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Hollywood's Alt Pop Rock Secret Revealed - Dela Kay | Nashville Rocks Ep 5

·22 min

Nashville Rocks opens with Jason introducing Della K as an alt-pop-rock artist who is coming off a successful EP and has thousands and thousands of streams on Spotify. He points listeners to NashvilleRocks.com and teases the links and music tied to the show. Della K joins from a windy outdoor setup, and the conversation starts with the reality of trying to do an interview while the weather keeps cutting in. She says she grew up in Franklin, Tennessee, and now lives in North Hollywood, California. That back-and-forth between Tennessee and the West Coast is part of the picture she gives of her life right now. Jason asks about the release she has just put out. Della says the song felt out of the box and different from what she had written before. She explains that she and her collaborators went into the writing session with the idea that it might be for another artist, so the process felt fun and unconstrained. She mentions having a couple of artists in mind while they were writing, in a gritty-but-still-poppy lane. By the end of the session, she liked the song enough to want to keep it. The team did pitch it out, and it got great feedback. Even so, she decided it should come out under her own name. The music video folds her co-writers into the scene. Ryan plays drums in the video and Kaz Park appears as her guitarist. Jason reacts to the setting, which is a car shop in North Hollywood. Della describes the shoot as a place with plenty of oil, transmission fluid, and general garage history built into it. The location gives the video a rough, fun texture that matches the track. Jason asks how the pieces come together when she is making something independently. Della says she usually starts with a vibe in mind when she writes. She also points to a Halsey video that gave her a visual reference point. The conversation keeps circling back to how a song can suggest its own world before the video is even made. Jason closes by thanking her for being on the show, reminding listeners to check the site for show notes and links, and sending out a call to guitarists and drummers who might want to join the band. The episode ends with a clear sense that Della K is building toward bigger things while keeping the process open and hands-on.

As heard by us

A windy, on-location chat that captures an artist shaping a new release and building a band.

Della K brings a scrappy, live-wire feel to Nashville Rocks while talking through a newly released alt-pop-rock cut, the loose way it came together, and the move between Franklin, Tennessee, and North Hollywood, California.

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Press play if you want a quick look at an alt-pop rock artist building momentum.

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