hi
i'm joey yes once again here we are
connecting with one of our favorite
artists
from all the way around the world and
today it's
it's all the way around the world she's
almost exactly 12 hours away from us
she's in nashville right now it's sasha
sloane hello
hello how are you very well very well
we are going to talk about this new
album only child
and just in case there's any lingering
doubts for fans out there
sasha is an only child and so
let's start the conversation there
actually i mean i'm an only child too
and in your opinion um what are some of
the advantages and disadvantages of an
only child advantage
you get all the attention yep
um you have to share that's right which
is also a disadvantage
because you have to figure out how to do
that later in life
um i don't know what do you what do you
think i think
maybe a disadvantage is not having
people to commiserate when your parents
are being maybe a little out of their
minds
mine yeah um
no one to fight with but i really like
miss
like um envy people who have like
siblings and
and missing like my best friend had a
sister in high school and she would
always pick her up
and i was like that's so cool and like
my mom would pick me up and i'd be like
that's so lame
stuff like that yeah you're right about
uh no one to fight with
no one to pull your hair no one to push
you into dangerous things
you know we're missing out i guess maybe
it's a good thing
but let's first address the big purple
elephant in the room
your first studio album i'm sure you had
a lot of
beautiful things planned for it and then
cover 19.
so how did you how did you uh you know
poise yourself
after that yeah so i live with my
producer because we're dating which is
super cringy and i was like i'm never
gonna date a producer and here we go but
that's so convenient now isn't it
that you your creative partner oh
honestly this
this year it was like a dream come true
[Laughter]
um so yeah it was definitely
not how i envisioned making my debut
album
um because it was all from my
living room basically um
but it was cool because it kind of
forced me to live in my own bubble which
you know when you're creating something
it comes with this element of
fear where you go is when i'm creating
total
shite and then you're just worried about
that the whole time and you go around
showing people and everyone has
different tastes
and has different opinions and it makes
you start to question your own taste
yeah so i didn't
do that this time around just because i
i didn't even really get to
it was like the amount of people i
showed the album 24 came out was
i could count on one hand so that was
cool um
but it is weird having it be out in the
world and like not being able to tour
and not seeing anyone but my boyfriend
and my dog
yeah because it doesn't feel like it's
out in a way
at least for the fans we kind of
appreciate it because we get the truest
side of you and big thanks of course to
henry king henry for making this happen
and to be your echo chamber and
bounce ideas off he's a trooper he is a
trooper isn't it
i'm sure there are nights when you are
up and you can't sleep and he has to
deal with
the voices inside your head he hears
them loud and clear
[Laughter]
oh gosh so okay i checked spotify and
you have this very interesting way to
promote only child
which is uh you basically go through a
personality test
of uh i think four or three simple
questions
and most of them are of course
references to songs you've written
right and once you've answered all of
them then it gives you
um sort of a label like what kind of
only child or what kind of sad girl
you are so sasha i took your sac girl
test
oh i'm very serious i'm an emo only
child is it right
yeah i'm a nemo only child that's why i
like your music darn it but
how would you answer these questions
okay so okay uh let me ask you
these questions here right now where do
you most like
to cry in the rain so nobody can see my
tears or i'm too sad to cry
i'm too sad to cry i thought so you did
write a song about that didn't you
uh who are you more likely to take a
call from your mom
or your ex definitely my mom yeah
yeah that second option was strange to
me i thought why would i take
a call from my ex over my mom you know
the
thought behind that was what if you're
still hung up on your ex
oh yeah of course which i guess you're
not no
no i'm married now so i don't have i
don't even have that option
[Laughter]
um last one uh what do you go to greater
lengths to avoid
mirrors or parties i mean right
currently parties
well yeah or cardi's parties have too
many people deathly parties
yeah that's my biggest fear currently
i figured all right um let me recite a
line of your lyrics
of my favorite two songs and i want you
to tell me more about it okay
okay so this first one is uh it goes
the second that you called me yours i
had something worth living for now i'm
scared of planes and heart attacks
if i die i'll never get you back what
song is this and how did you write it
this song is called hypochondriac yeah
um
and it was actually the first song
i wrote for the album oh is that right
um yeah and it was actually
pre-quarantined
pre-koban which is pretty funny that's
that's like 2019.
