July 17, 2025 • 15 mins
The worldwide sensation Dasha graces us with her presence today! We talk her music career, sports she played in school, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Show one on one point three Kati w B. Welcome
to the Space Needles Studio, Dasha. Yeah, I'm talking about
Panda Express. I don't know how it came up you.
You you are in town and they had Panda Expresses everywhere,
Dash and You're like Panda Express.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, I mean I was hungry yesterday, so I went
to the Mall of America look around and got some
pan Express here.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
You didn't go on the rides, you didn't walk around
this is the world's largest mall. You went to Panda
Express at thirty minutes. Yea, Rice is calling my name.
So you were with p one O two last night
at their big secret show and there are friends that
are They're down the hall. Yeah. So you're out on
the road. Where are where the tell me about the tour,
(00:47):
where you're going next, and all about the tour.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
So I just did my first weekend with Thomas Rhett,
which was so cool. Oh my god. He's just one
of my favorites and his whole team is so great.
Excuse me. So we're doing Thomas Rhett and then came
Brown again next week end, and then we go back
with Thomas rat for two weekends and then I go
back with Caane Brown and go to like London and
Manchester and Birmingham. Wow, support over there. Yeah, and then
(01:11):
I do a headline tour in Canada. I've ever been
to like London before? Yeah? Yeah, been there twice this
year already. Oh my god. I told that on the
elevator on the way up. I was jealous. She was
in Australia to be with my idols, the Wiggles. Sure was.
She did a song with the Wiggles. And you didn't
know about this. You didn't hear the news. Oh my god,
it's big news.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
So you did a song with the Wiggles. Does it
exist somewhere on YouTube?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Spotify?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Up everywhere Spotify.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I did a music video with them too. It was
like the lead single off their album. They just dropped
songs called Wiggle Up, Giddy Appears, a Little Clue.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Okay, amazing good. That is going to be like a
highlight of your life death.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Check this stuff out.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
By the way, we're talking to Dash if you want
to see her, We're on Dave Ryan TV right now
on YouTube if you want to watch and check that out.
As you're traveling around, I was talking to your tour
manager a minute ago, and we bonded because my son
is also a tour manager. Are you on a bus?
Are you traveling first class on Delta? You got a
private jet? Or how are we traveling?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I wish it was that, bougie. We're still starting out. Okay,
we're still starting out in Europe. I get bused because
I'm way bury in Europe than I am in the States,
which is pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, Canada will have a bus, but in the States,
I haven't had a bus yet.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
You get a sprinter van in hotels and hotels.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Okay, and sometimes I get first class. Oh, when I
upgrade myself, they give you free ginger rail. Then when oh, girls,
don't you know it in a three inch bigger seat
you started.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I was looking at Wikipedia and sometimes Wikipedia is like,
you know, it's not exactly anchorates sung and ask you
did you really start when you were like ten years old?
Like wine bars and coffee bars.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
I started gigging when I was ten wineries, coffee shops.
I started writing when I was about eight years old.
So it's always been about the songwriting for me.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Did it come out as music or poetry?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I honestly started with poetry, which is crazy. But I
was obsessed with Taylor Swift and like Britney Spears. Yeah,
and I just like Taylor specifically, like the way she
wrote songs and how she's just a genius, a lyrical genius.
And I was like, I want to be so creative
and smart with my lyrics. And I don't know, I've
just always been a very dramatic child. Okay, so me
like writing poetry about these boys that I was in lovely,
(03:25):
I was gonna say, like, what kind of feelings did
you write about? When you're so many? So many feelings
all from like movies. I mean, honestly, I had a
lot of crushes. I think I kissed like three people Kindergarten.
I feel a girl like that. I don't even know.
I was just that girl. So forbid?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
What is hard of the lyrics or of the music,
because the songwriting process is so like impressive to me?
Is the lyrics harder or the melody harder?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
For me? Lyrics are harder than melody. Melody does it
just come out of nowhere? I don't know. It's like
an antenna. I swear to God, like I'm really really
good with melodies. That's like my strength in a room.
But I mean, obviously I'm good lyrics too, I hope,
but no, for me, it's hard sometimes the piece go storyline.
