Anna is an extraordinary young woman who is breaking barriers
for not only athletes, but for women.
Anna Gasser wins the gold medal!
Watching her fly through those mountains,
it almost feels like superhuman, what she does.
I'm super excited.
I'm meeting Sofia, a great singer.
And oh, I can't wait. It's going to be a fun day.
Yes, I was pretty nervous
because I'm not a musician at all.
-Like this, brrr. -What?
-Are you ready? -I'm ready.
-Okay. -Yeah, let's do it.
I'm very clumsy, and I have never snowboarded before.
So I was definitely nervous that I was perhaps,
going to most likely fall.
Oh, boy.
I am super excited for today.
I am a little bit nervous
because we are at a recording studio
and I'm not a singer.
I'm Anna Gasser, and I am a professional snowboarder
and an Olympic gold medalist.
-Anna Gasser wins gold! -First place, Austria.
Anna Gasser!
Anna Gasser of Austria wins the gold medal.
I started pretty late, I watched my cousins snowboard
and I thought it looked so cool.
And when I first time strapped in, I just loved it.
I found it as my new passion.
I like it so much because of the feeling it gives me.
It kind of gives me a feeling of freedom.
And I forget everything when I'm on my snowboard.
So today is actually a pretty cool day.
We are going to be meeting Anna,
who is an Olympic athlete, and she's coming to the studio.
My name is Sofia Carson, and I am an actor,
a songwriter, musician and a philanthropist as well.
Sofia! Sofia! Look at me, look at me.
When I was 18, moved here to go to UCLA.
My life changed when I got a role
on a Disney movie called The Descendants,
and that changed my life forever.
-Hi! How are you? -Hey!
-So good to see you. -So nice to meet you too.
You look so beautiful.
-You look better. -Thank you.
Oh my God, you're so sweet, ditto.
So you recorded a lot of songs here?
Yes, I've recorded a lot of songs here,
I've written a lot of my music here,
so I kind of wanted to bring you into my world.
I'm so excited. I don't know anything about this.
-Amazing. -So this is a whole new
-experience for me. -Amazing.
So I figured I would walk you through the process,
the songwriting process, play you some music,
and maybe you can sing a little bit?
No...
I'm a better listener than singer.
Okay, first things.
I was pretty nervous because it's so out of my comfort zone.
But meeting her I feel like we had a good chemistry
and she's such a great person.
Come on in.
Welcome, this is Amber.
-Hello. -Hey! What's going on?
-This is Anna. -Nice to meet you.
-Nice meeting you. -Glad to meet you, welcome in.
This is my first time in a studio.
I have never, I've never seen this before, I'm so excited.
-We're excited to have you. -Thank you.
This is kind of where it all happens.
I think people would be surprised by
what it does take to bring a song to life.
There are so many people involved,
and it's just a process that's hard to describe
unless you live it with someone.
Because it's like creating something
out of thin air, which is pretty magical.
Did you always make music or?
I, yes, I don't remember a moment in my life
when I wasn't in love with music,
and I knew that it was more so
than what I did, but it was who I am.
And I wrote my first song when I was 10.
I just always knew that I had to do this.
It's been an incredible journey of getting to do
what I love every single day and making music and...
Now the song that we are going to play today
is called "He Loves Me, But..."
And when we wrote this one,
this was based off of a true story.
-Oh, wow. -I wanted to write a song
that kind of twisted heartbreak on its head
and turned it into like a celebration of freedom
because we've heard too many times,
"I love you, but..."
It's like, do you love with half a heart?
Yeah, that's a very strong message.
-Exactly. -Yeah.
-It's not to be loved at all. -Right.
And so that's kind of how
this song was born, and sometimes it starts
with a melody, sometimes with a lyric.
-That's so cool. -And we can play it.
I'm very excited to listen to it.
-Yeah, let's play something. -Yeah!
Yeah, turn it up.
Oh yeah, nice.
Tell me did you know Right from the start
That we would end up right here
I'm not a musician at all.
So it was so cool to see that in life
for the first time.
