bought some more awareness toit. And I do think since Vota
there's been quite a big change,and you're seeing a lot more kind of
like big names in the charts nowwhen it comes to Darce music and women.
So that's really great. And ofcourse now with body Moving. But
do you remember the first song youever wrote? The first? Next thing?
(06:20):
I dread to think it was probablysomething really emo and like before I
even like Kiss the Boy about beingdepressed and in love. Most likely it
was, but yeah, it wasdefinitely like you know, teenage angst.
For sure. That's awesome. Nowon show days, what's the first thing
you like to do? And showdays, I'm like quite a big prepper,
(06:42):
like I do, like like togo with the vibe and go with
the flow. Definitely somewhat, butI like to give myself some constraints,
and so I pick up my records. Maybe I'll rip a few of my
vinyls if I don't want to play, if I don't want to say,
if I'm doing a bit festival stageor something like that, I don't necessarily
want to bring my records because sometimesthe technicus are not set up. So
I'll whip whatever records I kind ofwant to play that day, and I'll
(07:03):
have like a kind of general vibeof what I want to express that evening,
and so yeah, just preparation,really going into record box and making
sure everything's organized. I get quitenervous when I DJ, and I get
a little bit of imposter syndrome.So in order to tackle that, I
like to be quite prepared. Ilove it, and I love that you've
(07:24):
got the vinyls still behind you.That's amazing to see it. The small
little but that's what happened ten yearsin a record show. You know what
I mean? Absolutely? Now,what's the first thing you like to do
after your shows? After my show? Go to bed? Usually because I'm
(07:45):
absolutely exhausted. It depends I am. If I got a gig the next
day, I try to be goodand I make sure like I want to
make sure I'm bringing the good,correct energy for the next day. Otherwise,
if I'm with my friends and I'mpartying, shut to keep the straightaway.
Wow. Well, speaking of goingto bed, finally, in Thinky's
first in honor of body moving goingnumber one, you know, when the
(08:11):
lights go down and the moon comesup, what's the first thing you do
when you're getting ready for bed?Party? Yeah? Ready for I was
going to say okay, okay,okay. When I get ready for bed,
I actually I'm quite put the eyemask, get the air plug,
(08:31):
spray my pillow of lavender, andthen I can finally settle down. But
yeah, definitely, I love mylittle pillow spray. Does the spray help?
I love it because I'm a HDAromas really helped me. So if
I'm feeling a little bit jittery,a little bit of lavender and I'm out
like a light, Wow, Imight have to try that. Well,
let's talk about this smash. Howwas Body Moving born? What You Moving
(08:56):
was born? With? Kvin Harrisbasically hit him up in my d MS.
I was at ada Adu and Ikind of just thought this is obviously
a fake profile because after a whileyou start getting following you. So I
was like, okay, it's obviouslyfake. And then I clicked in it
and I was like, okay,this looks kind of legit. So I'm
going to reply and yeah, thatwas it, really, And I think
(09:16):
I said, oh, I'll getback. I'll get something back to you
within like a week. And Iwanted to make sure that I was coming
correct, as you know, it'sKevin Harris. Yeah, yeah, you
don't want to let that opportunity go. So I hired that studio in ad,
which was impossible, really difficult todo because every producer and DJ in
the world is there at one time. Managed to track one down, wrote
(09:39):
the song and yeah the rest.I wrote three different ideas for the track,
and then he pieced together like maybetwo of them, and that's how
it was born. Wow, that'samazing, and it's so incredible how quickly
it came together. I mean itwas it was a it was a previous
idea, so it was actually meantthis last one. No no, no.