That's why I like co writing so much with people
that are like really good with like concepts and like, Okay,
(04:09):
this is kind of I'm feeling this is the feeling
of the melody. What if this is the tone of
song I'm going with? Like piecing that together, like putting
together all the pieces that make it hit.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Like why I like co writing something that's the hard
part is making a radio hit, which you've done, I
mean a couple of I'll just play a clip of
Austin here so you well you'll remember I.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Think kid Bags for another.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
It's so catchy. Did you know, like, hey, this is
a radio hit? When I wrote this.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yeah, genuinely, that's the only time I've ever had that
gut feeling. Actually, when I wrote not This Party, I
had that feeling too. But when I walked out of
the room with Austin, I had the bounce, which was
so cool, and I played it the entire way home
and I was like, am I like tripping right now?
Or is this like the catchy song of her and
did I just write it right now? It is independently
with a bunch of friends, like what people made a
(05:00):
square day or like a line dance to dash a
right people to me, I made it?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
You made it?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Okay? People army to us later, Yeah, I would love
to you. Guys are probably gonna watch it, but that's okay.
It's more fun.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
We will And Dave doesn't do dances.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
He doesn't dances.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Probably have the though nothing more embarrassing than it was
an old guy on TikTok doing a dance. I've seen
friends of mine that are DJs. They're like forty eight
years old or sixty four years old on TikTok doing
a dance. I'm like, you should be embarrassed.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
If you were.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
What do you like to do? What do you like
to do when you're not? When you had time?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I played pick a ball? Yeah really. I got into
pickling this year a lot. My mom got me into
it and I was like, this is a grandma sport
and I was like, I am a grandma grandma sport
though you do have to be and I don't really
running that much, so it's like a perfect athletic thing
for me. But like it's not too hard volleyball too.
I was as maybe five yeah, in the front all around.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
But were you a badass? Though? And the reason I
asked this is because my daughter was five eight and
she got recruited to play high school volleyball. But she's
so polite. She'd be like, you get it, you get it,
you get it. You're the bitch in the front.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Then okay, I say they were a bit. No, I
was a bit in the front.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I used to get the site says it's dash, a
bitch dot, come on, come on to your website, the
tickets on it's dash.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
No.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I used to I got a yellow card one time
because every time they would like serve her, they would
like hit.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
It to us.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I'd be like, she's not gonna make it, she's gonna
mess it up. And they started messing it up as hell. Yeah,
win these games. It's all psychological, Like if someone got
in my head, I would lose, you know. So I
was just like, wow, so funny.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
I don't think I ever saw people talking is a
volleyball courts and I'm like, I had a football game, sure.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Oh you need to meet my high school team.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
It was fun, don't speaking of high school? Did you
have a job in high school? Did you work down
to the DQ or did what did you doing? Right?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
So, my mom was engaged to a fruit farmer in
high school, and so I used to work the markets
with him six am Saturdays and after school on Wednesdays
in California, Okay, And I just sell at the farmer's
market and made all the farmers and be my bubbly
self and sell apples straight up. I love that.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
At what point did you, Dasha, realize that you would
no longer need to work at the farmer's market or
learn how to you know, I don't know, I don't
know what when did you realize this is my career?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Well?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
The thing is, like I started gigging when I was ten, right,
so I'd make like one hundred bucks or fifty bucks
or like, you know, so that was also like how
I made money in high school. But I mean, I've
always had like little weird side jobs. But the thing is,
while I had these side jobs, I always just knew
it was going to work out someday, I don't know
how or when. And like two years ago, when it
hadn't quite worked out, and I just dropped my first
(07:53):
label deal, and I was like, oh my god, what
is going to happen? Like, am I failing? I was
like twenty three freaking out. And then I wrote Austin.
Then I was like I just had the feeling. I
was like, Oh, it's gonna work out. We're good. So
I'm just always kind of known in a weird way.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I'm wanna ask you this one because I'm sure you
get this all the time, Dasha, how do I break
into the business? How do I get my songs on
the radio? What? Because people ask me and I go, well,
you got to write a really good song. You're competing
with Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift and Dasha, so your
stuff has got to be really good. What do you
tell people that are like, you know, eighteen years old,
like I play the guitar? How do I get myself?
