October 27, 2025 • 14 mins
Celebrating the release of her new smash "Stay Awake", Linney joins us on America's Dance 30 from ADE in Amsterdam! In this exclusive interview, she shares how the song was born, how long ago they wrote it, and why she re-recorded the vocals for it.
Linney also answers a question she's never been asked before, and we get to know her better w #FinkysFavorites!
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Linney also answers a question she's never been asked before, and we get to know her better w #FinkysFavorites!
Find out about:
- her favorite thing about Amsterdam
- her favorite thing about performing at The Sphere in Vegas
- her favorite pre-show ritual
- her favorite genre of music to listen to
- her favorite thing about DJ'ing compared to singing
- her favorite place to write songs
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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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Lenny.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Before we start this chat, I need you to do
me a favor and tell me that you are having
a horrible time in Amsterdam at ad.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Well, I did just get here, and I only slept
for one hour because you know, I was trying to
stay true to the song and stay awake on the
plane in the middle seat next to the restroom. But
I did write three songs in my session today, so
you know, not too bad.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
That is amazing.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I am having so much fomo because like all the
memories and I'm seeing everybody's stories and get this. I
was watching a YouTube video earlier and an ad popped
up for Lego and I'm like, oh, okay, cool Lego.
And then it gets to the end of it and
it's for the Vang Museum in Amsterdam.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Oh my gosh, which I haven't been to yet this time.
Like I didn't get to do any touristy things last year,
so I'm hoping to like get on the water, maybe
ride a bike as long as I don't tear my
acl again, and maybe go to some museum.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
You definitely need to be so when I was there
last year, I did. So let's get into this, Chad.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
We're gonna be talking all about your smash Stay Awake
coming up. We're gonna get to know you a little
better with Thinky's favorites and ask you a question you
have possibly never been asked before. Lenny, it has been
way too long. Welcome back to America's Dance thirty.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Thank you so much for having me counting down the
biggest dance songs in the country. This is America's Dance thirty.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I can't thank you enough for carving out some time
because I know you're dealing with the insanity of ad
right now. Speaking of Amsterdam, you know you mentioned that
you've gotten no sleep and you went right into sessions.
Is it tough being creative in sessions when you are
so tired?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Something unique about just landing in a new country. You're like, okay,
well it's the middle of the day now, and like, yes,
it started to hit me probably a couple hours in,
but I don't know. I'm still like riding a high
from singing at the Sphere a couple of months.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Ago, and we're gonna be talking about that coming up,
and I totally get it. Like when I landed in
Amsterdam last year, I was fine until I think I
sat down midday and then I was like, nope, I
gotta stand up.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yeah, gotta keep moving, gotta keep moving.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Absolutely well, congratulations on this new smash, stay Awake. I
can't wait to talk about how it was born. But
first let's get to know Lenny a little better. With
Thinky's favorites. What is your favorite thing to do in Amsterdam?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Honestly, just wander the cities. There's like lights up already
for the holidays. It's just so beautiful watching the lights
on the water. Just reminding myself that the world is
so big.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
It is such a beautiful city being there.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
And I will tell you this something I found out,
and this might be very personal to me, but something
I found out kind of at the end of my
trip last year was I met somebody who lived there
and they told me about the gold bricks on the
ground there.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Do you know about them?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
No, I don't.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
There are gold bricks throughout Amsterdam, and on them are
written the name, the birth date, and the date it's
when people were taken, and so they have memorials in
gold bricks throughout the city. It was one of the
most powerful things I wish I had known when I
first got there.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Wow. Wow, Okay, I will have to keep an eye
out for that. Thank you for letting me know.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yeah, absolutely. Now you mentioned performing at the Sphere. It
is so incredible. Congratulations about that at What was your
favorite thing about performing there?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Honestly, it was maybe the coolest venue. I mean, Red
Rocks was very cool. I think, Yeah, you were at
the Red Rock Show. It just felt like I felt
like I had my Taylor Swift moment. I was up
on before foot platform, the entire like wrap round screen.
I'd never been in this sphere before. It was just
larger than life, and the production team was just next level.
