June 9, 2025 • 12 mins
Celebrating another #1 on the U.S. dance charts, Daya joined us again on America's Dance 30 to chat all things "Dreamin" w Dom Dolla! She shared how the song was born, how long ago they started working on it, and how many Vs there were of the song before its final release.
Daya also shared how her new song "Infrared" was born! And we chatted about the 10-year anniversary of her life-changing smash "Hide Away", and what advice she would have for her younger self.
Daya also answered some questions she has NEVER been asked before!
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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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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!
Daya also shared how her new song "Infrared" was born! And we chatted about the 10-year anniversary of her life-changing smash "Hide Away", and what advice she would have for her younger self.
Daya also answered some questions she has NEVER been asked before!
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!
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):
Daya. It is so great seeing you again.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
We're gonna be talking about dreaming with Dom Dala coming up,
your new song Infrared. We're also going to get to
No Daya a little better coming up. But first of all,
congratulations on just recently celebrating ten years of Hideaway.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
That is so incredible. Daya. Welcome back to America's Dance thirty.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Thank you, it's so good to be here. Thanks so
much for having me. Brian Dance counting down the biggest
dance songs in the country. This is America's Dance thirty.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
It is great to see you again.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Now, just thinking back on everything, does it even seem
like it's been ten years since you released a song
that changed your life forever?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Yeah, so it's so hard. Like time is such a
weird thing.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Yeah, I think in a lot of ways, I like
look at that videos of that person or like pictures
of that just and I'm just like, how I feel
so so much older and so far removed from that era.
But at the same time, it's like feels like I
could picture everything happening like it was yesterday. So I
don't know, it's it's a crazy, crazy experience.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I saw your celebration post about you know, touring around
the country with your mom doing radio stuff, also prepping
your strut walk and all the stuff that went into
becoming a full blown artist. You know, looking back on
that moment right before everything blew up, now, knowing what
(01:48):
you do ten years later, what advice would you have
for Grace back then?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
I would say, I honestly don't think that I would
change a lot. I would or I think yeah, I
would say, like, keep doing what you're doing and keep
figuring it out as you go, and don't be scared
to take risks and.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Just follow your gut with stuff.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
I think that, Yeah, it's hard to like give exact
guidance because I think I needed to, like to really
experience a lot of ups and downs in order to
get to where I am right now. So it's like,
just just keep following your gut and keep doing what
feels right for you.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah, I absolutely love that, because I'm someone that follows
my gut a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Unfortunately, my gut hates me, so it gets me into
a lot of trouble.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
But congratulations on that, and congratulations on dreaming with dom
Daala going number one.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Thank you. Thank you so much. That's the true.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
That's crazy, so incredible.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Now, is this your second number one on the US
dance charts? Because did the song with the Chain Smokers.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Go number one?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
I think it also a number one on pop but
I'm not sure. I'm not positive if someone should check that.
But yeah, it's it's a crazy feeling. It's it's so awesome,
but that stuff happens.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
It's just like.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
It's like, yeah, it's awesome. It's it's so validating to
all the hard work that we put into it, and yeah,
it's it's so cool.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Well let's talk about the hard work. How was this
song born with Dom Dalla?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yeah, so actually we have a mutual friend, my friend Tim,
that Dom had been in the studio working with for
like a week when he was in La and Tim
and I have been working on some stuff recently, and
so Tim just texted me out of the blue. It
was kind of this very like spontan, spontaneous thing, and
he texted me I happened to be free that day,
(03:48):
and then I went in and it was me Alison Kaplan,
Tim and Dom and Dom had basically had most of
the track already built out he had had like this
little that hook melody also figured out, so we kind
of just started to follow that with the top line,
and then the lyrics followed shortly after that.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
It was really fast. It was really easy.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
I say, hard work, but it was like, so you.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Are lying to us, is what you're saying?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
How long ago did you guys start working on it?