Do I break into the business?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Honestly, my biggest piece of advice is like finding what
makes you you like your sound. I feel like when
I finally had my breakout moment with Austin, it's because
I finally found that sound of like I'm such a
pop in country artist. You know, it's right on that line,
and it's so genuine. It wasn't me being like countryes
having a pink I'm gonna do that. It's like no, no, no,
I've always written country music and I also love pop music,
(08:50):
and so like it just happened. Even the feeling in
the video is it just like finally I did what
I truly liked and followed my taste. It's really hard
to do because so many people's opinions get thrown in
and like you should do that, you should wear this,
Like oh, don't do that. I don't like this song.
It's like no, no, no, cut out all that noise. It's like,
what is your taste?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
So it's a kind of a three way hybrid of country,
pop and Dasha all put together. What's the best or worst?
What comes to mind? What's the best? You used talk
about advice? What's the best or worst advice that comes
to mind? Did anybody ever say you know what you
need to do? You need to color your hair green.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I've gotten the worst advice ever. I mean people, I
think my old roommate in La told me they didn't
like Austin. They're like, I don't think it's your sound, No.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Get it?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, I remember, and I laughed because I knew it
in my gut.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I was like, no, it's a good song, it's so catchy. Off,
all right, we're gonna have some what we already are
having some fun, but we're gonna put you on the spot.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Here.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
We're gonna play a game called I don't know the
words carrayok, and we're gonna start off with this one.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, here we go.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, sorry yet yet.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Okay, I'm still scratching from the show six s.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Oh, baby baby, how was I suppose to know?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Something wasn't right?
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Oh baby baby, I should in and you go And
now I'm all beside you. Show me how you want
me to be. Tell me, baby, I need to know
now because my loneliness is killing me. I must confess
(10:42):
I still believe.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Then I'm not with you lose my mind?
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Here, give me a side so heavy baby all my time?
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yes, yeah, almost every lyric there's a couple of I realized, though,
You're right, it takes up on you, it really does.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
We played this game and we're like, we know all
these songs. When we started saying, we're like, we don't
know these.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Words, all right, talk about the new song. Oh Anna, Well.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I have the idea. Well okay, let me back up.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
We're talking to Dash. If you just turn your radio on,
you go, oh my god, is that Britney Spears.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
It's that guys, It's me Dasha. So basically last year
I had my first headline tour and at the end
of the year I kind of started losing my mind
a bit because touring for the first time is so intense,
and there's also just so much pressure on me to
like show up and go to all these interviews and
fly across the world and meet all these fans and
just be present all the time. And I had just
(11:47):
had no time to go play pickle ball and like
make myself a meal and like just be normal. And
I was just like losing who I was in my
center and like I'm just it. It was scary because
that's the one thing I've always known about myself. It's
like who I am in my vision and my confidence
and as a little girl, like I was saying, I've
never had a plan B. This has just been the
goal and I knew it was going to happen. I
(12:07):
was like, perfect, Great, I don't know how when, what?
But it's going to happen. And when it did happen,
I was just so grateful. But came with that was
like kind of like an imposter syndrome, and like I
got a lot of shit talked about me, and like
it was just oh sorry, sorry, sorry. I got a
lot of crap talked about me, and I just kind
of lost my center and lost who I was. And
(12:29):
I went into the session being like, guys, as a kid,
I just I miss her. I miss her so much, Yes,
miss yeah, And I just missed Anna so much. I
needed her back for me to be okay and for
me to keep doing this, because I want to keep
doing this so bad more than anything. But I was like,
I don't know who I am anymore, and so I
wrote oh Anna to kind of come back to who
(12:50):
I was as a child. Oh is you come back?
Little girl?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Oh? I like that. That is very cool, very nice.
We're talking to Dasha real name Anna, Dasha Novatani.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Did whoa Wikipedia?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Dasha? Where did mom and dad get Dasha?
Speaker 2 (13:10):
You know what? They kind of pulled it us in there.
