New song is ‘really rooted in that small town run-in kinda feel where all these emotions are being brought back up,’ says Cassie Dasilva<\/p>\n
Orillia\u00a0singer-songwriter Cassie Dasilva has released her first song since 2024.<\/p>\n
Dasilva said her new song, Never Saw Me Naked, draws on the sounds and influences that first inspired her to play guitar. She said she sees the release as a return to her musical roots and is proud to share her recent songwriting with listeners.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s definitely full-circle,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s based around the experience of going to the Canada Day fireworks with my friends. Really any experience of being in a small town and bumping into someone from your past, who you\u2019ve been romantic with, and having to pretend like nothing ever happened because they\u2019re talking to you like nothing ever happened.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s really rooted in that small town run-in kinda feel where all these emotions are being brought back up,” she told OrilliaMatters.<\/p>\n
Dasilva wrote the song a year ago. She said\u00a0it was a “very nostalgic” experience for her, seeing familiar places and revisiting places she hadn\u2019t been in years; she said she tried to lean into that in the music.<\/p>\n
Dasilva said this is the second of many songs she wrote with the Toronto producer-songwriter duo thankyouthankyou.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of the stuff we recorded that day is the stuff that ended up on the final recording. You don\u2019t typically do that, you\u2019ll do a demo and then re-record stuff but we couldn\u2019t get that feeling again,” she said.<\/p>\n
“It just felt so raw and nostalgic. There are some imperfections in the recording that you just couldn\u2019t duplicate, and we couldn\u2019t get that feeling again. So it came about kinda crazy easily, which I think all the best stuff does,” she explained.<\/p>\n
“It just kind of\u00a0flows through you and you\u2019re a bit of a vessel for it. It was a really great experience, working on this. I just\u00a0knew this was the first thing that I wanted people to hear of my new stuff,\u201d Dasilva said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
After a two-year gap between releases, Dasilva said working with thankyouthankyou helped her clarify her musical vision.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s definitely time,\u201d she said. \u201cI had kind of lost hope that I was either not communicating, or my vision wasn\u2019t very clear for what I wanted, and then working with them it all just clicked and I was like, OK this is how it\u2019s supposed to be. We ended up writing a ton of songs together and this was the second of those. There was just this great energy in the room.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dasilva said that although she once imagined leaving Orillia, she has grown to appreciate her hometown.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s such a funny thing. It\u2019s like the things that I always told myself that I couldn\u2019t wait to escape are the things I\u2019ve grown to love, if that makes sense. I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s maturity or perspective or both,” she admitted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I love the community, I mean it\u2019s such a great place and the lakes are so beautiful. I love running on the trails. There\u2019s such a good arts scene here. Really, if I had to live anywhere other than in a big city \u2014 which I am a city girl \u2014 but it\u2019s just nice to be close to family and friends when you are home. Especially if you travel a bunch,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Dasilva said that after living with the song for a year, she is eager for listeners to hear the direction her music has taken. She said this song is a return to a style she explored early in her musical career, but that she never really released.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just really really excited for everyone to hear this new, kind of old, sound,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of a fun re-introduction, I think. It feels really authentic.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dasilva said\u00a0she is currently working on more songs that will come out in the new year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just so excited for a new chapter of music and hopefully it finds the people it needs to find and resonates with people. That\u2019s all I ever wanted, is to feel a little less alone in my feelings by other people being like \u2018I\u2019ve had that happen,\u2019 or \u2018I feel that too.\u2019 It makes you feel a little less crazy,” she explained.<\/p>\n
Dasilva\u2019s music can be found through her website or her Spotify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New song is ‘really rooted in that small town run-in kinda feel where all these emotions are being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,324328,341],"class_list":["post-947652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-live-musiccassie-dasilvaorillia-singernew-release","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}