After 'Austin,' Country's Dasha Is Back With A 'Perfect Storm' Of A Summer Song

Fresh off the success of her country-pop smash, Austin, Dasha is looking to the future of her music career with optimism. Still, the singer-songwriter cant resist a hit of nostalgia, particularly when it comes to love. 

On Friday, Dasha unveiled a music video for her new song, Didnt I . In it, she reconnects with a former boyfriend at a drive-in theater as a pair of her exasperated pals look on. Just how long the newly rekindled flame will last is anyones guess, but for now, theyre content to revel in one anothers company and dance.

In an interview with HuffPost, Dasha described Didnt I as a musical follow-up to Austin, which was an ode to a lover who couldnt commit. 

Im the princess of the backsliding community. Im just so nostalgic, she explained. Theres something about my past that really intrigues me, including men in my past. Its kind of me admitting, Oops! Here I am again. My bad. Nothings wrong with it, its just ... not the best choice for moving-on purposes.

Watch the music video for Didnt I below. 

The songwriting process, Dasha added, was a perfect storm of sorts, too. She and fellow musicians Ben Johnson and Emily Weisband were holed up in a recording studio just outside of Nashville when they learned a tornado warning had been issued.

So we had 45 minutes to write and record a song, she said. 

Didnt I is Dashas first new release after signing with Warner Records in March. The track will be featured on an expanded edition of her second album, What Happens Now? due out later this year. 

The California native has spent her summer riding high on the breakout success of Austin, which was praised by The New York Times as one of the signature country songs of this year. Earlier this month, the song hit No. 19 on Billboards Hot 100 chart , which measures the 100 most popular songs in the U.S.

Thanks to an easy-to-replicate line dance , Austin began taking off on TikTok in January. It gave Dasha a mainstream boost, too, and she went on to perform the song on Jimmy Kimmel Live  and at the CMT Music Awards . Next month, shell kick off her first headlining tour, Dashville, U.S.A., with a trio of European performances before making her way through the U.S. this fall. 

Speaking to HuffPost in March, Dasha said she was grateful to see Austin catching on in a major way, given the overall scarcity of female artists on the country charts. 

Country is such a male-dominated space, but I honestly see that as a lane wide open and being a really exciting opportunity rather than a challenge.