I wasn't named till three weeks after I was born,
After you were born their hippies are from California. You
just wanted to feel my vibe, you know, straight up,
We'll tell you the same thing. And my aunt called
and was like, what about Dash And my mom was like,
that's cute, but what about dash Sha? I don't mean
my kid a verb so and she liked Anna. She's
an architect, so she liked how front and back it's
(13:32):
a palindrome, you know, so Anna Dasha and they're like,
oh cool.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
That goes really well. It's super cool. All right, what's
what's the rest of the day, Like, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Hit another radio station? Sorry, busy girl. Sorry?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Tell them how they probably used to work here.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yeah, I will us up. I don't know. Oh, and
I'm plying to Philadelphia to night.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
This evening, I like to get a show or a
TV or something.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
I think they show tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Do you want to know what your schedule is?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
She would like to you always ask. I'm like, listen,
I'll check Master tour, but I couldn't tell you.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
We go the tomorrow night. You're off tonight, I'm off today,
You're off tonight.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Tomorrow you can be in Morgantown, West Virginia.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
At the Ruby Summer concerts. Here there's a free show.
You ain't getting paid the chip, free bottle of Knight.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
PEPSI seventy five minutes show. I think. I think it's
a long guy. I've never done a seventy five minutes.
I was supposed to. The lightning interrupted. It's only sixty
and I was very happy about that. That wow.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
And then you're all over and you can I mean everywhere,
like all over the South, and you're gonna be all over.
The tour goes until what Christmas time?
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Probably, I don't feel like you have an hour off
for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
You'll be back here in You're going to be in Burnsville, Minnesota. Yes,
on September twelfth of the buck Hill Concert Series Bucking
Giant down South.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yeah. Wait, I didn't know that it won't snow yet.
Very well, Yeah, you just never know gonna come or
what's up? Oh yeah, I haven't.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Been to any of their concerts heurs yet, so I
should go.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I never heard of it.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
We didn't know you were going to be here because
it was a secret show last night at with K
One on Tues.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
We didn't even know you were here.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
There you go. It was a secret, secret, big secret.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
We had a lot of fun talking to you. Dasha,
good luck, thanks you very charming and very challenging d
w B.
Show one on one point three Kati w B. Welcome
to the Space Needles Studio, Dasha. Yeah, I'm talking about
Panda Express. I don't know how it came up you.
You you are in town and they had Panda Expresses everywhere,
Dash and You're like Panda Express.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, I mean I was hungry yesterday, so I went
to the Mall of America look around and got some
pan Express here.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
You didn't go on the rides, you didn't walk around
this is the world's largest mall. You went to Panda
Express at thirty minutes. Yea, Rice is calling my name.
So you were with p one O two last night
at their big secret show and there are friends that
are They're down the hall. Yeah. So you're out on
the road. Where are where the tell me about the tour,
(00:47):
where you're going next, and all about the tour.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
So I just did my first weekend with Thomas Rhett,
which was so cool. Oh my god. He's just one
of my favorites and his whole team is so great.
Excuse me. So we're doing Thomas Rhett and then came
Brown again next week end, and then we go back
with Thomas rat for two weekends and then I go
back with Caane Brown and go to like London and
Manchester and Birmingham. Wow, support over there. Yeah, and then
(01:11):
I do a headline tour in Canada. I've ever been
to like London before? Yeah? Yeah, been there twice this
year already. Oh my god. I told that on the
elevator on the way up. I was jealous. She was
in Australia to be with my idols, the Wiggles. Sure was.
She did a song with the Wiggles. And you didn't
know about this. You didn't hear the news. Oh my god,
it's big news.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
So you did a song with the Wiggles. Does it
exist somewhere on YouTube?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Spotify?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Up everywhere Spotify.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I did a music video with them too. It was
like the lead single off their album. They just dropped
songs called Wiggle Up, Giddy Appears, a Little Clue.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Okay, amazing good. That is going to be like a
highlight of your life death.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Check this stuff out.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
By the way, we're talking to Dash if you want
to see her, We're on Dave Ryan TV right now
on YouTube if you want to watch and check that out.
As you're traveling around, I was talking to your tour
manager a minute ago, and we bonded because my son
is also a tour manager. Are you on a bus?
