Episode 2106 - The Neena Rose Effect

Neena Rose is a Canadian singer and songwriter who has captivated the music industry with her impressive talent and a string of successful releases. Hailing from Hamilton, Ontario, Rose gfirst burst onto the scene in 2018 with her breakout single "Games," and she has continued to build a strong following ever since.

Since her debut, Neena Rose's music has garnered significant attention, amassing over 12.4 million streams across all digital platforms and being featured on more than 240,000 playlists. Her popularity extends to social media, where she boasts over 875,000 followers on TikTok.

A recognized artist, Neena Rose was honored with a double nomination at the Hollywood Independent Music Awardsin 2023 for "Original Recording of the Year" and "Best Pop/Rock Song of the Year." She won in the "Original Recording of the Year" category. Her accolades also include being one of only six Canadians nominated for the Hollywood Music and Media Awards in 2019. In a historic moment for Canadian music, she and three fellow nominees received a standing ovation at Queens Park from the Provincial Members of Parliament.

Neena Rose's musical journey began early. At just 12 years old, she recorded her debut single "Rock N Roll Lullaby" with Diamond/Platinum producer Roy "Royalty" Hamilton III (known for his work with Britney Spears and Nas). Since then, she has collaborated with a variety of award-winning producers from Toronto, Los Angeles, and Europe. Her performance experience is just as impressive; she has performed for audiences as large as 14,000 and even for Oprah Winfrey in her hometown.

With a strong presence across platforms like Instagram, YouTube, and SoundCloud, Neena Rose continues to grow her career and connect with a global audience.

TikTok: @neenarosemusic
IG: @neenaroseofficial
Web: https://www.neenarosemusic.com

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
What are does like your world?

Speaker 2 (00:04):
It is your girl, the one and only Ash Brown
and this is the Ash said It show over two
thousand episodes since twenty Wow twenty fourteen and half a
million streams around the world. It's unbelievable. I can still
just picture myself recording these interviews and recording these shows

(00:24):
randomly wherever. So I thank you guys for all of
your love, all of your support. It makes a huge difference.
Today we are talking with singer songwriter ourself, the amazing
Nina Roads. Hey, Nina, Hello, Hey, thanks for having me,
Thanks so much for joining us. How are you doing today?

Speaker 3 (00:44):
I'm great, loving fun today.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yes, yes, the beautiful sun so Nina. For people that
are you know, maybe they're new to your music, you know,
maybe they just heard about that Nina Rose, that's superman
that's been loading around everywhere. Let everyone know a little
bit about your background and how you got started in singing.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yeah, I mean, it's a funny story. The first memory
I had of singing was when I was like three
or four and I was at an anniversary party to
one of my parents like great uncles, and there was
a pianist there. She had a microphone, and she was just,
you know, entertaining at this restaurant and I kept eyeing
the mic, and I guess she could see that I
was literally stalking her, and she's like, do you want

(01:30):
to sing something? And I was like yeah. So she
let me sing Twinkle Twinkle and everybody was like, wait,
why was that kind of good? So they put me
in lessons like a few years later, and then, honestly,
it's just it's been me ever since.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yes, that is That's an awesome story. I love that
at that early age you just kind of knew it.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
So when was the transition for you as far as
taking it from a hobby and something fun to this
in your career.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
M h.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
I mean, it's funny because ever since, I want to say,
I was like ten, I knew it was going to
be my career. And I met my now manager when
I was I think I was eleven, so it's yeah,
she wasn't my manager then obviously, but she was like
a really good mentor for me. And then she had
this program in twenty fourteen where basically they taught young

(02:24):
kids like the music industry and the ins and outs
and how it's it's not as fun and glamorous as
it always looks. So I did that when I was
like thirteen, fourteen and ever since then. Yeah, just it's been.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Work, work, work.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
That's a really solid foundation, I definitely say because a
lot of people, me myself, I've kind of been in
the background of entertainment for quite some time. So I've
seen a lot of things in the industry, and one
of the top things that always kind of just tugs
at my heart is seeing young performers that don't understand

(02:59):
the business aspect of it. You know, songwriting is great,
it's fun, you get to pour your heart and soul
into music, but you could easily fall into a bad
element if you don't understand the business aspect of things.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
And my manager has always been so adamant about that,
So I am happy the education background. Yeah, because it's true.
This industry is like five percent music.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
It will it will eat you alive. I've seen this.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Oh my goodness, so super mad.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
All right. It's all about that powerful moment of unmasking
and realizing your own worth beyond the romantic context of things.
Have there been other unmasking moments in your career that
have significantly helped to shape your self perception, especially because I've.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Been doing it for so long. You know, I've been
through a lot of genres, you know, different styles of writing,
and I think it's just coming to terms with like,
you don't need to be anything for anybody else as
long as you're good with yourself and so like in
the beginning, I was exploring like super pop music that
I didn't really resonate with, but I felt like I

(04:14):
needed to do to be commercial. And then I just
kept exploring different genres that didn't really feel authentic, but
I felt like it might work in the industry. And
I found that the only time that it's really really
worked and resonated with people was when I gave it
my true, authentic self. Like even my song Warzone is
the first one that really really blew up, and that

(04:35):
was the first time that it was just me in
the piano honestly, Like it was very, very vulnerable, and
I feel like people needed to see that authentic part
of me rather than me trying to give them what
I think they want.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Right right, yes, now, Your music, particularly Superman, is celebrated
for its vulnerability and honesty in an industry that often
pressures artists to present a curated image of themselves. How
do you navigate maintaining that authentic vulnerability in your songwriting process?

