Dasha chats with #MostRequestedLive!

Dasha joins the show and answers your questions in this exclusive #MostRequestedLive chat!

Episode Transcript

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What's up you guys. This isDasha and you are watching my iHeartRadio Ask
Anything Chat. My new song iscalled Austin And thanks to Romeo and Most
Requested Live for having me on theshow tonight and answering your questions. Okay,
first up, we got time fromChicago asking take us back a few
years. When did you first getthe call that somebody wanted to sign you
to a label? And which labelwas it? The first call I actually

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got was Warner Record. It's funnyenough who is who I ended up signing
with, So that's kind of afun little wink to the future. But
I ended up meeting up with literallyevery label, which was crazy, and
had conversations with all of them.But I don't know, something was telling
me that Warner was the right placeand I loved everyone there and everyone really
really cared about not only Austin butmy whole album that I have out,

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and that really meant a lot tome, and they saw me as like
a songwriter. So here we arenow with them. Okay. Lana,
Lana, Sorry, Lana from Nashvillesays, when do you know it's time
to release new music? What triggersyour mind? And what triggers you that
it's the right time. I thinkthat. I I mean, I write
a lot of music, so Ialways have a lot of music to put

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out and a lot of stuff thingsto say. So I think it's when
there's a little bit of for me. It's like when I have something new
to say, is when I wantto put music. I always wanted to
feel very authentic, and so I'mputting out my deluxe version of What Happens
Now in my album in late Junebecause there's just a couple more stories I
need to share with you guys fromthis album. There's a couple more a
couple more tea points that I haven'tgotten really to cover. There's some things

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about female friendships in there which Iknow we can all relate to, and
some the song called Way Too Drunk, which is about just being hungover,
just being a hungover girly and wecan't relate to that. So yeah,
Well from Statham says, have youever been vocally trained or are you self
taught? Yes, I took voicelessons all throughout high school through early early

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life. I was in muschool theaterat a super young age and like a
part of like your warm ups andlearning is like this vocal trainer who's kind
of just there kind of teaching everybodythe songs and like had to things.
So I've been through varieties of vocaltraining my whole life, and yeah,
we're in lessons now too, soit's important. Honestly, you kind of
have to treat like being an artistin your voice as like an athlete.

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You just got to train it theright way and take care of it.
It's a muscle. So okay,and from Tulsa says, what was your
day like when you performed at thecmto wards? That day was the crazies
stay of my entire life. Iwas it was like my to pinch me.
I made it moment kind of walkingthe carpet first off was insane.
I didn't know what to expect becauseI was such like a rookie. I

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of such a newbie, and soI was like, are your people gonna
know I'm here? Like, isanyone gonna care that I'm here? Like,
well, it's gonna be the what'sgonna be the vibe? And people
were so excited and I was soexcited. I was screaming back at everybody.
It was just the vibe and thenperforming my heartbeat would not slow down.
I was so excited to be there. It was just so magical.

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I go through it in my headall the time. And we're about to
post this whole BTS video that wholeday on YouTube, so you guys would
to have like the full behind thescenes look of like what that day was
actually like, So good question,Okay. Brenda from Atlanta says, how
did Austin come together? Austin cametogether? I was really upset with this

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guy plot twist, just kidding,it's obvious, and he was just not
He's just bad news, bad news, and he had all these excuses.
He did always tell me about whyhe couldn't show up or why he did
certain things, or why he wasspending the night some girls house. So
that was really fun to go through. And the whole chorus of Austin,

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I actually freesaw the first line didyour boots stop working? Did your trap
break down? And every in thesession was like what And I was like,
did your boots stop working? Andthey're like, yeah, that's it,
that's it. So that was likereally fun to be able to like
have that magic in the room cometogether. But Honestly, I was just
I was just trying to keep itreal with you guys. You know,
I'm just a girl, and Igot bamboozled by this guy. And but

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now it's just a business expense becausewe have a hit songer out of it.
So thank you, mister Nashville.You know. Okay, Mallory from
Henderson said, where did you playyour first gig as Dasha? I started
playing shows when I was ten aroundlike coffee shops and like wineries around my
hometown of Samue, Spispo. Tenpeople would show up, granted, so
but you just you know, Istarted young because I really knew I wanted

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to do this with my life andgot those early reps in if you will
say so. So, I thinkmy first I think my first show as
like Dasha the Performer was when Iwas eleven, opening up for Lyssi at
the Ohi Bowl. That was likethe first like big show I played.
That was pretty sick. That waslike a thousand people and I was like

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this eleven year old just ripping iton stage. Bartle play with me.
It was fun. It was afun. Dame Jennifer from Wilkes Barre bear,
Oh god, you guys, I'mnot good these counting Wilks Bear.
Okay, Wilkes Bear says, Iwould love to hear about your influences and
mentors in the music business. Sowow, this is a good question.