Are you traveling first class on Delta? You got a
private jet? Or how are we traveling?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I wish it was that, bougie. We're still starting out. Okay,
we're still starting out in Europe. I get bused because
I'm way bury in Europe than I am in the States,
which is pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, Canada will have a bus, but in the States,
I haven't had a bus yet.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
You get a sprinter van in hotels and hotels.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Okay, and sometimes I get first class. Oh, when I
upgrade myself, they give you free ginger rail. Then when oh, girls,
don't you know it in a three inch bigger seat
you started.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I was looking at Wikipedia and sometimes Wikipedia is like,
you know, it's not exactly anchorates sung and ask you
did you really start when you were like ten years old?
Like wine bars and coffee bars.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
I started gigging when I was ten wineries, coffee shops.
I started writing when I was about eight years old.
So it's always been about the songwriting for me.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Did it come out as music or poetry?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I honestly started with poetry, which is crazy. But I
was obsessed with Taylor Swift and like Britney Spears. Yeah,
and I just like Taylor specifically, like the way she
wrote songs and how she's just a genius, a lyrical genius.
And I was like, I want to be so creative
and smart with my lyrics. And I don't know, I've
just always been a very dramatic child. Okay, so me
like writing poetry about these boys that I was in lovely,
(03:25):
I was gonna say, like, what kind of feelings did
you write about? When you're so many? So many feelings
all from like movies. I mean, honestly, I had a
lot of crushes. I think I kissed like three people Kindergarten.
I feel a girl like that. I don't even know.
I was just that girl. So forbid?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
What is hard of the lyrics or of the music,
because the songwriting process is so like impressive to me?
Is the lyrics harder or the melody harder?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
For me? Lyrics are harder than melody. Melody does it
just come out of nowhere? I don't know. It's like
an antenna. I swear to God, like I'm really really
good with melodies. That's like my strength in a room.
But I mean, obviously I'm good lyrics too, I hope,
but no, for me, it's hard sometimes the piece go storyline.
That's why I like co writing so much with people
that are like really good with like concepts and like, Okay,
(04:09):
this is kind of I'm feeling this is the feeling
of the melody. What if this is the tone of
song I'm going with? Like piecing that together, like putting
together all the pieces that make it hit.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Like why I like co writing something that's the hard
part is making a radio hit, which you've done, I
mean a couple of I'll just play a clip of
Austin here so you well you'll remember I.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Think kid Bags for another.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
It's so catchy. Did you know, like, hey, this is
a radio hit? When I wrote this.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yeah, genuinely, that's the only time I've ever had that
gut feeling. Actually, when I wrote not This Party, I
had that feeling too. But when I walked out of
the room with Austin, I had the bounce, which was
so cool, and I played it the entire way home
and I was like, am I like tripping right now?
Or is this like the catchy song of her and
did I just write it right now? It is independently
with a bunch of friends, like what people made a
(05:00):
square day or like a line dance to dash a
right people to me, I made it?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
You made it?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Okay? People army to us later, Yeah, I would love
to you. Guys are probably gonna watch it, but that's okay.
It's more fun.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
We will And Dave doesn't do dances.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
He doesn't dances.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Probably have the though nothing more embarrassing than it was
an old guy on TikTok doing a dance. I've seen
friends of mine that are DJs. They're like forty eight
years old or sixty four years old on TikTok doing
a dance. I'm like, you should be embarrassed.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
If you were.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
What do you like to do? What do you like
to do when you're not? When you had time?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I played pick a ball? Yeah really. I got into
pickling this year a lot. My mom got me into
it and I was like, this is a grandma sport
and I was like, I am a grandma grandma sport
though you do have to be and I don't really
running that much, so it's like a perfect athletic thing
for me. But like it's not too hard volleyball too.