So it's actually been sitting there fora while. But I had some
(10:00):
other releases already scheduled, which Iwanted to make sure, like I told
a little bit of a story Icouldn't. I didn't particularly want to fullow
boat a straight with Cavin Harris,because I mean, where do you really
go from that? Right? Iwanted to make sure that there was a
little bit of a story told.And I was standing on my own two
feet. And now I think it'sjust come at the perfect time. I
love that. Now. Something Ilove to find out about songs is how
(10:22):
many different versions there are from whenyou start working on it, all the
tweaking that goes on to when youfinally put it out. Do you remember
what the final V was of BodyMoving? You're gonna have to ask Calvin
that I sent my bit and Iwas happy with what I said. And
then if he tweaked tweaky tree ky, tweky here and there, that was
on him. But for me,I was I was good with what I
said straight away. Let me callCalvin really quickly and find out, Well,
(10:48):
congratulations on Body Moving. That isso amazing. Looking forward to twenty
twenty four, what's next for ElizaRose. I'm going to be putting out
like a lot more bodies of worknext year, which I'm I'm really excited
about. I've got a track withMJ Cole coming out. I've got a
neo soul track, so you're goingto kind of hear that more jazz and
soul style stuff that I really feelin love with at the beginning. And
(11:11):
yeah, just more EPs. Really. I'm working with some great artists from
America called Jeb and Ace MoMA andhopefully a woman called Bambie. So there's
all different people that I'm kind ofchatting to and just kind of opening up
the spectrum of stuff that I putout. As much as I love dancing
music, I'm really looking forward toto sharing the more soul and jazz side
of that as well well. Ihave a feeling that twenty twenty four is
(11:33):
going to be another amazing year forEliza Rose. Than It's great meeting you,
congratulations, Thank you so much foryour time on America's Dance thirty.
Thank you for having me so much. Honestly, it's been lovely to chat
America's Dancer counting down the biggest dancesongs in the country am America's Dance thirty
Hey, a d thirty fam It'sBrian Fink just went out to pop on
really quick and say thank you somuch for all the support with America's Dance
thirty this year. It has beenan incredible twenty twenty three. Spending with
you. Every week. You couldcheck America's Dance thirty dot com for all
the stations, days and times thatyou can listen and count down the biggest
(00:20):
dance songs in the country every weekon America's Dance thirty. Hope you have
an incredible holiday, an amazing newYear, and cheers to a great twenty
twenty four for all of us.All Right, how are you, Eliza,
I'm good. How are you?I'm good. It's so great finally
meeting you. Thank you very much. Nice with you too, babes,
(00:40):
and I appreciate you taking the time. I know that everybody who's trying to,
you know, calm down with theholidays, so I really appreciate you
taking the time chat with us,No problem. Same to you, babes.
Thanks so much. Dance counting downthe biggest dance songs in the country.
(01:08):
This is America's Dance thirty, ElizaRose. It is so awesome.
Finally meeting you. Welcome to America'sDance thirty for the first time. Thank
you, maanma, thank you forhaving me. I love your hair.
By the way, I almost didthe same, but it would have been
really awkward if I did. Toput it off. Darland, don't worry.
(01:29):
Thank you well. I can't waitto talk about this smash Body Moving,
especially since it only took like fourweeks to get to number one,
which is incredible. Congratulations, Thankyou, thank you so much. Now,
before we talk all about Body Movingand find out how it was born,
(01:51):
let's get to know Eliza Rose firsta little better with Finkey's first.
I always love finding out the originstory of artists. Now, is it
true you started working at a recordshop when you were only like fourteen?