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I've been influenced by so many people. Early on, I was really I
really admired Taylor Swift and her songwriting, her ambition in general, as like
this music business, girly, she'sgetting after it. Same with Katie Musgraves
and Dolly Parton, and seeing allthese really strong independent women like overcome so
much like pushback and these critical peoplethat just can't seem to like love a

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powerful woman winning. And now Idon't know, the tables have turned,
and it's really cool to see likethese girls just powering through like all the
hate, because that's just like whathappens when you're successful. Unfortunately, but
in the music business. I wentto Belmont and I just love so many
of my songwriting teachers, my professorsthat I had, including Jody Marr.
She's great. I just went totalk to her Belmont class the other day

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actually about the come up and howAustin came about and all that stuff.
And she's really special to me.Chris Lamb from Big Machine. I was
in his class and that's funny.He taught me about radio go school.
Who else? Drew Ramsey from Belmont. There's a lot of people that I

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really look up to. Darren Clark, he was like one of my first
music teachers. Deborah Henderson. Shewas the one that took me around at
all these like shops when I waslike ten years old and would like help
me play songs and like do mylittle first gigs. So shut up to
you guys. Okay, uh Donfrom Cleveland, Ohio would like to know
do you have a closet at homejust for your performance clothes or do you

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mix them with your personal clothes?Do you ever keep your movie clothes?
Movie clothes, oh, like musicvideo clothes. Oh my closet right now
is a mess, so this isnot even a fair question. But I
keep like a lot of the redcarpet stuff I have to give back because
it's like designer stuff, the cheaterddressI got to keep to school. But

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I I think it's kind of allmixed in honestly, because I use a
lot of my performance clothes like mydaily clothes. Once I like wear them
at a performance like the Daniel Diamondlike me high Camo boots I wore at
the same TA Awards. Those arein my closet and your girl wears those
out, Like I love those boots, So I kind of incorporate those into
like my my normal style as well, which is fun. Same with like

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music video clothes, like all thestuff I wore austin music video. I've
worn it out so many times.I'm like, why not, They're cute.
I'm gonna wear it, Okay.Julia Fromknoxville wants to know what were
you taking when you went to Belmont. So I was a songwriting major.
I was taking a lot of songwritingclasses. I was in music business classes.

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I was learning about copyright law.I was learning about just like the
basics of how the music business works, publishing classes. And then I was
also in the songwriting classes that brokedown like the top forty and had all
these like technical names for like whylike different songwriting techniques. So we got
very analytical about songwriting, which wasreally cool. And I already had like

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this natural inclination of like how towrite songs and like what I wanted to
say as an artist. But itwas really cool to be able to see
the technical side of songwriting and likewhy the payoff works and naming these strategies
I've been using but actually getting tolike figure out like how like you know
what I mean. It just gotvery analytical, but in like a fun

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way, Like I felt I waseducating myself in like a very proper way
about songwriting, which was fun.What made you become a singer in the
first place. I fell in lovewith songwriting first, and also performing.
It was musical theater that got me. There's something so addicting about being in
the spotlight. There's something so magicalabout putting on a show and entertaining big

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crowds. And then when I foundsongwriting around age eight, it was just
like game over because I was like, how do I incorporate performing but also
songwriting? And I'm like, oh, I can just be an artist.
Look at that. So I releasedmy first song when I was thirteen,
and after that I just caught thebug man from Columbus, Ohio. What's
a typical day look like for youWhen you're recording, Usually get to the

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session about eleven in LA. It'susually like one. It's funny Nashville's always
eleven and La is always one.But go in usually chat for like an
hour and then you write a songand then at the end of the day
you cut the vocal. You cutlike a demo. Sometimes you like actually
get the entire song done, likea lot of the songs on my new

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deluxe version are just completely from theday one, which is like my favorite
thing to do because you have thatlike genuine excitement for the song and the
way you sing it is like somuch more real and stuff than having to
go back in and cut the vocal. So that's my preferred way to do
it. But yeah, you writethe song, you cut the vocal,
and then hopefully you're walking out ofthere with like a demo. A day
bounce is what we call it becauseit's like a rough production kind of figure

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out what you want. But sometimesit's just magic and lines up. Like
for Austin, literally what you hearis basically what we had walking out of
that session, which is so cooland that's like the true magic songwriting there,
which is sick. Taslima from OhI Know Taz from London, England,
no way, Okay, once yougo on tour, will you performing
some songs from Dirty Blonde. Also, I loved each my core proud of

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you. Thanks Taz, You're sosweet. I'm thinking about doing some Dirty
Blonde songs for sure. I thinkit'd be fun to do like a country
version of Love Me Till August andOlivia And yeah, I think so.
I think it's definitely in the scope. Okay. Gianna from Buffalo says,
who's the most famous person that you'vemet? That was a Dasha fan.

