"Thoughts" by Sasha Alex Sloan, Monday, May 2, 2022
Alexandra Atourovna Yatchenko, better known to her 9.6 million monthly Spotify listeners by her stage name Sasha Alex Sloan , bears the introvert soul often missing these days in pop music. The singer-songwriter grew up religious to Russian/Ukrainian immigrant parents and attended a semester at Berklee College of Music before dropping out to write songs for other artists. Before releasing her debut EP Sad Girl in 2018, the singer-songwriter wrote songs for Charli XCX , Kygo , and Lecrae , among others. She continues to write music for herself and for other artists working in Nashville. SOMETIMES I CAN'T CONTROL MY THOUGHTS. " Thoughts " is the opening track on Sasha Alex Sloan's second EP, Self Portrait . Listening to Sloan is an intimate experience. Her poignant writing is specific enough to make listeners feel like they know her personally. But the writing is also vague enough for listeners to appropriate her lyrics to their own lives. For example, the second