Yeah, fifteen. It was frommy work experience, and then I just
(02:15):
kind of stayed there on and offfor ten years, going from like part
time at Union College and then fulltime after that. Now, did anybody
like looking ahead now to all theDJs, did anybody come through that record
shop that you remember? I feellike for tech people like that, a
lot of like kind of up andcoming people that were like Biger much later,
(02:35):
I remember their faces. So thatwas quite cool. We're seeing that
up and coming DJs come through theirlike at an early stage. I'm sure
Kerrie Charlie came in once, butI can't be sure it looked like him
well before the record shop. Whenyou were growing up, was there something
else you first wanted to be whenyou grew up? Or was music always
(02:57):
it? Singing was my original kindof goal, and then I went into
DJ and then back to singing.But I think if I didn't, I
might have gone into teaching. LikeI really enjoyed teaching and working with kids,
so I probably do something like that. Now, what was the story
with the parlaying from DJing to singing? So I originally started singing and I
kind of fell out a little bitof love with it. I was finding
(03:21):
it a little bit hard work andit was kind of like I didn't have
a manager. And back in thatkind of time when I was starting out,
I was like, say, likenineteen twenty and I felt kind of
old, which is now looking backridiculous, But there was a kind of
a real ageism towards singers. Ithink about ten years ago, and if
you kind of hadn't achieved something Ialways say like X fact for example,
(03:44):
like the OAP section was like overtwenty fives, which is obviously completely ridiculous,
and I think are kind of wayof looking at age and musicians as
a society has really really changed.And so I think as I got older
and more secure in myself and moresecure my songwriting, I got back into
it and I felt much I enjoyedit a lot more. Basically, well,
(04:05):
I'm so glad you fell back inlove with it. You've done shows
all over the world, You're goingto be ringing in twenty twenty four in
Glasgow. But do you remember thefirst show you ever did? The first
like non pub gig I ever didwas a barkled like Oslo in Hackney,
(04:29):
which was quite funny because I playedin Oslo a couple of weeks ago,
like the actual place, and sowhen I was telling my friends, oh,
I'm going to play in Oslo,they were like, You're going back
to Oslo and I was like,no, no, the one, the
actual I was low So that wasquite funny. But I just played in
a lot of pub gigs really,just like playing funk and soul seven inches
around different pubs in Hackney for likereally cheap, like fifty pounds for like
(04:54):
seven hours. But I think it'sgood. You've got to cut your teeth
and I enjoyed it absolutely. Nowdid you teach your how did DJ?
Or did somebody teach you? Itold myself out to DJ really as I
got older and I started getting kindof like or not older, but like
into the game or getting bigger gigs. Then I went in and kind of
worked with people. I had acouple of lessons because I think when you're
(05:15):
self taught, you can pick upquite bad, bad habits. But at
the beginning I didn't really do thatuntil like about six seven years after I've
been DJ in. Well, congratulationson all the success you've had with your
music. It's pretty amazing. Imean, baddest of them all went number
(05:39):
one on the UK charts and youbecame the first UK DJ since so Nique
back in two thousand. Crazy.That is mind blowing. No, isn't
it just crazy? Really really mad? I mean it's big shoes to step
into. Obviously, Snik is absolutelyamazing, but I think it was good
(06:00):
that it bought some more awareness toit. And I do think since Vota
there's been quite a big change,and you're seeing a lot more kind of
like big names in the charts nowwhen it comes to Darce music and women.
So that's really great. And ofcourse now with body Moving. But
do you remember the first song youever wrote? The first? Next thing?
(06:20):
I dread to think it was probablysomething really emo and like before I
even like Kiss the Boy about beingdepressed and in love. Most likely it
was, but yeah, it wasdefinitely like you know, teenage angst.
For sure. That's awesome. Nowon show days, what's the first thing
you like to do? And showdays, I'm like quite a big prepper,
(06:42):
like I do, like like togo with the vibe and go with
the flow. Definitely somewhat, butI like to give myself some constraints,
and so I pick up my records. Maybe I'll rip a few of my
vinyls if I don't want to play, if I don't want to say,
if I'm doing a bit festival stageor something like that, I don't necessarily
want to bring my records because sometimesthe technicus are not set up. So
I'll whip whatever records I kind ofwant to play that day, and I'll
(07:03):
have like a kind of general vibeof what I want to express that evening,
and so yeah, just preparation,really going into record box and making
sure everything's organized. I get quitenervous when I DJ, and I get
a little bit of imposter syndrome.So in order to tackle that, I
like to be quite prepared. Ilove it, and I love that you've
(07:24):
got the vinyls still behind you.That's amazing to see it. The small
little but that's what happened ten yearsin a record show. You know what
I mean? Absolutely? Now,what's the first thing you like to do
after your shows? After my show? Go to bed? Usually because I'm
(07:45):
absolutely exhausted. It depends I am. If I got a gig the next
day, I try to be goodand I make sure like I want to
make sure I'm bringing the good,correct energy for the next day. Otherwise,
if I'm with my friends and I'mpartying, shut to keep the straightaway.