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Keith Urban texted me the other dayand that was pretty cool because I love
Keith Urban and he the text yousat me was hey, Dash ed,
this is Keith and in parentheses yousaid Urban and I was like, you
humble king, I know exactly whoyou are. Okay. Tanner from Toronto
says, will you tour in twentytwenty four? Yes, I will be

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on tour opening for Park mccolumn andthen opening or then just doing like much
of festival routes and hopefully a headlinetour at the other year. So yeah.
Autumn from Birmingham says A large percentageof your fans want to learn how
about you beyond your music? Howdo you decide where to draw the line
and when sharing your personal life.Honestly, I'm such a yapper. I'll

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just say anything anytime. So ifsomeone asks me something, it's like,
I'll just say it, which ismaybe not a good thing all the time.
I don't know. As an artist, it's funny because like you are
kind of like a product. You'rekind of like a walking product. Like,
yeah, it's my music, that'sthe product, but also it's me
who's like writing it and singing itand at the forefront of it all,
and so like I want to share. I want to keep like what I

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share with the world definitely about mymusic and sharing, you know, revealing
personal things like through the songs Iwrite and the stories I tell. That's
my favorite thing to do. Butas you guys have probably seen me on
TikTok yapping away doing my makeup.So I'm I'm I'm kind of an open
book. Also in a weird ina weird way. Okay, Kelsey from

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Pittsburgh wants to know what was yourfirst cell phone? My grandma's old BlackBerry
slide slash Flipper. I can't rememberthat that was called, but I felt
so cool that I could like textsideways and I could flip it open.
Don't ask me why I felt coolthough. Chelsea from Tulsa says, what
was your first concert you went tosee? Growing up? Green Day?

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When I was nine. We wentbecause my brother Bardo was like obsessed with
them. I actually ended up fallingasleep in the bleachers. Real story.
I was nine. I was tired, okay, and I love Green Day.
It's not why I did. It'snot my fall so I'm just tired,
so okay. Ari from NYC,do you recall the first time you
saw somebody create art of you andhow did it make you feel? Yes,

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this happened like two years ago andScirll did this beautiful like charcoal sketch
of my face and just the detail, like those small freckles, the eyebrows,
like everything was so realistic. Ilike couldn't even believe that it was
like a real picture. It wasinsane. Yeah, it made me feel
so specialm like, wow, someonespent that long looking at my face to

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like draw me out. That's crazy. Alice from Ireland says, if you
could book it, what is yourdream festival lineup? Ooh okay, it
would be your girl Dash, itwould be Miranda Lambert, it would be
Casey Musgraves, Noah Kahn, ZachBryan, Morgan, Wallen, Thomas,
Rhett Warren, Zyder's mega marony rolemodel Sizza Drake controversial right now, but

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I love Drake Lit's end with thatfor now. That was like a random
Oh could you school drop out getmy brother's band there? That'd be sick,
okay being Lena from Unix says beinginfluenced by a great female artist before
you? Who are your favorites growingup? I kind of touched on this
earlier, but like Taylor and AvrilLavigne and Britney Spears, Dolly Parton,

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Casey Musgraves are like some of mytop ones who just really inspired me on
a songwriting level, but also justas humans and who they are. I
just love how unapologetically them they are. Valve from Dallas says, if I
was to come to breakfast to thedash of house, what is the specialty
of the house. Your girl isnot the best cook. And also I
hate breakfast, so smoothie amacha latte, perhaps maybe some runny eggs I try

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for sure, But okay. Sophiafrom Franklin says Franklin, Ohio says,
didn't know that existed. Can youstill walk around in public and go unnoticed?
I get noticed a lot, actually, which is really cool, but
I still can't for sure. Igo around abop aroun. Yeah. I
got noticed on the plane ride toDallas last night by my flight attendant,

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which was really cool. He waslike, oh my god, I love
her music, and I was like, oh, I love you, per
and then I ordered two drinks becausewhy not. JENNIFERM. San Jose says,
what's your favorite fancy meal? Favoritecomfort food? Fancy meal would be
like I love beef, I lovesteak. I love a good medium filet

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with French fries M treble fries,ooh so good. And then comfort food
is like like a chicken pop pie. I can't eat gluten and so this
is like my dream to have achicken pop pie gluten free delicious. I
love chicken pop pies. I don'tknow what it is, They're just so
good, Okay. Maria from LosAngeles says, if you could hug someone

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right now, who to be mymom? I missed my mom so much.
I haven't seen her in so long. I need to get to see
her for Mother's sdake becuseide of work. I'm not ungrateful. I just miss
my mom. So my mom.Okay. Penny from Saint Louis said,
if you could be on a billboardin Times Square with one person, who
would it be and pick what themeit would be? With theme, I

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would say me and Taylor and itwould be like celebrity look alikes because people
say I look like her a lot, which is the biggest compliment. So
it'd be like, oh, celebritylook alikes, look at them? Maybe
me and Taylor looking all cute together, That's what it would be, okay.
Skott from Australia says how many songsdo you think you've written in your

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life? Genuinely? Like twenty thousand? I write a lot of songs.
A lot of them will never seethe lot of day. But I started
writing songs when I was eight,So what's the math there? Yeah,
sixteen years of writing songs a lotokay. Michelle from Norwalk says if you
randomly emptied out your pockets, whatdo you usually find? Usually like hairties,

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rappers, gum rappers, boom,proving myself etctern hair ties boom.
There you go.