Dasha put a ton of labor into her single “Austin,” however the response to the observe and viral TikTok line dance nonetheless knocks her again on her heels.
“The tempo at which my life is altering is alarming,” she advised Us Weekly once we caught as much as the California-born Nashville resident. “[‘Austin’] flipped [my life] on its head.”
The previous pop singer took a flip towards nation music on her 2024 album What Occurs Now? She choreographed a line dance to advertise the kiss-off anthem, however had no thought how effectively it will work.
“Did your boots cease workin? / Did your truck break down? / Did you burn by means of the cash? Did your ex discover out?/The place there’s a will then there’s a means and I’m rattling positive you misplaced it / Didn’t even say goodbye / Simply want I knew what precipitated it,” Dasha, 24, sings on the observe that was ripe for an brisk little bit of boot-scooting. She wished to verify the track discovered its viewers.
“The entire, like, North Star of beginning the road dance and all the things was to get ‘Austin’ performed in honky tonks. Into the rotation, you already know?” she mentioned. “So long as it will get performed in honky tonks, like, that’s all I need out of this entire factor.”
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Dasha bought what she wished and extra with billions of views on TikTok and her first single to interrupt the Billboard Prime 40. “Austin” at the moment sits at No. 25 on the Billboard Sizzling 100, its highest place but.
“Like three days in, I bought hit up by so many DJs with movies of like 30 individuals doing it,” she mentioned. “So quick. And that’s once I was like, if that is taking place in three days…”
Dasha spent the weekend performing for her largest-ever crowd at CMA Fest and collaborating with Keith City on a mashup of “Austin” and Johnny Money’s “Jackson.”
“I’m so giddy about life proper now,” she mentioned.
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Even when she’s collaborating with pop-country royalty, Dasha nonetheless has a number of targets. She advised Us that she’d like to collaborate with one other pop-turned-country singer: Put up Malone. She shared a surreal second the place she bumped into the chart-topper, and he complimented her single.
Put up Malone is ditching beerbongs and Bentleys for rhinestone fits and pickup vans. Malone burst onto the scene in 2016 with the entice/hip-hop sounds of “White Iverson,” however he hasn’t stayed in that lane. From the choice rock sounds of “Circles” to his heavy-metal love on “Take What You Need” (which options Ozzy Osbourne) and […]
“Put up is like such an unimaginable songwriter and artist, and I like him as a human a lot. I’d like to be buddies with him and write songs with him,” she mentioned. “And so him figuring out my track, I used to be like, wow, that’s such a praise.”