Speaker 3 (05:11):
I mean, for me and especially the songs that will
be coming out later on this year, I find that
the lyrics are so much wittier and like, I love
being funny, like especially to being a carpenter. She has
a few lines, but like there's no way to just
put that in a song right now, and I love
that sou I feel like it takes something that for
us is so serious because it is a career, but

(05:32):
it brings the fun back into it, and it lets
the viewers feel like and the listeners that it's also
fun you know, to listen to do so definitely.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
Now you've collaborated with incredible Grammy winning producers who you
know who compare working with you to legends like Whitney
Houston and others. What's one unexpected lesson or advice that
you've take taken away from these high level collaborations.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
Hmmm, great question. I mean, I feel like this is
kind of a given, but I mean for some people
it's not, but it's protocol in the studio, Like because
I have worked with so many like huge names and
big producers. There is a certain protocol when you get
in the studio and in the booth that you need
to follow. And I feel like nobody really talks about

(06:25):
it or teaches and like I've learned it from you know,
being in the situations and learning it through experience. But
a lot of artists will get thrown into these rooms
with these huge writers and producers and they don't know,
you know, the certain lingo, the terms, and I think
that's really really important to learn before getting into those rooms.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yeah, that's definitely a really big part of it. And
with over eight hundred and seventy five thousand TikTok followers,
you've clearly mastered connecting with your massive audience on social media.
So how do you intentionally use platforms like TikTok to

(07:05):
not just promote your music but amplify your message of empowerment?

Speaker 3 (07:10):
Yeah? I mean, I think the first sort of batch
of videos that were going viral on TikTok for me
were the freestyles, and for those, it wasn't even about
getting out there. Honestly, I started posting them because they
were fun and I really liked it and I was like, hey,
I didn't even like to do that. So I kept
posting those and I think the passion behind it and

(07:31):
like that I was actually having fun making the videos
really resonated with people. And I also love to tell
people how to do things and keeps and empower them
to also try. And so I've gotten so many dms
of people being like, oh, I listened to your song
or I listened to your freestyle and it made me
want to do one, and here I'll send it to
listen to it, and I'm like, I love that I

(07:53):
can have that sort of I want to say influence,
but like just inspiring people to do what they love
and just try, even if it's well dauncing at first.
I think that's the biggest thing for me.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
Definitely, Definitely Now looking forward, what is the next chapter
you're most excited to explore, both musically and.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Maybe theatrically.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
You know what's in the works for Nanos.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
Well, the last few years I've been writing NonStop, and
I have so so much music in the vault that
I've been waiting on that is just some of my
favorite stuff I've ever written. And so Superman is the
first I would say of that that that I'm really
really really excited about. So yeah, so this year there's
going to be a lot more hits come in.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
Okay, cool, cool, Yeah, And I want to talk a
little bit about your songwriting process. So, like when you
were making Superman, what is that like for you?

Speaker 1 (08:51):
Do you?

Speaker 2 (08:51):
Are you out in nature somewhere? Are you in the
studio with the notepad? What does that look like?

Speaker 3 (08:59):
My favorite it sort of set up is just to
be in the studio with another writer and a producer.
I just like to bounce ideas I have ADHD. So
if it's just me, I'm all over the map. So
I like to have somebody else there to kind of
ground me. But for Superman specifically, I was with another
writer and we were talking about, you know what it
was going to be about telling him an experience about

(09:22):
this guy who I thought was, you know, so perfect
or I thought he would maybe become perfect one day
just because I wanted him to and he didn't. And
so we were talking about that and I'm like, I
thought it was the one thing that could change him.
I said that line and then he said, WHOA, That's
kind of like how Superman is with Kryptonite. Like this
one weakness and we're like, oh my god, we need

(09:44):
to run with that. And so that's kind of how
Superman was born.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
I love that. That is so awesome, Nita. You have
an incredible career ahead of you. I tip my hat
to you and all you're amazing acomplishments and all the
things that are to come.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
So thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
Absolutely, let everyone know the best way to connect with you,
to follow you, and to keep up with everything which
is musical you.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yeah, my Instagram is Nina Rose Official and e E
n a Rose Official. You can send me a DM
on there, give you a follow, and then TikTok is
Nina Rose Music and yeah, I got YouTube. I'm obviously
on Spotify, app music, all the platforms you can possibly imagine.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yes, sounds like the plan, Nina. This has been incredible.
Thank you so much for coming through. We're gonna have
to have you back because I know there's going to
be new music and new stuff, so we.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
Love Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
I appreciate it, no problem, and I appreciate each and
every one of you guys. Thank you so much for
your love and support. Keeping in mind anyone to tell
you that you can't do what you want to do.
You look them square in the face, you tell them,
don't believe me. Just watch watch what I do, Watch
me make it happen, Watch me make history. That's what
we're doing this for the history books. Social media is nice,

(11:09):
but real life is so much better. Until next time,
you guys,