What’s the experience been like for you as you craft your first album? I feel like the ideas are always floating around me, I just have to be in the right headspace/moment to get a hold of them and mold them into something. A lot my songs have started as a phrase or a concept, or even something that someone said in conversation. But I don’t always follow the same formula. The process usually starts with fiddling on the guitar, trying to find a new chord progression, and then I add melody and lyrics. There have been situations where I start a song and then I don’t get time to finish it because I have to be somewhere, so I’ll be sitting in the car humming things into my voice memos, or walking somewhere and typing a verse down. Tash: I’m always, always, always writing. How does the songwriting process work for you? Are you constantly writing? ‘Manifest’ Season 4: Release Date, Cast & More You Need To Know Although the world of social media does scare me at times, it has made a huge impact on the way I discover new music and promote the music I’m writing. I’m always looking for new music to add to my playlists, and social media has surprisingly helped me discover a lot of great finds. It has become so easy to discover new music, one minute you’re watching someone’s story, and the next you’re Shazaming the song that’s playing in the background. You can reach a wide audience of people with literally the push of a button. Tash: Social media and the internet have so much power, especially in the music industry. It all happened really fast.įor you as a singer/songwriter, how important is social media and the internet? After talking over the phone, he met my parents over Skype and then a couple of weeks later he put a record deal on the table, and the rest is history. Anyway, I thought little of those Ariana Grande covers I used post until Mark told me how impressed he was by them. I remember dancing around my room like an idiot when I found out he’d worked with Beyonce. Fourteen-year-old me was having a heart attack at this point. The other founder of the company was a grammy-nominated producer who had worked with many big names, and she told me she’d shown him my Instagram, and he wanted to speak to me over the phone. She told me her father was the co-founder of an independent record label which was looking for artists to sign. There was this annual talent quest that my high school used to do every year, and I decided to enter and perform an original song, which to my surprise, caught the attention of one of my peers, who contacted me a couple of weeks later. I think I had about 1000 followers at the time. Tash: I had my Instagram for about a year or so before I got discovered. You were discovered on Instagram, how did it all happen? Of course they would encourage me to pick up instruments when I was younger and to perform when I had the opportunity to, but it was predominantly my own interest to pursue music. Honestly, I’ve never felt any kind of pressure to follow in my parents’ footsteps. Growing up with musical parents and siblings only further encouraged my interest in music. You come from a musical family, was there ever a part of you that didn’t want to do what your parents did? Now I look back and realize I always had the urge to create music but never really knew about it until I started learning guitar at 13. But I didn’t think of it as songwriting, I was just doing it to pass the time. I remember when I was about 8 years old, the house I grew up in had a swing-set in the backyard, and I used to sit on the swings and sing at the top of my lungs (sorry to my neighbours, oops), and I would make up songs on the spot for hours. Tash: I’ve always loved singing since the beginning, but I didn’t discover my passion for writing songs until much later when I was 13. How early on did you know that you wanted to become a singer/songwriter?
She believes that the more “vulnerable you are with your music the better,” and that’s why she “can’t wait” to have her “heart broken someday.” Check out the full interview below. Tash talked with HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY about growing up in a musical family, the impact of social media on artists today, her songwriting process, and more. Feist on Instagram, where she has posted several amazing covers. The singer was discovered by multi-platinum record producer and songwriter Mark J. Nicki Minaj Rocks Plunging Corset Top While Leaving NYC Hotel After Epic VMAs Performance: Photo Lindsay Lohan & Brother Dakota Recreate 'The Parent Trap' Throwback Photo In London Search Hollywood Life Search Trending Navigation Trending Latest Hollywood Celebrity & Entertainment News Primary Menu Menu Close Menu