at least for the us it was um in
february of 2020.
okay um and yeah my boyfriend i sat down
and i was like i have this idea
called hypochondriac um because
this is true i mean now i'm like a total
hypocrite like
i'm next level now like wear gloves when
i pump gas and stuff
but um yeah it was funny because when i
first met my boyfriend
i smoked a lot i
drank a lot i just treated my body like
crap
and i didn't really care i just i was
like 21
i was like whatever and then the deeper
i fell in love with my boyfriend the
more i started to care about my life and
being alive and i became a hypochondriac
and that's what it was inspired about
and i i am a hypochondriac now like
i'm going i'm literally going to see
doctor tomorrow just because i think
there's something wrong with me but
there never
is thank god i think better safe than
sorry right
just want to be sure every time i go the
doctor's like well you probably
should get on anxiety medication and i'm
like no it's okay
so you're a hypochondriac who resists
help yeah help
exactly good times um okay
uh next one next one this goes i want to
live in a world where
things i believed as a kid actually
exists and nobody's
excuse me and everybody's good to each
other which song is this
and i want to hear about the creative
process this song is called
santa's real um
this is like the first song i ever wrote
that wasn't
about me it was more about the world
um and i think it took a pandemic for me
to actually think about
something bigger than the bubble i live
in um
and it was the first time masks were
required
okay um here and i remember my boyfriend
and i were at the grocery store and
everyone had masks on i was like this is
kind of spooky
and then i saw these kids running around
wearing masks um
but it was like they didn't know why
they had to wear them and they were just
playing and having fun
in it i looked at my boyfriend's like
man it would be really cool to be a kid
right now
where you like have parents and you're
protected and you
you know things are like weird but you
don't know why
yeah yeah um and so that's how i wrote
santa's real and
i do wish she was real it would be
pretty nice
but i love the song because it tells us
so much of the fairy tales that we grew
up with
including santa but mostly about how
people are supposed to be nice to each
other and then you grow up and you think
oh no that's not the way it is and
you have to you have to juggle that's uh
that balance of reality and
the fairy tale you're fed as a child no
reality is
not fun yeah it's not um you said
you said some pretty profound stuff
sasha in this album and of course
um the song that um is it just me
um it does cover a lot of uh the
profound stuff and i heard
i was reading some of your interviews
and uh because of you i started uh
reading
unpopular opinion by the way thank you
for that i
love reddit so much like every night
before i go to bed
i should read a book but i just cruise
read it until
i fall asleep and um i wrote down the
idea and popular opinion as like a title
or a lyric or something
and then it's like the lyrics slowly
morphed from unpopular opinion to is it
just me
um yeah it was a really fun one to write
it was really hard actually
those lyrics were like finding the
balance of like
fun and dark and not crossing a line
and not not crossing the line it was
it's fun but you did cross the line when
you said uh the show friends is
overrated
because i heard you got some backlash
for that didn't you apparently they
that's the most controversial thing you
can ever say
i am yeah i i didn't see that one coming
people really love friends they did they
did
and the thing is i i had to reflect on
that show
uh recently and if you really look back
at it
they're terrible friends to each other
like this show is not setting a good
role model for anybody
i also like whatever i grew up watching
seinfeld
that's where my company like curb and
that type of humor
so but like i do in the office and if
someone attacked the office i would be
really funded so i understand
where people are coming from well
whatever the case it is uh people are
only triggered because they're actually
listening to your music
and i'm sure it's because they love you
so don't forget everyone only child is
out
and christmas is almost near so before
we go do you want to say happy christmas
merry christmas to all of your
fans and listeners here in taiwan yes
happy christmas i hope you guys
have an awesome and safe one um thank
you so much for listening to my music
it means the world and i wouldn't be
able to get to do what i do without you
guys so
thank you thank you sasha bye thanks
nice to meet you
bye