Speaker 4 (04:24):
This was in end of October. I think it was
a pretty fast turnaround in terms of stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Sometimes you can just have songs sit in the vaults
for like a year or half a year or something,
but this was like, yeah, like October to when did
we put it out January February.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
That definitely is a quick turnaround.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I mean a lot of times there are songs that
are sitting there for like five years.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
So absolutely.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Now, something I love to find out is how many
different versions there are of a song from when you
guys start working on it, all the tweaking that goes
on to when you finally put it out.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Do you know what the final v was of dreaming?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Yeah, so we we did it like a good amount
of tweaking. We I think we just wanted to uh yeah,
when we when we went in and wrote it, we
like wrote probably like four different verses and and then
I think we somewhere along the line the decision was
(05:25):
made to just like have it be this repeated the
two verses that you hear, So that was the big
that was the biggest change. And then we uh built
out like a back end track or like more of
like a background vocals moment in where you hear like
the the it was in os in the background, and
(05:48):
and yeah, that was like those were the major tweaks,
but we didn't really it was nice because it was
like we had written too much and then it was
just like cutting down what we already had.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
It wasn't like we had to go in it. We
do parts completely.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
So now you've had some epic dance songs, like I
mentioned with the Chainsmokers, You've had one with RL Grime,
which is still one of my favorites. You know, with
this process with producers, do you, as a vocalist and
(06:25):
songwriter stay in the entire process or you know, do
you lend your voice and then that's it.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
I love to be there for as much of the
writing process as possible. I love writing, and I do
I write all of my own stuff for my own project.
So that's like that's always the dream. But obviously, like
if someone comes to me with a song that's mostly
written or or all the way written and there's just
(06:53):
like some tweaking that I would need to do, like,
I'm definitely open to that too. That was what happened
with the aurl grime track, and I just immediately loved
that song.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
So yeah, it kind of just depends.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
But I love I love being a part of whether
I'm not whether or not I'm part of like the
actual writing of the top line.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I love to be part of like the background, like
all the ad.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Libs and and just like shaping it vocally into you know,
dynamically vocally, I guess.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
But yeah, it kind of depends on the track.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Gotcha. Well, congratulations on this going number one. Speaking of
your own stuff, let's talk about your brand news smash Infrared.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
How was that song born?
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Yeah, so that was born out of almost a year ago.
Actually we wrote it in Sweden and I've been I've
been taking some trips back and forth there and and
I've just found a lot of like really amazing collaborators there,
and uh, this was written with Sebastian Feuer and Juliander
(08:01):
and uh yeah, it was just like automatically like one
of my favorites. It was just kind of like a
no brainer song for me, and uh I just love like,
I love the feeling. I love the intensity of it.
It feels very different from a lot of my other
stuff that have written, which feels more kind of reflective
for more like introspective or something. But this felt just
(08:24):
very like bold and confident. So I really love that
energy about it.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
And I love the video and the snippets that you've
been putting out. They are definitely next level.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Thank you. Thanks, Yeah, that was a really fun video
to work on.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I bet well.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Congratulations on that. Congratulations on the number one with dom
Daala Deya.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Before I let you go.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
You know, We've got a new feature here on America's
Dance thirty where I asked chat ept to give me
five questions that DAYA has never been asked before, so
I've got to test this out, all right.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
No, it was good robot get because they are all
over the place, all right, if you got a Grammy,
but it came with a curse that you could never
stop hiccupping.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Would you accept the grammy.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Okay, yeah, Wow, they're so creative. Sometimes you have to
love it. Let's see. I don't think no, I don't
think so.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
It's a tough one, isn't it really? As somebody who.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Suffers from hiccupping a lot, I don't know if I
would accept it either.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
No, yeah, because then, yeah, it'd be hard to sing
like that for sure.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Now what part of your personality do people completely misread?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
I don't know. That's a tough one. I have to
I have to. I have to ask Chat that I
have to go.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
You're gonna ask Chat for a Yeah, you like the
memory feature it can tell you.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Yeah, that's such a hard one.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Well we'll skip that one. If you could archive one
feeling in a time capsule forever, what would the feeling be?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I think just like excitement, like anticipation. I love that.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
See I was right when I saw that question as
a proud cat dad, I was like, I would just
love the bottle the feeling of cat's love to its owner.
Oh yeah, a time capsule, because that feeling is just unmatched.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
That's a really good one.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Yeah, thank you. That wasn't the robot.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
That was me Okay, I'm going to switter answer that.
