Rather, this has been a feat years in the making.īut as with all wildly successful debuts, Ashe didn’t come to this moment overnight. Graduating from the Berklee College of Music in 2015 with a major in contemporary writing and production, Ashe first started putting out music in the mid-2010s. Rising to notoriety primarily through being featured on electronic tracks from DJs like Louis the Child, Whethan and more, by 2017 she was big enough to hit the road as the opening act for The Chainsmokers. Yet, as exciting as the success was, 2020 rolled around without her career growing much at all… which was beginning to make her feel antsy. “I went through a real dry spell,” she explained. “I was doubting myself, I was feeling really insecure about my writing. At the time, I had just gotten off my first full, headlining tour. It was an amazing tour and all of the fans who showed up were just amazing… but I think I felt like I should’ve been further or something. I was feeling really underestimated, but I was also underestimating myself.”īut then, something miraculous happened-in February 2019, Ashe quietly dropped a single, “Moral of the Story ” a full year later in February 2020, the song was featured in the Netflix film To All the Boys: P.S. After that, the song blew up-to date, it’s brought in over 270 million streams on Spotify alone. But, coming in right at the same time as the COVID-19 pandemic was beginning, Ashe didn’t get to enjoy that success in the way one ordinarily would. “Moral of the Story” was Ashe’s breakout hit once it was featured in To All the Boys: P.S. “There was a rise happening with my career from ‘Moral of the Story,’ but all of it was so numeric,” she said. “The success was judged on numbers-I didn’t get to feel it or experience it tangibly. Now that we’re coming out of it, I’m about to announce my second headlining tour. So, I’m finally going to get to experience the success in a tangible, ‘real people with real faces’ way. Perhaps a little odd typed-out in a web article, that double-negative there is actually pretty indicative of how Ashe communicates. With a bright mood, she speaks creatively and carefully, almost as if she’s freely searching around her mind for some kind of deeper truth while still tethered to the question at hand like an astronaut to a space station. In a lot of ways, that conversational style is mirrored by her songwriting style, which is a free-from process rich with introspection and collaboration. “I’m the kind of artist where what I write about is my life,” she said. “So, if I’m going into a session with other writers ever, I don’t want to go in with no ammunition.
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