He says it's best for me
But don't really Remember him asking
He loves me, loves me, loves me
And then she like showed me how she played it on the piano.
I'm going to just teach you kind of three basic chords.
But just, you're going to do what my left hand
-would do and I'll do my right. -Yeah.
So start with your first finger here.
-Yeah, okay. -And then,
so you're going to play, when I play this chord,
you're going to do what my thumb does,
-which is... -Oh.
-This one. -Okay.
And then you're going to play this one.
-So just go from here, -Here?
-to there, try that again. -Okay.
-There? -There, right.
-There? -There.
So exactly, you press G.
And then A.
Press A again, G, A, okay.
So try again G.
No, that's A. There we go, next to it.
G, perfect.
-So G, A, G, A. -Okay.
It'll be like, "Tell me..." Here.
"Tell me did you know right from the start,
then we would end up right here where we are?
Oh you're such a good guy, play the part.
Showing up with only half a heart."
-Wow. Great. -Look at that!
To learn how you produce a song and how like music
kind of comes to life is so special.
If you're up for it,
I would be so honored if you went into the studio
into the studio and you recorded that with me.
I really hope I don't ruin the song with my singing.
No you won't, you'll make it magical.
I really cannot sing.
And especially, your voice is so amazing!
And then later tonight, you teach me some snowboarding.
I'll teach you a little bit of this so it will be...
And then we're even, you say!
-Exactly. -We're both uncomfortable
-but we try. -Exactly, yes.
I feel like a lot of people
can feel with me on that one.
One, I'm a bad singer, and there were
a lot of cameras and people.
So who wants to sing in front
of all those people when they can't sing?
Okay, ready?
-Do you wanna warm up a little? -I'm gonna sing...
-Like this, brrr. -What?
-Brrr. There you go. -Brrr?
Perfect!
She really made me feel so welcome
that I just tried it and let go.
So it's, "He says it's best for me,
but I don't really remember him asking me."
And then it repeats, "He says it's best for me,
but I don't really remember him asking..."
-First mistake. -No, all good.
All good, all good, all good.
Okay, I'll sing it a couple of times.
-Okay. -So, "He says it's best for me,
but I don't really remember him asking me."
You know what, I can pull the lyrics up
-so we can read them together -Yes, please!
because usually what I do when I'm recording anyway.
Did you know Right from the start
That we would end up...
-Are you excited? -Yeah.
Five, six, seven eight.
"He says it's best for me,
but I don't really remember him asking me.
He says it's best for me,
but I don't really remember him asking."
Yeah!
She was awesome.
I mean, it's all about the intention
and the confidence and the story that you tell.
And she was just like, dedicated to it.
And she was sassy and fun. She was great.
You said music is your life so performing is your passion?
-Yeah. -Are you never,
do you never feel pressure, because when I go out
for a competition, that's when I'm so nervous.
And after the competition is when I can relax.
Even though I love snowboarding,
the competition part is the one thing I'm like,
nervous about, are you never nervous?
Of course, I guess we're both
performing in very different ways.
But also the pressure, perhaps,
-that you have one shot, right? -Yeah.
-And the world is watching. -And you want to do good.
Exactly, and show what you're capable of,
even just for yourself to make yourself proud.
Yeah, always, I call them butterflies that I get.
-I get butterflies too! -Butterflies, yeah.
-I get butterflies. -So that connects us.
I mean, to think that I have anything in common
with an Olympic athlete is surreal.
But we kind of found a lot of similarities also
in what we feel when we are performing.
Are you ready to hear what we sounded like?
-You ready? -Let's do it.
-All right. -Please no.
He says it's best for me
But I don't really Remember asking him me
He says it's best for me, But I don't really
Remember him asking.
He loves me, loves me, loves me
Amazing!
I was thinking, should we go walk
around Hollywood Boulevard a little bit and explore L.A.?
-Yeah. -Yeah?
So welcome to Hollywood Boulevard.
We walked the Walk of Fame,
and yes, she made me feel Hollywood for a day.
Anna is an Olympic athlete.
-Four-time gold medalist. -One time.
She's, what did you...