Today’s guest can make you cry in your car, question your life choices, and somehow sing along to a song about stopping a wedding. She’s got the pen, she’s got the pipes, and she knows a thing or two about turning life’s messiest moments into songs you can’t get out of your head.
And The Writer Is… Ashe!
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Introducing Ashe
01:28 From “Moral of the Story” to “Stop the Wedding”
04:05 Why Her Biggest Songs Don’t Follow the Formula
05:30 Bringing Your Best Ideas Into a Writing Session
09:08 The Wedding-Day Idea Behind “Stop the Wedding”
11:35 Ashe Plays Her Original Voice Notes
14:14 NMPA & Splice 16:03 Reuniting With Noah Conrad
17:42 Making a Major Label Work for Her
24:29 Why Ashe Almost Quit Music
27:15 The Therapy Exercise That Changed Everything
31:03 Growing Up and Finding Songwriting
37:46 Remembering Her Brother
43:16 Berklee, EDM and Finding Her Own Sound
49:47 The Marriage Behind “Moral of the Story”
54:29 Tempo Changes and Trusting Your Taste
57:30 What “Stop the Wedding” Really Means
1:00:28 Would She Change Her Past?
1:03:43 Meeting FINNEAS
1:04:59 The Year Before “Moral of the Story” Took Off
1:09:46 The Favors and Falling in Love With Music Again
1:12:55 The Reality of Being an Independent Artist
1:18:38 Fighting for the Music to Be Heard
1:24:48 The Math of Songwriting
1:31:48 Artist vs. Songwriter
1:35:08 Redefining Success
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Produced by Joe London and Jad Saad
Edited by Jad Saad
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