Dasha

Especially when you're in sessions.

In Nashville, I think... Nashville, the heartbeat of that town is its songwriters.

And it's like the coolest thing in the entire world having...

that reputation and that just undertone to everything it's all about songwriters and cutting other people's songs and all that stuff but i think what comes with that is the pressure to write these like perfect songs with the perfect payoff and the perfect twist you know and so i find myself in sessions with these huge nashville songwriters who have these huge cuts and so you're thinking oh my god these are great songwriters i should probably trust whatever they say and we'll get to a point in this song where i'm like okay i don't really see how this is working but they're trying to

You know, they're still trying to find the diamond.

They're trying to find it.

And I'm like, that's not what music's about.

But sometimes solving the song works.

That's the crazy part.

And you get this insane hook that I'm like, wow, that is genius.

That is mathematically, lyrically genius.

And sometimes I'm just like, this song does not want to be solved this way.

Yeah.

You know?

Oh man, it was like probably a year into Austin doing its thing and

I was really struggling and it was the first time in my life that I've really felt like hit that low point.

My self-confidence was gone.

My opinions and my just awareness of self.

And I've always like been confident.

really aware of like who i am and my personality has been very strong and i know exactly what i think and that's just always how i've been super confident and it got to a point where i was started listening so much to people's comments online yeah and i was like straight up getting bullied online like anything i did was just like you dumb whore like shut up no one likes you