After she went viral with a post about her parents trolling her, the Nashville musician found herself writing for Charli XCX and
Katy Perry. Now, she’s going solo
Singer-songwriter Sasha Sloan has a confession to make. “I don’t really listen to
music,” she says on the phone from Nashville. “I just listen to standup; I think comedians are the smartest people in the world.” It explains why her early EPs of brutally honest soft-focus pop had wry titles such as Loser and Sad Girl, and why the initial title of her debut album, recorded during the emotional rollercoaster of lockdown, was Who’s Cutting Onions? In the end, the 25-year-old went with the more literal Only Child. “It’s defined me; like my cynicism, being selfish. It also meant having no one to talk to about my parents.”