I'm gonna I'm gonna change mine.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
All right now.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
If you were a color in a crayon box that
only came out once a decade, what would your shade
be called?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
I guess I have to go with INFRAREDE. Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Oh my god, that is it's perfect.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
To write.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
How did I not think of that?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
And finally, if your music was banned on Earth and
had to be preserved in space, which planet would you
want it to be orbited on?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
What's happening? What's happening in.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
This This is why I know chatch EPT will never
fully take over, because these questions are just so out
of space.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
They've got some work to do. I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
That sounds good to me.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Da.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
It is always awesome seeing you and catching up. Thank
you so much for your time with us on America's
Dance thirty.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Thank you so much for having me, Brian, it was
so fun answer.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Counting down the biggest dance songs in the country
Speaker 3 (12:00):
America's Dance thirty
Daya. It is so great seeing you again.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
We're gonna be talking about dreaming with Dom Dala coming up,
your new song Infrared. We're also going to get to
No Daya a little better coming up. But first of all,
congratulations on just recently celebrating ten years of Hideaway.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
That is so incredible. Daya. Welcome back to America's Dance thirty.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Thank you, it's so good to be here. Thanks so
much for having me. Brian Dance counting down the biggest
dance songs in the country. This is America's Dance thirty.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
It is great to see you again.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Now, just thinking back on everything, does it even seem
like it's been ten years since you released a song
that changed your life forever?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Yeah, so it's so hard. Like time is such a
weird thing.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Yeah, I think in a lot of ways, I like
look at that videos of that person or like pictures
of that just and I'm just like, how I feel
so so much older and so far removed from that era.
But at the same time, it's like feels like I
could picture everything happening like it was yesterday. So I
don't know, it's it's a crazy, crazy experience.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I saw your celebration post about you know, touring around
the country with your mom doing radio stuff, also prepping
your strut walk and all the stuff that went into
becoming a full blown artist. You know, looking back on
that moment right before everything blew up, now, knowing what
(01:48):
you do ten years later, what advice would you have
for Grace back then?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
I would say, I honestly don't think that I would
change a lot. I would or I think yeah, I
would say, like, keep doing what you're doing and keep
figuring it out as you go, and don't be scared
to take risks and.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Just follow your gut with stuff.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
I think that, Yeah, it's hard to like give exact
guidance because I think I needed to, like to really
experience a lot of ups and downs in order to
get to where I am right now. So it's like,
just just keep following your gut and keep doing what
feels right for you.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah, I absolutely love that, because I'm someone that follows
my gut a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Unfortunately, my gut hates me, so it gets me into
a lot of trouble.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
But congratulations on that, and congratulations on dreaming with dom
Daala going number one.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Thank you. Thank you so much. That's the true.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
That's crazy, so incredible.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Now, is this your second number one on the US
dance charts? Because did the song with the Chain Smokers.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Go number one?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
I think it also a number one on pop but
I'm not sure. I'm not positive if someone should check that.
But yeah, it's it's a crazy feeling. It's it's so awesome,
but that stuff happens.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
It's just like.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
It's like, yeah, it's awesome. It's it's so validating to
all the hard work that we put into it, and yeah,
it's it's so cool.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Well let's talk about the hard work. How was this
song born with Dom Dalla?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yeah, so actually we have a mutual friend, my friend Tim,
that Dom had been in the studio working with for
like a week when he was in La and Tim
and I have been working on some stuff recently, and
so Tim just texted me out of the blue. It
was kind of this very like spontan, spontaneous thing, and
he texted me I happened to be free that day,
(03:48):
and then I went in and it was me Alison Kaplan,
Tim and Dom and Dom had basically had most of
the track already built out he had had like this
little that hook melody also figured out, so we kind
of just started to follow that with the top line,
and then the lyrics followed shortly after that.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
It was really fast. It was really easy.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
I say, hard work, but it was like, so you.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Are lying to us, is what you're saying?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
How long ago did you guys start working on it?
Speaker 4 (04:24):
This was in end of October. I think it was
a pretty fast turnaround in terms of stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Sometimes you can just have songs sit in the vaults
for like a year or half a year or something,
but this was like, yeah, like October to when did
we put it out January February.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
That definitely is a quick turnaround.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I mean a lot of times there are songs that
are sitting there for like five years.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
So absolutely.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Now, something I love to find out is how many
different versions there are of a song from when you
guys start working on it, all the tweaking that goes
on to when you finally put it out.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Do you know what the final v was of dreaming?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Yeah, so we we did it like a good amount
of tweaking. We I think we just wanted to uh yeah,
when we when we went in and wrote it, we
like wrote probably like four different verses and and then
I think we somewhere along the line the decision was
(05:25):
made to just like have it be this repeated the
two verses that you hear, So that was the big
that was the biggest change. And then we uh built
out like a back end track or like more of
like a background vocals moment in where you hear like
the the it was in os in the background, and
(05:48):
and yeah, that was like those were the major tweaks,
but we didn't really it was nice because it was
like we had written too much and then it was
just like cutting down what we already had.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
It wasn't like we had to go in it. We
do parts completely.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
So now you've had some epic dance songs, like I
mentioned with the Chainsmokers, You've had one with RL Grime,
which is still one of my favorites. You know, with
this process with producers, do you, as a vocalist and
(06:25):
songwriter stay in the entire process or you know, do
you lend your voice and then that's it.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
I love to be there for as much of the
writing process as possible. I love writing, and I do
I write all of my own stuff for my own project.