(04:25):
They were like sewing costumes in the back. One of
the other singers needed some shorts made and it was
top tier.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
That is incredible.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Will all your videos and everything just look amazing from there,
So congratulations again. Congratulations to Subtronics for playing there. That's
so cool.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yes, he's honestly just one of my favorite people I've
ever collaborated with. He like really shares his stage, and
his fan base is just so warm and inviting and welcoming,
and like it's been just nothing but a positive experience
working with him.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
That is so awesome.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Well, speaking of your performance, is what is your favorite
pre show ritual?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Ooh, Lately, as I've been doing more touring and djying too,
I seem to find myself always ordering sweet Green. I
ordered the Harvest salad because I'm like, I have a
sensitive stomach too, and I'm like, gluten free, dairy freesome,
Like I need to order this specific meal before the show.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I totally get that because my stomach is so messed
up too, and so before I am working at a
gig or before I go on the radio, like I
legit have the same order that I do every time.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Because you don't want to take a chance.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Oh no, my friends are like, you have to try
something new in the city. I'm like, I'm I'm all
for that, but not before I have been reporting exactly now.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
You mentioned that you recently started djaying, which is incredible.
What is your favorite thing about djaying as compared to singing.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
It's been It's been interesting. I started DJing during COVID,
but I didn't actually start playing like shows until this year.
I did. I've opened for CVOKI, for Laid Back Luke,
I played DC, I did Opening Weekend at Marquis, New York,
and for me, I'm kind of like, wait, I've always
loved curating music. Like I remember I would burn the
(06:14):
CDs in middle school for like the long car rides
at school, and like, I love just sharing my favorite
songs with people and finding like sometimes when I hear
one song, I hear another at the same time. And
so that's been a cool way for me to like
add vocals on top of different instrumentals and be creative
in that way.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
That's so awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
It was so great seeing you getting to play EDC
getting to play eleven.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
That's so awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Now, something that people might not know about you is
that you also thrived in country music, which is incredible.
What is your favorite genre of music to listen to.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
I think it's dance music. I have my like during
the day though, it's like chill house. I like playlists
like Chill Trucks, Deep House, Relaxed, and then at night
it's more of like club stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
It's so funny you mentioned that because I remember being
in the club and talking to one of the DJs
and him mentioning that when he gets done with a gig,
he'll get in the car and listen to like easy
listening or jazz whereas I get in the car and
I put dance music right back on, like I just
love it that much.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Same absolutely.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Now.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Finally in Finkey's Favorites, in honor of your new smash
Stay Awake and you being in Amsterdam doing sessions, where
is your favorite place to write?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Ooh, Cruise Control was really cool today. I also got
to write at Martin Garricks's studio last year and that
was pretty beautiful. That's maybe my favorite.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Stamped That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
But besides being in Amsterdam, like in general, right songs,
is it like in your bedroom? Is it on the beach?
Is it in the studio?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I definitely in the studio. I have a home studio.
I have my own little vocal booth. I like I
need to hear it to know whether I like it.
So I'm I'm the kind of person that like, when
I have the music, I'll put the mic up, I'll
press record, even before I know what I'm going to sing.
I want to record the first idea, listen back be
like was I cool? Is it not? Okay? Let's finesse
and I kind of like workshop things that way with
(08:30):
my with Ambleton.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I love that and I love that you just start
recording no matter what, because you never know what's going
to come out.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Exactly sometimes the first instinct, and sometimes when I get
said tracks, I do a lot of like writing vocals
and lyrics on top of pre existing trucks. It's pop planning.
I guess if I don't hear anything the first couple
of times, it doesn't mean the truck's not good or anything.
It's just not for me. I need to be like
immediately hear something to feel like I can do the
(08:58):
track justice.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Well, let's talk about something that I did hear immediately,
your new smash Stay Awake.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
How was this song born?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
You know? I think there's actually something quite magical about
the first time you write with someone. I've had that
happen with a lot of my songs, and this was
the first time writing with Alie Green, who's written for
probably everybody on the station, Tiesto, the chand Smokers after
Jacko was our first session. He was in from London.
(09:28):
We had this piano idea. We kind of wanted to
throw it back to what some people call like the
golden era of dance music and have the melody reflect
in the piano part and have it be something really
memorable like that sticks with you.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
That's so awesome. And how long ago would you guys
start working on it.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I think we wrote it in April or May.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Oh, that was pretty recent. Totally turn around.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Yeah, I have some songs that you know have taken
a couple of years, so this was yeah, this was
the last spring of this.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Now, son, I love to find out about songs is
how many different versions there are from when you start
working on it, all the tweaking that goes on to
when you finally master it and put it out. You,
as a singer songwriter, are you through the entire process?
Speaker 3 (10:15):
So we had a day of demo that was like
pretty representative of the melodic parts, like the piano was there.
We didn't have the drop completely built out yet because
we didn't know where the song was going to go,
and we had a first verse that we ended up cutting.