I was as maybe five yeah, in the front all around.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
But were you a badass? Though? And the reason I
asked this is because my daughter was five eight and
she got recruited to play high school volleyball. But she's
so polite. She'd be like, you get it, you get it,
you get it. You're the bitch in the front.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Then okay, I say they were a bit. No, I
was a bit in the front.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I used to get the site says it's dash, a
bitch dot, come on, come on to your website, the
tickets on it's dash.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
No.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I used to I got a yellow card one time
because every time they would like serve her, they would
like hit.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
It to us.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I'd be like, she's not gonna make it, she's gonna
mess it up. And they started messing it up as hell. Yeah,
win these games. It's all psychological, Like if someone got
in my head, I would lose, you know. So I
was just like, wow, so funny.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
I don't think I ever saw people talking is a
volleyball courts and I'm like, I had a football game, sure.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Oh you need to meet my high school team.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
It was fun, don't speaking of high school? Did you
have a job in high school? Did you work down
to the DQ or did what did you doing? Right?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
So, my mom was engaged to a fruit farmer in
high school, and so I used to work the markets
with him six am Saturdays and after school on Wednesdays
in California, Okay, And I just sell at the farmer's
market and made all the farmers and be my bubbly
self and sell apples straight up. I love that.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
At what point did you, Dasha, realize that you would
no longer need to work at the farmer's market or
learn how to you know, I don't know, I don't
know what when did you realize this is my career?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Well?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
The thing is, like I started gigging when I was ten, right,
so I'd make like one hundred bucks or fifty bucks
or like, you know, so that was also like how
I made money in high school. But I mean, I've
always had like little weird side jobs. But the thing is,
while I had these side jobs, I always just knew
it was going to work out someday, I don't know
how or when. And like two years ago, when it
hadn't quite worked out, and I just dropped my first
(07:53):
label deal, and I was like, oh my god, what
is going to happen? Like, am I failing? I was
like twenty three freaking out. And then I wrote Austin.
Then I was like I just had the feeling. I
was like, Oh, it's gonna work out. We're good. So
I'm just always kind of known in a weird way.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I'm wanna ask you this one because I'm sure you
get this all the time, Dasha, how do I break
into the business? How do I get my songs on
the radio? What? Because people ask me and I go, well,
you got to write a really good song. You're competing
with Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift and Dasha, so your
stuff has got to be really good. What do you
tell people that are like, you know, eighteen years old,
like I play the guitar? How do I get myself?
Do I break into the business?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Honestly, my biggest piece of advice is like finding what
makes you you like your sound. I feel like when
I finally had my breakout moment with Austin, it's because
I finally found that sound of like I'm such a
pop in country artist. You know, it's right on that line,
and it's so genuine. It wasn't me being like countryes
having a pink I'm gonna do that. It's like no, no, no,
I've always written country music and I also love pop music,
(08:50):
and so like it just happened. Even the feeling in
the video is it just like finally I did what
I truly liked and followed my taste. It's really hard
to do because so many people's opinions get thrown in
and like you should do that, you should wear this,
Like oh, don't do that. I don't like this song.
It's like no, no, no, cut out all that noise. It's like,
what is your taste?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
So it's a kind of a three way hybrid of country,
pop and Dasha all put together. What's the best or worst?
What comes to mind? What's the best? You used talk
about advice? What's the best or worst advice that comes
to mind? Did anybody ever say you know what you
need to do? You need to color your hair green.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I've gotten the worst advice ever. I mean people, I
think my old roommate in La told me they didn't
like Austin. They're like, I don't think it's your sound, No.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Get it?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, I remember, and I laughed because I knew it
in my gut.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I was like, no, it's a good song, it's so catchy. Off,
all right, we're gonna have some what we already are
having some fun, but we're gonna put you on the spot.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Here.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
We're gonna play a game called I don't know the
words carrayok, and we're gonna start off with this one.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, here we go.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, sorry yet yet.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Okay, I'm still scratching from the show six s.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Oh, baby baby, how was I suppose to know?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Something wasn't right?
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Oh baby baby, I should in and you go And
now I'm all beside you. Show me how you want
me to be. Tell me, baby, I need to know
now because my loneliness is killing me. I must confess
(10:42):
I still believe.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Then I'm not with you lose my mind?
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Here, give me a side so heavy baby all my time?