So that's like that's always the dream. But obviously, like
if someone comes to me with a song that's mostly
written or or all the way written and there's just
(06:53):
like some tweaking that I would need to do, like,
I'm definitely open to that too. That was what happened
with the aurl grime track, and I just immediately loved
that song.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
So yeah, it kind of just depends.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
But I love I love being a part of whether
I'm not whether or not I'm part of like the
actual writing of the top line.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I love to be part of like the background, like
all the ad.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Libs and and just like shaping it vocally into you know,
dynamically vocally, I guess.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
But yeah, it kind of depends on the track.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Gotcha. Well, congratulations on this going number one. Speaking of
your own stuff, let's talk about your brand news smash Infrared.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
How was that song born?
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Yeah, so that was born out of almost a year ago.
Actually we wrote it in Sweden and I've been I've
been taking some trips back and forth there and and
I've just found a lot of like really amazing collaborators there,
and uh, this was written with Sebastian Feuer and Juliander
(08:01):
and uh yeah, it was just like automatically like one
of my favorites. It was just kind of like a
no brainer song for me, and uh I just love like,
I love the feeling. I love the intensity of it.
It feels very different from a lot of my other
stuff that have written, which feels more kind of reflective
for more like introspective or something. But this felt just
(08:24):
very like bold and confident. So I really love that
energy about it.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
And I love the video and the snippets that you've
been putting out. They are definitely next level.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Thank you. Thanks, Yeah, that was a really fun video
to work on.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I bet well.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Congratulations on that. Congratulations on the number one with dom
Daala Deya.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Before I let you go.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
You know, We've got a new feature here on America's
Dance thirty where I asked chat ept to give me
five questions that DAYA has never been asked before, so
I've got to test this out, all right.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
No, it was good robot get because they are all
over the place, all right, if you got a Grammy,
but it came with a curse that you could never
stop hiccupping.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Would you accept the grammy.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Okay, yeah, Wow, they're so creative. Sometimes you have to
love it. Let's see. I don't think no, I don't
think so.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
It's a tough one, isn't it really? As somebody who.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Suffers from hiccupping a lot, I don't know if I
would accept it either.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
No, yeah, because then, yeah, it'd be hard to sing
like that for sure.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Now what part of your personality do people completely misread?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
I don't know. That's a tough one. I have to
I have to. I have to ask Chat that I
have to go.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
You're gonna ask Chat for a Yeah, you like the
memory feature it can tell you.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Yeah, that's such a hard one.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Well we'll skip that one. If you could archive one
feeling in a time capsule forever, what would the feeling be?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I think just like excitement, like anticipation. I love that.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
See I was right when I saw that question as
a proud cat dad, I was like, I would just
love the bottle the feeling of cat's love to its owner.
Oh yeah, a time capsule, because that feeling is just unmatched.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
That's a really good one.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Yeah, thank you. That wasn't the robot.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
That was me Okay, I'm going to switter answer that.
I'm gonna I'm gonna change mine.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
All right now.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
If you were a color in a crayon box that
only came out once a decade, what would your shade
be called?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
I guess I have to go with INFRAREDE. Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Oh my god, that is it's perfect.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
To write.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
How did I not think of that?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
And finally, if your music was banned on Earth and
had to be preserved in space, which planet would you
want it to be orbited on?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
What's happening? What's happening in.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
This This is why I know chatch EPT will never
fully take over, because these questions are just so out
of space.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
They've got some work to do. I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
That sounds good to me.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Da.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
It is always awesome seeing you and catching up. Thank
you so much for your time with us on America's
Dance thirty.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Thank you so much for having me, Brian, it was
so fun answer.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Counting down the biggest dance songs in the country
Speaker 3 (12:00):
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If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.