Welcome to song 43. It's a podcast which I think is
made for you and for me, it's creators who
are doing all the things, being moms,
working and still finding time to create.
So, first off, introduce yourself, because you've had 19 last names
and they're all hard to pronounce. So let's tell our listeners who you
are. Okay, well, my name is Sarah
Devalier, and I previously,
not too long ago, went by Sarah Ada.
That's what Yuri, our mutual friend who connected us, he
knew me as Sarah Ada. And then my maiden name
for anyone who wants to go way back is Sarah
Gronendyke. So I have a storied
past of interesting last.
Yeah. But I chose Sarah de Valier. That's my
mom's maiden name.
It's actually not my legal name just yet. It's my artist name at the moment,
but it will become my legal name.
Yeah. Okay. All right. That's exciting. And that's a very cool last
name. Thank you. The challenge being
getting people to say it right and spell it right, but when they do.
Yeah, that is a wicked cool last name. And maiden
names. I mean, mine was clapped, so I could not get rid of
it fast enough. Pun intended. But it's still
my artist name. So I wanted to talk to you about that when I
was first looking into your music and when Yuri sent me the
links. And then now you've released this new single, which we'll talk about
and this new project under your new name. Right. But I'm like, how do you
change from that? How do you go from having a Spotify following and
a website? And this isn't even like a marriage thing. It's just like you were
like, this is my artist name. So tell us about that. A
little boy. Yeah.
So similar to you. My maiden name
is. I also, when I first got married,
very much was like, yes, I will absolutely take
the name Ada. That is so much better than.
You know. I kind of wish I thought a little bit more about it. I
do think it's, like, a nice sounding last name,
but I don't know, I'm kind of weird. I kind of like something
to not only sound good, but kind of, like, look good on paper, too. And
I never really liked how it looked. I never liked how it looked. And I
never felt like it. Never felt like
me. It always kind of felt just
not like me. So anyway, I got
divorced a few years ago and that's
a whole other story. But long story short,
it was very difficult to make that decision,
actually. I mean, I very much wanted to just go ahead and
make the decision and there was no part of me that wanted to stay as
Sarah Ada. But I did a ton of
research and I knew that basically
when it came to streaming and stuff like that, I'm just going to
have a new profile, pretty much artist
profile, moving things. Yeah. So I did a little bit of
testing. I did rerelease, a single under
my new name to see what would happen. And long story
short, it got released under the new name,
but it's still in Spotify. It's like both. And so
if you had already added it, then that's what you have now,
it's still the old one. Yeah. So it kind
of like split everything. Yeah, it did. And then that's just Spotify. That's
actually like the best version of it. Apple just
won't do it and I think pretty much most other streaming services just won't
do of.
I knew that that was a very strong potential. Everyone had warned
me about that. But I think I talked to a friend of
mine who had went through something similar and she was
like, well, honestly, I don't feel like our audience, actually, she was talking about
herself. But I'm going to say we, because it's me too. Our audiences are not
big enough to care that much.
I get that. Well, just to say, if you're going
to do it, just do it now. It's harder,
I think, when you have a bigger audience and you have to worry more about
splitting the streams or whatever and what impact that might have
downstream. Pun not intended, but that sounded
funny.
So I think that's kind of the approach I took. And to
be honest, the funny thing is, too, there were some things that I had released
under my old name that, it's not that I'm
not proud of it, it's just like, I could definitely bury
that CD. I don't necessarily. That wouldn't
be the worst thing. I had it. I have that. Yeah, I have that.
It's not that I'm not proud of it, but it's definitely like, okay, this is.
And learning how, I mean, I'm in a constant state of learning. It's not like
I'm not learning anymore, but I was definitely like in the beginning stages
of learning how to record and produce and arrange
and all these different things and even songwriting. I think that
my material is so much stronger now that I'm very much okay
to not have some of that stuff be in
my, I guess, discography.
Yeah, I totally get that. That's very relatable.
But I will know the album that I put out right before
all the stuff went down with my divorce and all that, I am
very proud of that album. And that was kind of heartbreaking to me
because I think Yuri helped me.