We start with the chorus, we went to the second
verse and go back to the chorus and fun fact,
(10:38):
the verse is so low for me that I, after
singing the really high chorus, I had to come back
the next morning and record the verse first thing in
the morning, like when my voice was lower yeah, after
like belting the chorus, I just like wasn't getting it
when we were re recording it. But yeah, I did
re record the vocals maybe like a month ago. Once
(10:59):
we had the fun production because I am a perfectionist
and I liked making sure everything's really dialed in, like
performance wise, But then we brought in another producer to
help us finish it and the whole process, like once
we decided to put it out, I would say, like
happened really quickly in the last month and a half.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Now, when you're doing something like that with your vocals
and having to change because of the range.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Does that make it tougher to perform live?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
That's interesting because I normally sing like very soft, which
I love, but it makes it really hard to sing
live because the clubs are so loud and like to
preserve the quality of the vocal quiet like that is difficult.
So honestly, like singing that belty massive chorus is a
little bit easier and a loud club.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Well, I can't wait to hear you performing a live.
Congratulations on this new smash, Thank you so much. Now,
before I let you go, I asked chat ept to
give me a question that Lenny has never been asked before,
so I got to test this out. All right, Oh no,
I dared if your younger self was in this chat
(12:07):
with us and could ask you any question, What do
you think your younger self would ask you right now?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Oh? Okay, I think that well. To proface that, I
think that I was like a very shy kid who
never felt like I really fit in. But I used
music from a very young age to express myself and
it sort of like gave me the superpower to speak
out about my feelings when I found it hard to
(12:34):
speak up in class. And so I think maybe my
younger self would ask like do you ever feel like
you belong or like did you find your place? Like
did you chase your dreams? Did you do it? And
I feel like I would say yes, I would say
that I am doing it, and I think it's been
(12:57):
really cool. I went to a small school, but I've
started receiving messages this past year of people being like, Hey,
I don't know if you remember me, but I was
in your high school and I just heard you on
the radio and like you inspire me so much, like
you stuck with it, Like I got made fun of
for wanting to sing and like chase my dreams, and
people were like you didn't stop, and like, I really
(13:18):
admire that. I'm like, I've been waiting my whole life
for these messages. But thank you.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Oh my god, I love hearing that in the middle.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
That makes my heart so happy because I was kind
of in the same situation.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I was bullied really badly as a kid.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
And I think that, you know, just knowing that we've
stuck on our path and created this life for us
that we could be happy with, it's just amazing that
we've been able to do that. So congratulations to you
and your younger self.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Thank you, Congrats to you. We're doing it.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
We're doing it, Lenny. It always makes me so happy
to see you, even if I'm not an Amsterdam Thank
you so much for your time with us on America's
Dance thirty.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Thank you for having me. America's Dance thirty counting down
the biggest dance songs in the country. America's Dance thirty
Lenny.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Before we start this chat, I need you to do
me a favor and tell me that you are having
a horrible time in Amsterdam at ad.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Well, I did just get here, and I only slept
for one hour because you know, I was trying to
stay true to the song and stay awake on the
plane in the middle seat next to the restroom. But
I did write three songs in my session today, so
you know, not too bad.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
That is amazing.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I am having so much fomo because like all the
memories and I'm seeing everybody's stories and get this. I
was watching a YouTube video earlier and an ad popped
up for Lego and I'm like, oh, okay, cool Lego.
And then it gets to the end of it and
it's for the Vang Museum in Amsterdam.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Oh my gosh, which I haven't been to yet this time.
Like I didn't get to do any touristy things last year,
so I'm hoping to like get on the water, maybe
ride a bike as long as I don't tear my
acl again, and maybe go to some museum.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
You definitely need to be so when I was there
last year, I did. So let's get into this, Chad.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
We're gonna be talking all about your smash Stay Awake
coming up. We're gonna get to know you a little
better with Thinky's favorites and ask you a question you
have possibly never been asked before. Lenny, it has been
way too long. Welcome back to America's Dance thirty.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Thank you so much for having me counting down the
biggest dance songs in the country. This is America's Dance thirty.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I can't thank you enough for carving out some time
because I know you're dealing with the insanity of ad
right now. Speaking of Amsterdam, you know you mentioned that
you've gotten no sleep and you went right into sessions.