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yes, yeah, almost every lyric there's a couple of I realized, though,
You're right, it takes up on you, it really does.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
We played this game and we're like, we know all
these songs. When we started saying, we're like, we don't
know these.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Words, all right, talk about the new song. Oh Anna, Well.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I have the idea. Well okay, let me back up.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
We're talking to Dash. If you just turn your radio on,
you go, oh my god, is that Britney Spears.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
It's that guys, It's me Dasha. So basically last year
I had my first headline tour and at the end
of the year I kind of started losing my mind
a bit because touring for the first time is so intense,
and there's also just so much pressure on me to
like show up and go to all these interviews and
fly across the world and meet all these fans and
just be present all the time. And I had just
(11:47):
had no time to go play pickle ball and like
make myself a meal and like just be normal. And
I was just like losing who I was in my
center and like I'm just it. It was scary because
that's the one thing I've always known about myself. It's
like who I am in my vision and my confidence
and as a little girl, like I was saying, I've
never had a plan B. This has just been the
goal and I knew it was going to happen. I
(12:07):
was like, perfect, Great, I don't know how when, what?
But it's going to happen. And when it did happen,
I was just so grateful. But came with that was
like kind of like an imposter syndrome, and like I
got a lot of shit talked about me, and like
it was just oh sorry, sorry, sorry. I got a
lot of crap talked about me, and I just kind
of lost my center and lost who I was. And
(12:29):
I went into the session being like, guys, as a kid,
I just I miss her. I miss her so much, Yes,
miss yeah, And I just missed Anna so much. I
needed her back for me to be okay and for
me to keep doing this, because I want to keep
doing this so bad more than anything. But I was like,
I don't know who I am anymore, and so I
wrote oh Anna to kind of come back to who
(12:50):
I was as a child. Oh is you come back?
Little girl?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Oh? I like that. That is very cool, very nice.
We're talking to Dasha real name Anna, Dasha Novatani.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Did whoa Wikipedia?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Dasha? Where did mom and dad get Dasha?
Speaker 2 (13:10):
You know what? They kind of pulled it us in there.
I wasn't named till three weeks after I was born,
After you were born their hippies are from California. You
just wanted to feel my vibe, you know, straight up,
We'll tell you the same thing. And my aunt called
and was like, what about Dash And my mom was like,
that's cute, but what about dash Sha? I don't mean
my kid a verb so and she liked Anna. She's
an architect, so she liked how front and back it's
(13:32):
a palindrome, you know, so Anna Dasha and they're like,
oh cool.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
That goes really well. It's super cool. All right, what's
what's the rest of the day, Like, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Hit another radio station? Sorry, busy girl. Sorry?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Tell them how they probably used to work here.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yeah, I will us up. I don't know. Oh, and
I'm plying to Philadelphia to night.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
This evening, I like to get a show or a
TV or something.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
I think they show tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Do you want to know what your schedule is?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
She would like to you always ask. I'm like, listen,
I'll check Master tour, but I couldn't tell you.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
We go the tomorrow night. You're off tonight, I'm off today,
You're off tonight.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Tomorrow you can be in Morgantown, West Virginia.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
At the Ruby Summer concerts. Here there's a free show.
You ain't getting paid the chip, free bottle of Knight.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
PEPSI seventy five minutes show. I think. I think it's
a long guy. I've never done a seventy five minutes.
I was supposed to. The lightning interrupted. It's only sixty
and I was very happy about that. That wow.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
And then you're all over and you can I mean everywhere,
like all over the South, and you're gonna be all over.
The tour goes until what Christmas time?
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Probably, I don't feel like you have an hour off
for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
You'll be back here in You're going to be in Burnsville, Minnesota. Yes,
on September twelfth of the buck Hill Concert Series Bucking
Giant down South.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yeah. Wait, I didn't know that it won't snow yet.
Very well, Yeah, you just never know gonna come or
what's up? Oh yeah, I haven't.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Been to any of their concerts heurs yet, so I
should go.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I never heard of it.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
We didn't know you were going to be here because
it was a secret show last night at with K
One on Tues.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
We didn't even know you were here.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
There you go. It was a secret, secret, big secret.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
We had a lot of fun talking to you. Dasha,
good luck, thanks you very charming and very challenging d
w B.
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