I keep mentioning Yuri. I don't know if we need to say who Yuri is.
I'll give some. They'll know. Okay.
Yeah. So Yuri helped me out with that album,
and I am very proud of, like, in pretty
much every regard. I think it's a really strong piece of work.
And I have all these physical CDs that have my old name on it. But,
you know, what I've done is I've repackaged the physical CDs, and people
still buy them. I literally just put it into a little.
Yeah. And I wrote a little story and I printed it on a page,
and I was like, this might be confusing. Like, what is my name? Well, let
me explain to you. So I've just tried to have that
be just. It's just a part of my story. And if people really
like my music, if anything, they're like, oh, this is
really cool and interesting. I get this album that has a
different name, and it's sort of like a piece of her past.
So that's kind of how I've wrapped my head around all of.
Yeah. And now I'm just forging. Just. This is what it
is. Yeah, I love that's. And that's something.
So one of my last guests is my drummer, Pete
Wilhoit. And being a dude, he didn't have to change his
name when he got married or whatever. So I'm just
kind of like, this is so entertaining and interesting to me because we
as women, if we do get married or divorced or whatever, we
have to have this conversation with ourselves and with our spouses and be like, what
am I going to do? And I've already established myself as said artist,
and do I want to change it? So I think that's such a cool way
of doing it, though, having new packaging and having this kind of story that you
can tell that's really cool and fun.
And it tells a story that you can keep going with fans and get
more people engaged. But, God, it'd be so scary to me in this
digital age to just change my professional name, especially
with the realm of the streaming services, because,
shoot, I wanted to change the album art for something, and you
can't do that. I'm like, this is.
Well, shit. Somebody was like,
that picture is horrible. I was like, well, someone could have told me that before
I made it the COVID art. But anyway, things like that. Oh,
no. Well, I'll just say one other thing, just in case there isn't
anyone listening who's, like, racking their brain about whether to do something like this or
not. Another perk, because there are actually quite a few
perks, is, again, if you are, like, a lesser known person
such as myself, is that the stuff that
I've released in the past, that for whatever reason, usually
the recording quality is maybe not what I would
consider up to snuff at this point, I can just
rerecord it and it's like, as far as most people
know, it's just a new song. And I kind of think that's
pretty great. And, I mean, there are artists who. There's quite a few artists like
Paul Simon famously, and Ani DeFranco. They'll do the same song on
a whole bunch of albums in different sort of. I've always sort of
toyed with that idea anyway, but now it's. I
like this last album that I had put out under my last name.
Hey, I can rerecord some of this, the strongest material
on it. I could just rerecord it and put it on a new album or
record it as a single and make the recording even better, or
just different. And as far as anybody knows,
or as far as a lot of people know, there are, of course, quite a
few people who do listen to me. It's not like there's nobody, but for a
lot of people, it'll just be a new song. That's kind of
nice. Exactly. Yeah, I just did that last month. I put out a single that
I released in 2008. I just
put out another version of it, and it sounds exactly the same
as the original. It's just that I'm using my actual sineway piano as
opposed to a digital piano, which had always bothered me, like,
the artificial sound of it. And now my producer is
like, well, now I want to add strings and I want to add harmony, so
now we're going to do another version of it. I'm like, shit, I don't care.
There's people who've never heard this song, so it's going to be the first time
they're hearing it for somebody. So it's very liberating
and freeing. I think now that we can just put singles
out. Like, you don't have to do a full pressing. You can just put
a single out every week, every month. Although then that's a whole other can of
worms where you're like, I'm not
mean, that's another mind trip. But tell me
about how you balance, because your song shadow
is just so awesome. And when Yuri told me who it was about, and I
was like, this is such a cool song now that
it was already a great song and it sticks in my head all the time.
But tell us about shadow and about who it's about
and just where it came from. Yeah,
so shadow is about my. He's about to be
twelve years old, which is crazy.
Oh, God, she's going to be. Not even though.
Okay, well, he's like, about to be twelve. Yeah. Preteen years are.