Is it tough being creative in sessions when you are
so tired?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Something unique about just landing in a new country. You're like, okay,
well it's the middle of the day now, and like, yes,
it started to hit me probably a couple hours in,
but I don't know. I'm still like riding a high
from singing at the Sphere a couple of months.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Ago, and we're gonna be talking about that coming up,
and I totally get it. Like when I landed in
Amsterdam last year, I was fine until I think I
sat down midday and then I was like, nope, I
gotta stand up.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yeah, gotta keep moving, gotta keep moving.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Absolutely well, congratulations on this new smash, stay Awake. I
can't wait to talk about how it was born. But
first let's get to know Lenny a little better. With
Thinky's favorites. What is your favorite thing to do in Amsterdam?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Honestly, just wander the cities. There's like lights up already
for the holidays. It's just so beautiful watching the lights
on the water. Just reminding myself that the world is
so big.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
It is such a beautiful city being there.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
And I will tell you this something I found out,
and this might be very personal to me, but something
I found out kind of at the end of my
trip last year was I met somebody who lived there
and they told me about the gold bricks on the
ground there.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Do you know about them?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
No, I don't.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
There are gold bricks throughout Amsterdam, and on them are
written the name, the birth date, and the date it's
when people were taken, and so they have memorials in
gold bricks throughout the city. It was one of the
most powerful things I wish I had known when I
first got there.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Wow. Wow, Okay, I will have to keep an eye
out for that. Thank you for letting me know.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yeah, absolutely. Now you mentioned performing at the Sphere. It
is so incredible. Congratulations about that at What was your
favorite thing about performing there?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Honestly, it was maybe the coolest venue. I mean, Red
Rocks was very cool. I think, Yeah, you were at
the Red Rock Show. It just felt like I felt
like I had my Taylor Swift moment. I was up
on before foot platform, the entire like wrap round screen.
I'd never been in this sphere before. It was just
larger than life, and the production team was just next level.
(04:25):
They were like sewing costumes in the back. One of
the other singers needed some shorts made and it was
top tier.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
That is incredible.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Will all your videos and everything just look amazing from there,
So congratulations again. Congratulations to Subtronics for playing there. That's
so cool.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yes, he's honestly just one of my favorite people I've
ever collaborated with. He like really shares his stage, and
his fan base is just so warm and inviting and welcoming,
and like it's been just nothing but a positive experience
working with him.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
That is so awesome.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Well, speaking of your performance, is what is your favorite
pre show ritual?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Ooh, Lately, as I've been doing more touring and djying too,
I seem to find myself always ordering sweet Green. I
ordered the Harvest salad because I'm like, I have a
sensitive stomach too, and I'm like, gluten free, dairy freesome,
Like I need to order this specific meal before the show.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I totally get that because my stomach is so messed
up too, and so before I am working at a
gig or before I go on the radio, like I
legit have the same order that I do every time.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Because you don't want to take a chance.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Oh no, my friends are like, you have to try
something new in the city. I'm like, I'm I'm all
for that, but not before I have been reporting exactly now.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
You mentioned that you recently started djaying, which is incredible.
What is your favorite thing about djaying as compared to singing.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
It's been It's been interesting. I started DJing during COVID,
but I didn't actually start playing like shows until this year.
I did. I've opened for CVOKI, for Laid Back Luke,
I played DC, I did Opening Weekend at Marquis, New York,
and for me, I'm kind of like, wait, I've always
loved curating music. Like I remember I would burn the
(06:14):
CDs in middle school for like the long car rides
at school, and like, I love just sharing my favorite
songs with people and finding like sometimes when I hear
one song, I hear another at the same time. And
so that's been a cool way for me to like
add vocals on top of different instrumentals and be creative
in that way.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
That's so awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
It was so great seeing you getting to play EDC
getting to play eleven.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
That's so awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Now, something that people might not know about you is
that you also thrived in country music, which is incredible.
What is your favorite genre of music to listen to.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
I think it's dance music. I have my like during
the day though, it's like chill house. I like playlists
like Chill Trucks, Deep House, Relaxed, and then at night
it's more of like club stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
It's so funny you mentioned that because I remember being
in the club and talking to one of the DJs
and him mentioning that when he gets done with a gig,
he'll get in the car and listen to like easy
listening or jazz whereas I get in the car and
I put dance music right back on, like I just
love it that much.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Same absolutely.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Now.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Finally in Finkey's Favorites, in honor of your new smash
Stay Awake and you being in Amsterdam doing sessions, where
is your favorite place to write?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Ooh, Cruise Control was really cool today. I also got
to write at Martin Garricks's studio last year and that
was pretty beautiful. That's maybe my favorite.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Stamped That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
But besides being in Amsterdam, like in general, right songs,
is it like in your bedroom? Is it on the beach?
Is it in the studio?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I definitely in the studio. I have a home studio.
I have my own little vocal booth. I like I
need to hear it to know whether I like it.
So I'm I'm the kind of person that like, when
I have the music, I'll put the mic up, I'll
press record, even before I know what I'm going to sing.