Wow. Well, speaking of goingto bed, finally, in Thinky's
first in honor of body moving goingnumber one, you know, when the
(08:11):
lights go down and the moon comesup, what's the first thing you do
when you're getting ready for bed?Party? Yeah? Ready for I was
going to say okay, okay,okay. When I get ready for bed,
I actually I'm quite put the eyemask, get the air plug,
(08:31):
spray my pillow of lavender, andthen I can finally settle down. But
yeah, definitely, I love mylittle pillow spray. Does the spray help?
I love it because I'm a HDAromas really helped me. So if
I'm feeling a little bit jittery,a little bit of lavender and I'm out
like a light, Wow, Imight have to try that. Well,
let's talk about this smash. Howwas Body Moving born? What You Moving
(08:56):
was born? With? Kvin Harrisbasically hit him up in my d MS.
I was at ada Adu and Ikind of just thought this is obviously
a fake profile because after a whileyou start getting following you. So I
was like, okay, it's obviouslyfake. And then I clicked in it
and I was like, okay,this looks kind of legit. So I'm
going to reply and yeah, thatwas it, really, And I think
(09:16):
I said, oh, I'll getback. I'll get something back to you
within like a week. And Iwanted to make sure that I was coming
correct, as you know, it'sKevin Harris. Yeah, yeah, you
don't want to let that opportunity go. So I hired that studio in ad,
which was impossible, really difficult todo because every producer and DJ in
the world is there at one time. Managed to track one down, wrote
(09:39):
the song and yeah the rest.I wrote three different ideas for the track,
and then he pieced together like maybetwo of them, and that's how
it was born. Wow, that'samazing, and it's so incredible how quickly
it came together. I mean itwas it was a it was a previous
idea, so it was actually meantthis last one. No no, no.
So it's actually been sitting there fora while. But I had some
(10:00):
other releases already scheduled, which Iwanted to make sure, like I told
a little bit of a story Icouldn't. I didn't particularly want to fullow
boat a straight with Cavin Harris,because I mean, where do you really
go from that? Right? Iwanted to make sure that there was a
little bit of a story told.And I was standing on my own two
feet. And now I think it'sjust come at the perfect time. I
love that. Now. Something Ilove to find out about songs is how
(10:22):
many different versions there are from whenyou start working on it, all the
tweaking that goes on to when youfinally put it out. Do you remember
what the final V was of BodyMoving? You're gonna have to ask Calvin
that I sent my bit and Iwas happy with what I said. And
then if he tweaked tweaky tree ky, tweky here and there, that was
on him. But for me,I was I was good with what I
said straight away. Let me callCalvin really quickly and find out, Well,
(10:48):
congratulations on Body Moving. That isso amazing. Looking forward to twenty
twenty four, what's next for ElizaRose. I'm going to be putting out
like a lot more bodies of worknext year, which I'm I'm really excited
about. I've got a track withMJ Cole coming out. I've got a
neo soul track, so you're goingto kind of hear that more jazz and
soul style stuff that I really feelin love with at the beginning. And
(11:11):
yeah, just more EPs. Really. I'm working with some great artists from
America called Jeb and Ace MoMA andhopefully a woman called Bambie. So there's
all different people that I'm kind ofchatting to and just kind of opening up
the spectrum of stuff that I putout. As much as I love dancing
music, I'm really looking forward toto sharing the more soul and jazz side
of that as well well. Ihave a feeling that twenty twenty four is
(11:33):
going to be another amazing year forEliza Rose. Than It's great meeting you,
congratulations, Thank you so much foryour time on America's Dance thirty.
Thank you for having me so much. Honestly, it's been lovely to chat
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