Anyway, he was, I want to say
maybe like six or so or five or
six when I wrote the song. And,
yeah, a lot of my songs, they usually
come from one line that
I'll hear or I'll think of, and I'm like, that's a hook.
So most of my songs kind of stem from that. And he
was following his dad. He's now my ex husband, but his
dad, he was just, like, following him around all the time.
And then his dad said, I can't shake my shadow.
And I was like, oh, my God, that's the line to us. That's like a
hook right there. So that was it. I mean, at
the time, I was listening to a lot of
other. And Professor Longhair and other kind of
quintessential New Orleans jazz pianists
and learning how to play
in that style. Because I hadn't really. I mean, I had done
rag in the. But which is a little similar, actually. Quite
know. It was really just like, oh, let me write a song in this style.
And I did. And it was very different from everything else I was writing at
the time. And it was really the first song I wrote that was
like, blatantly about my kids.
And I performed it at a show thinking,
yeah, no one's going to like this. Because it was so different from everything else.
And in my mind, it was like, I kind of just wrote it. It was
just sort of like a little scene in my life. I think that's kind of
what it was. But people just really dug it. They liked it
better than everything else. So I was like, okay, maybe that's another thing. Maybe I
have something here. Oh, my God. Every time
every time. Yeah. Now I've learned to accept that the stuff that
I care the least about, or that is like, it just comes out
the easiest and sort of like, there's just the least
amount. I don't know, there's just no friction in writing it or
recording it or anything. It's just, here it is. That tends to be the thing
that people like the most. So that was that song, and
then it actually led to the rest of the album. To me being like, you
know what? I'll just write an album about this whole experience of being a
parent. Because, I don't know, maybe there are people who actually want to hear something.
Like this, but they wouldn't have to know that it's about
being a parent. I mean, some of the songs, it's obvious, but that one
isn't. It's like, it could be a vice, it could be a
lover, it could be anybody, where you're just like, just. Give me
some space. I thought it was so great, and that's what I thought it was.
And Yuri's like, yeah, it's about her son. I was like, what? That's so cool.
I like it. Even that. And that's so funny
that it came from that, because I've talked about that a ton on the podcast,
where it's like, most of the time, I think as writers, we write
from personal experience, but sometimes you witness
something else, and then you steal that and you run with it. And I think
that that's been some of my best songs, is when I
kind of escape reality, escape my head for a minute and
just steal from somebody else's, like. Or borrow. Borrow.
So what's your process like? I mean, I hate when people
ask me that, because I'm like, it's different every time. But do you have a
formulaic thing you do? Tell us about how you approach
writing. Well,
I will say it is a little different every time, but
maybe the bigger thing is that it has
changed over the years,
at least in how precious I am.
About that first draft, I would say that has really changed.
Yeah. So, in general, I'll say the way that
I write now, for the most part,
is I try to write
as much as I can, have a complete song
just quickly, as quickly as I can, typically
within a few days, if at all possible. And if it's not really coming
out, if I can't really get something down on the page, then usually
I'll just kind of abandon it and come back to it later.
And then whatever I'm left with is definitely a first
draft. And then it's a lot of
rewriting. And I will
say, usually either the music,
like, the actual chord progression and melody, is what's kind of leading it and
is the center of it. And in that case, my lyrics are usually absolute
garbage or the other way around. Well,
they're garbage, but don't worry, they become beautiful. They become beautiful
over time. Yeah. Or it's the other way around
where I'm really focused on the lyrics. And not that the progression
is garbage, but it's very uninteresting, at least for my
ears. Although usually people like the uninteresting stuff anyway. Of course.
Sorry, people, you're really brilliant. We love
you all. Everybody's brilliant.
A lot of times, if I am really focused on just honing in on the
lyrics and I don't focus too much on what
interesting chord progression I'm going to have, or
if I'm going to have an inversion here or whatever it is,
and then it'll be like,
it could take years. Honestly, it really depends on
how often I'm performing it, if at all, and if
I'm having a chance to show it to people and get feedback,
and how desperately I need a song. Because sometimes it's like a
desperate situation. Oh, I need one more song to fill out this thing that
I'm doing. I mean, it just really depends on the project and the
timeline. So if there is no real timeline,
or I don't necessarily know what I'm going to do with it, it could
be technically years until I've totally finalized.