I want to record the first idea, listen back be
like was I cool? Is it not? Okay? Let's finesse
and I kind of like workshop things that way with
(08:30):
my with Ambleton.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I love that and I love that you just start
recording no matter what, because you never know what's going
to come out.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Exactly sometimes the first instinct, and sometimes when I get
said tracks, I do a lot of like writing vocals
and lyrics on top of pre existing trucks. It's pop planning.
I guess if I don't hear anything the first couple
of times, it doesn't mean the truck's not good or anything.
It's just not for me. I need to be like
immediately hear something to feel like I can do the
(08:58):
track justice.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Well, let's talk about something that I did hear immediately,
your new smash Stay Awake.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
How was this song born?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
You know? I think there's actually something quite magical about
the first time you write with someone. I've had that
happen with a lot of my songs, and this was
the first time writing with Alie Green, who's written for
probably everybody on the station, Tiesto, the chand Smokers after
Jacko was our first session. He was in from London.
(09:28):
We had this piano idea. We kind of wanted to
throw it back to what some people call like the
golden era of dance music and have the melody reflect
in the piano part and have it be something really
memorable like that sticks with you.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
That's so awesome. And how long ago would you guys
start working on it.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I think we wrote it in April or May.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Oh, that was pretty recent. Totally turn around.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Yeah, I have some songs that you know have taken
a couple of years, so this was yeah, this was
the last spring of this.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Now, son, I love to find out about songs is
how many different versions there are from when you start
working on it, all the tweaking that goes on to
when you finally master it and put it out. You,
as a singer songwriter, are you through the entire process?
Speaker 3 (10:15):
So we had a day of demo that was like
pretty representative of the melodic parts, like the piano was there.
We didn't have the drop completely built out yet because
we didn't know where the song was going to go,
and we had a first verse that we ended up cutting.
We start with the chorus, we went to the second
verse and go back to the chorus and fun fact,
(10:38):
the verse is so low for me that I, after
singing the really high chorus, I had to come back
the next morning and record the verse first thing in
the morning, like when my voice was lower yeah, after
like belting the chorus, I just like wasn't getting it
when we were re recording it. But yeah, I did
re record the vocals maybe like a month ago. Once
(10:59):
we had the fun production because I am a perfectionist
and I liked making sure everything's really dialed in, like
performance wise, But then we brought in another producer to
help us finish it and the whole process, like once
we decided to put it out, I would say, like
happened really quickly in the last month and a half.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Now, when you're doing something like that with your vocals
and having to change because of the range.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Does that make it tougher to perform live?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
That's interesting because I normally sing like very soft, which
I love, but it makes it really hard to sing
live because the clubs are so loud and like to
preserve the quality of the vocal quiet like that is difficult.
So honestly, like singing that belty massive chorus is a
little bit easier and a loud club.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Well, I can't wait to hear you performing a live.
Congratulations on this new smash, Thank you so much. Now,
before I let you go, I asked chat ept to
give me a question that Lenny has never been asked before,
so I got to test this out. All right, Oh no,
I dared if your younger self was in this chat
(12:07):
with us and could ask you any question, What do
you think your younger self would ask you right now?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Oh? Okay, I think that well. To proface that, I
think that I was like a very shy kid who
never felt like I really fit in. But I used
music from a very young age to express myself and
it sort of like gave me the superpower to speak
out about my feelings when I found it hard to
(12:34):
speak up in class. And so I think maybe my
younger self would ask like do you ever feel like
you belong or like did you find your place? Like
did you chase your dreams? Did you do it? And
I feel like I would say yes, I would say
that I am doing it, and I think it's been
(12:57):
really cool. I went to a small school, but I've
started receiving messages this past year of people being like, Hey,
I don't know if you remember me, but I was
in your high school and I just heard you on
the radio and like you inspire me so much, like
you stuck with it, Like I got made fun of
for wanting to sing and like chase my dreams, and
people were like you didn't stop, and like, I really
(13:18):
admire that. I'm like, I've been waiting my whole life
for these messages. But thank you.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Oh my god, I love hearing that in the middle.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
That makes my heart so happy because I was kind
of in the same situation.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I was bullied really badly as a kid.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
And I think that, you know, just knowing that we've
stuck on our path and created this life for us
that we could be happy with, it's just amazing that
we've been able to do that. So congratulations to you
and your younger self.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Thank you, Congrats to you. We're doing it.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
We're doing it, Lenny. It always makes me so happy
to see you, even if I'm not an Amsterdam Thank
you so much for your time with us on America's
Dance thirty.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Thank you for having me. America's Dance thirty counting down
the biggest dance songs in the country. America's Dance thirty
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