Sasha Sloan

Can you give us. Can you give some advice? I know it's like, when you're humble and an introvert, it's hard to give advice because, you know, like, what do I have to offer? But I'm really interested in your advice to songwriters and to artists. Like, if you can give yourself some advice, if that makes it easier.

Yeah. What are some of your key valuable lessons as, like, a songwriter and just a songwriter or songwriter artist? I'm actually interested in the songwriter part of it, which is just being in sessions, but I'm also interested in the pure artist sessions. Like, top three lessons from both worlds.

Yes. I think if I could go back in time, I would just say if it doesn't feel right, it's not right. If your gut.

If a little bit of your gut is going, I don't love this song, don't put it out. As an artist, as an artist, as a songwriter, you probably won't like most of the songs that you write. No, I'm just kidding.

No. As a songwriter for other artists, you don't have as much control. And I think a lot of being a songwriter is reading the room as much as it is being talented.

Like, there are some days in a riot where, like, you will lead the session. It will be your idea. You'll have the melodies, you'll have the lyric.

And then some days you'll feel like, what am I even doing in this room? But, like, you need to know when to speak up, when to let the artist do their thing. I think that's a really valuable lesson, too, is like, knowing when to read the room and knowing that if you didn't do as much as you might have done the day before doesn't mean you're a bad songwriter. And if you get a bad song, you're not a bad songwriter.

You just had a bad day, and you need a thousand bad songs for 10 great ones. That's something I also wish I knew because I used to get discouraged really easily.

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