It, but then totally finalizing it is a
whole other can of worms. Because it's like, what does that even mean? Like, we're
just talking about how you can rerecord stuff, and it's like, is the song ever
really done? I'm like, yes. I don't know. But,
yeah, I totally relate to that. Sometimes songs just fall out, and sometimes
they take a much longer time to reveal
themselves. So. Yeah, I totally get that.
Yeah. Well, I guess finalized for me, what I meant was,
okay, now I'm going to record it. But I do
agree. I think it's a living thing. Even once I recorded
something, I am not the kind of person who's like, this is
it. All right, band. This is how we're doing it. I
really couldn't care less when it comes to performing
in a live setting. I'm very much like. I prefer a more
abstract, amorphous, kind of like, all right, we're just going to see what
happens here. And if we go off the beaten path, awesome. We'll just see where
it takes us. And sometimes that's a different melody or a different chord progression
accidentally or whatever, but, yeah, when it comes to the
recording, it's definitely like, all right, this is it. And sometimes
it's in that moment while I'm recording this word or
this note. This just doesn't work.
And so you have to like, yeah. So it really can come down to the
last change. Yeah, but I get that when
you're recording it, it is in whatever form it's going to be in that final
version of a form. That makes sense.
Yeah. It's interesting, too, when you start
writing, and I don't know about for you, when I started
writing millions of years ago, I would write a song and be like,
it's done. And then record it, whatever,
and not think that I could revisit it. And that's something
I've gleaned in my almost 45 years of
life, is that it's never finished. Like, you can do whatever you
want with it. It's also a pain. Once you
do finish something, opening it back up
is like, I don't know. I'm speaking for me. I can't speak
for you, but it's an interesting thing.
It's like the opposite for me. But the reason is
because I am such a
perfectionist to a very unhealthy
degree. I'm in therapy, believe me.
Actually, this is part of my why I need to be like, all right,
I'm just working on this for a couple of days. And I don't mean a
couple of days straight. I mean, like, you know, an hour here, an hour there.
Because the less I feel like this has to be
done, the more free I feel. That has been
a big challenge for me in the past, is being able
to put the pen down or just getting really caught
up in my head about, how do these lyrics make sense?
Is this chord progression interesting enough or whatever?
So when I kind of let that go and just say, oh, no, I can
revisit this, and that's exactly what I'm going to do. It actually
really just takes this
burden off of my shoulders of feeling like it must
be perfect, because it's like, okay, no, we'll try to get it
perfect, but we'll do that later. Let's just have it be done for now, and
then we'll come back to you later. Yeah. And that's liberating,
too, to just get through something and be like, I created this.
Yeah, I love that. That's cool.
You're trying to become a less
perfectionist. Perfectionist, I guess, or less trying perfectionist.
That's not an easy task. That's, like, part of your DNA.
Oh, yeah. It's an
ongoing battle, mental battle. But
I think a lot of people in general, but a lot of artists kind
of struggle with, um, and
I try to remember, like, I don't know who told me this. It was probably
my, like, she's really into art. Like, Claude Monet,
apparently, like, his water lilies. He'd, like, keep redoing it and redoing it and
redoing it. People were just like, someone was like, stop. It's good enough. Just
stop. Yeah. And so
sometimes I have to kind of just tell myself that you might be at the
point where you're ruining it. Just stop
it. That's a very interesting. Yeah, we've all been
there, where you push it just that little bit too far and you're
like, oh, God. Yeah. I think
there's a lot of similarities that can be drawn between writers
and artists and how we create. We just want to
make sure that our vision is being heard or seen
or received in a way that's going to feel representative of us,
but everybody's going to take it differently, and everyone's going to see it differently.
So, yeah, it's ever evolving. That's really
cool. So speaking of ever evolving, so you have this
new project. New old project or songs that are
coming out and the new names. So tell us about that and
how that came to be. Yeah,
so, yeah, I'm going to be releasing an album called
the Healing, and that is coming out, I want to
say, early June 2024, crossing my
fingers. I'm actually still finalizing the mix right now, so that's why I'm like,
I hope so. That's well ahead of the curve. Oh, wow.
