February 03, 2021, 2:05pm EST
With Daisy rising on the Mainstream Top 40 Airplay chart, the London-based artist believes and is banking on songs about pleasure is more than an industry trend.
Sitting on the floor of the Los Angeles home where she’s been riding out the pandemic, her signature blue hair pulled back in a ponytail, Ashnikko is attempting to explain her sound. The 24-year-old, born Ashton Casey, has been called everything from pop to rap to rock to alternative but none seem right to her. The only label she wants to put on her music is “feel-good,” she says, smiling.
Sitting on the floor of the Los Angeles home where she’s been riding out the pandemic, her signature blue hair pulled back in a ponytail, Ashnikko is attempting to explain her sound. The 24-year-old, born Ashton Casey, has been called everything from pop to rap to rock to alternative but none seem right to her. The only label she wants to put on her music is “feel-good,” she says, smiling.
Born in North Carolina, Ashnikko spent much of her childhood on the move as a teenager, she bounced between Estonia and Latvia before eventually moving to London by herself in 2014 at just 18. “I went to public school in a language I didn t speak, and was expected to graduate from that school,” she says, before sardonically adding, “Surprisingly, I didn t graduate high school.”