June. Oh, God. I told you I'm a perfectionist,
and perfectionists need a lot of time. We need a lot of time.
Yeah. This is going to be my first
full album under my new name. And,
yeah, it's weird.
The songs span from me having written them in, I
want to say, 2010, even
to having written them less than a year ago.
But I really struggled with what to
do next. So, long story short, I mean, as I already said,
I got divorced. This happened during the COVID lockdown.
During the COVID Yes. Yeah, I was one of those.
There's a lot of us. There's a lot of us out there who.
The relationship kind of fell apart during. That
time, a lot of together time. Yeah, I will say it was going
to happen no matter what. I think it just sped things up.
Yeah. And it was
very challenging on a lot of different levels. And I think
the hardest thing for me really was like, I don't know how I can keep
doing music, or at least I don't know how I can keep doing my
music. I never really stopped doing music. I would still
perform or play with other people, record for other
people. I write for video games and stuff like
that. I still did that kind of work. But
doing my own songs and putting out my own songs, it
was too painful and too difficult. I think
that sense of this deep sense of rejection,
I'm like, I don't want that to be in this bigger
way of putting out my music and feeling like it's going to be
rejected. Not to get too deep there,
but, yeah. So I had tossed around
a lot of different ideas about, okay, how can I kind
of. And I tried to get started a bunch of times. A bunch of times
I would try to get started. And I did
actually put out one single kind of, about
family and my mom. I'm actually really proud of it,
but I didn't promote it almost at all because I'm like, I don't
want anyone to say, I don't want to think in my head. People don't like
it. I couldn't deal with it, so I put it out, but I did not.
I had a little bit of radio. I got a little bit of radio
promotion. I had a PR radio person who did a little bit with it. But
as far as to my own audience, I
barely said anything about it. And then
I kind of kept toying around with, like, I want to record. I want to
do something. So I did get together with some friends and we
recorded a few songs. And I was like,
okay, well, I'll do something with these songs eventually. And like
a year goes by and I'm like, all right, I should probably do that again.
So I recorded a few more songs, and I never really thought
they'd all go together, actually, in my head, I was like, oh, these songs are
all so different. I'm just going to try it out. I'm just going to record.
I might never release any of it. But then I kind of realized there was
actually a theme to everything which was
dealing with loss and grief and having
to heal. And I realized that regardless of what
the song was actually about, that's how I could really relate
to it personally was, it felt cathartic. For me to sing,
I was choosing songs that were cathartic to me. That made me
feel like, I guess, kind of like
everything's going to be okay. Things kind of suck right now, but everything's going to
be okay. Okay. Yes. It was very self soothing. Yeah.
That was the through line for all these songs, was that they were very self
soothing. I kind of was like, I
finally had a plan. All right, I've got, like, ten songs here. Eventually, I had
ten songs, and I'm like, these do go together, actually. And I took a lot
of time figuring out the order and all of that.
It's been years in the making, which is very long
for me, but
I feel like I'm finally ready. I think that from the very beginning, I was
trying to push myself to get it done and do something.
And it's really not until, honestly, now that I'm like,
okay. I feel like I'm more,
I guess, healed or more capable of
putting myself out there. Because every time. I'm sure you've experienced this,
or you experience it all the time, I don't know. But that feeling of
vulnerability really deep, deep down inside where you're
like, honestly, I might get crushed.
That's being really vulnerable. Every time we go on
stage, every time we put a song out, every time we shoot
tweet anything, it's like, tweet. I don't tweet anyway.
But you know what I mean? Like, you post stuff and it's just like,
I'm putting it out there, and I don't know how
old you are. I didn't delve that deep into your. I'm
36. Okay. All right. So
for myself, personally, I can say that once I hit 40,
all of, sorry to curse, but it's my podcast. So all the
fucks went out the window. Like, I just started saying, you
know what? I'm here for my family. I'm here for me.
And whatever I put out there
in the grand scheme of things, I want it to make a difference,
but I'm not going to be so precious about it
because I found that that was holding me back from putting stuff out
there. Now I'm just kind of like, if
they like it, they like it, if not. And then I started the podcast
because I was like, what am I waiting for? There's just all these things
that have kind of just come to be naturally as I've just gotten a
little bit more comfortable in going with it and
not worrying so much. But it took a minute. It
took a long minute. I appreciate that, because I feel
like I'm still working on
that.
So I'm engaged now, I told my fiance. Plot twist.
Yay. Yes. I'm
not taking his last name. So there you go. We're not sticking with the
artist name. Again. In
case anyone was curious. I was. Okay.
Yeah. So I told him not too long ago, I was like, I
really hope that by the time I'm 40, I don't give a shit anymore
about what anybody thinks about me, because it's like I have that recognition
there that I don't want to give a shit. But I still do. I know
I still do. I don't think I do quite as much as it's, like, gradually
dissipating, but it's still there. I still
care, but I think that I'm
at least at the point where I recognize it, but I
can sort of block it out and be like,
okay, but what other people think is not as important
as what I feel deeply, like, I need to do. I need to do
this right.
But it's hard, and I can't wait till I'm 40, if that's the
timeline I'm trying to hit. I don't know. I mean, I hit 40
during the pandemic. I
guess I turned 41 in 2020.
And
to make you feel better, I've been working on an album since the pandemic,
like, songs that came out of it or songs that happened during it. And
my producer is even more of a perfectionist than anybody
I've ever met. I don't know. So he's keeping things till
they're absolutely ready in his mind. So it's taking four years,
but again, I'm like, I'll put out singles here and there,
and I'll do the podcast, and I'll find other ways to just feed
the creative monster. Otherwise, we take it out on
our. I don't know about for you, but take it out on our poor people
when we don't get to exercise that
muscle. Yeah, I totally
agree, by the way, I've listened to your stuff, and I love it. I
think it's really good. So I'm glad to hear you're putting out an
album. I didn't know that. I thought it was just going to be a series
of singles, but I'm an album. It could be. It could be.
I'm the same way of work. I like to put it out there and
say, this was this time period in life, and I'm just kind of like, may
never happen. Well, what you're putting out sounds
great. And I really enjoy your podcast because I listened a little
bit before joining. But, yeah, I get what you're saying,
because that's something that I've realized is a lot
of times I feel this sort of. I don't even know
really what to, um. It's kind of
like, you have a soda pop bottle. I'm
not even from the Midwest. I don't know why I'm calling it soda pop. Soda
bottle. And you shake
it and it's like,
you have to let it out. You just have to. Otherwise you just feel
this pent up energy. And I
think a lot of times I kind of forget that because I'm always doing
creative things pretty much all the time, one way
or another, whether it's through music or other means. But the
actual sharing and releasing and putting it out there, I think
that's very challenging on a number of different levels, mentally, but even just the
actual. Logistics, logistics of it. Damn it.
So exhausting all the different. Oh, my
God. The preset and then the getting it
on all the platforms and making all the thumbnails and all this. Oh,
my God. Oh, and should I make a lyric video?
Yes, we should. We should always make a lyric video or
a video in general, should we? No, but, Laura, I've been telling myself
I don't need to, and I can take one thing off my
mind. You can? Absolutely. Well, you
can, because I don't think we've really touched on this yet. But
I know you talk a lot about this, being a mom,
there's only so many things you can do, at least when
your kids are. I don't know how old all your children are, but
mine are. They're about to be eight and twelve, so they're
still young enough where they need me to be.
I have to still make sure that my son is taking
a. Yes, mine are nine and
13, or. Almost 13, very similar.
They're at the point now where we can leave them home alone for a bit.
And it's like, no one's going to burn the house down or kill each other.
But yeah, they need us. So I totally get that.
And there's a lot with the video is like, did people
really need to see this is what I'm doing? Should
I hire someone to do what does this song really want to
say? Because I tried for my single pretend that I did, I
released in the spring, and my producer was
like, this is so awful. Do not show this to anyone. I was like, oh,
that's kind of cool. Oh, now I really want to see
it? Yeah. I think I was trying to be a little too artsy because it
was like what I pictured the song when I wrote it in my head. And,
yeah, that vision didn't carry. But that's why we have people who
are directors that we should hire. I am not that, but
lyric video. Well, now I have a great idea for you. If you
still have this for everybody listening,
you should put it behind some kind of a wall where people have
to sign up for your mailing list or whatever. The only way they
can see this terrible video. People love seeing terrible things.
They do. Yeah, it's a great idea. I think I should do that. I should
make some really crappy videos and be like, the only way you can see this
terrible video is if. You subscribe to my Patreon channel.
Yes, something. Love it. Yeah, that's a good idea. Well, I
did say I was going to start a Twitch channel of me playing video games
horribly because I suck at video games. And so, sure
is like, we are involved in the gaming market. We make microphones that gamers
use. And yeah, I went to this event called Twitchcon. I was like,
there are people who literally make a living playing video games. I can't
even figure out how to get into the video games.
Who knows? That could be an untapped channel of me. Oh, I think so.
I think it'd be hilarious. I think it'd be hilarious. It would
be. No, my child, my son's really
into Minecraft, and he started, with my help, he
started a little YouTube channel where he shows people how to do,
I don't know, Minecraft stuff. That's about as much as I can explain about it,
Minecraft. But I was like, you know what? You
should have a video where you're trying to explain to me, your mom,
how to do these things, because it'd be hilarious. And he's like, I don't
know, honestly, someone's going to take that idea
and run with it. I think it's. Or we should have two moms trying to
explain Minecraft to each other. Like the blind
leading the blind. Exactly. Okay. Whoever's stealing this
idea, we've copywritten it. It's official. Yeah, I love
that. All right, so the album will be coming at some point in the early
summer, we shall say, and this is very exciting.
So how do people find you?
Well, oh, I should also add, before I forget, that the first single is going
to be released March 4. I'd be remiss to not say that. Yeah.
So I'm going to release a few singles. The first one is March 4. It's
the title track. But yeah. So
my website is probably the best way for all the things.
The easiest way is you type in
sdvmusic.com and then that's
great. I was like, oh, crap, girl. If you put your whole. I know. Website,
we are screwed. Okay. All right. Sdvmusic. Well,
it is. Yeah. So it is my whole name, but what happens is it just
redirects. So, yeah, sdvmusic.com, it'll take you then to
sarahdavlier.com. So you don't need to remember or know how to spell
that name because. It'S got Angu or whatever. I
don't sant Franche thing. And I was like,
I'm never going to be able to say this. That's brilliant. And
that's a smart tip for anybody who is making content or being a creator. If
you have a name that's tricky or if you have a brand that's a little
tricky, just shorten it for the people or do a redirect.
So own both of the domains
and then, yeah, redirect. That's a fun tip. Definitely. Yeah,
exactly. Nice. All right, well, this has been so
cool to have you on the show because when Yuri pointed me in your
direction, I was like, yes, she is. My people, we need to have this convo.
So I appreciate you taking time out of your crazy day so
that we could sit down and do this. And it took us a minute to
get here, but I'm glad that we did. And we'll look out for the new
single, which that's going to be here in three weeks. This is very
exciting. Yeah. Yes,
it is very exciting. If you're watching the video, you'll see her
face kind of go a little white when she's like, oh, my God, it's less
than. Well, it's a little scary, but it is
very exciting. It's kind of just like,
in conclusion of what I've said before, it's different
if anyone's heard my other stuff. It's like totally a
departure from what I've put out in
the past. It's very different from. Very, very different. It's
great. It's scary, but it's exciting. Yeah. Just jumping
into the deep end. So that's the only way to fly.
Well, thank you, Sarah, for joining me. And thank you, everyone, for listening.
And check out her music,
sdvmusic.com and look
for the new single. Thanks, everybody. Honey,
if you please just call me
baby. I'll be a fancy I
need your love it I can
guarantee I'll be what you need
just call me
close.