Daya’s on “Such a High” Thanks to First Grammy Nomination

December 7, 2016 Music News Group

Nathan JohnsonAt 18, Daya is the youngest artist this year to be nominated for a Grammy, and she can hardly contain her excitement.

“I’m on such a high right now, this is insane,” she tells Billboard. Her collaboration with The Chainsmokers, “Don’t Let Me Down,” is up for Best Dance Recording. The singer says she was awakened by phone calls and texts with the good news.

“I had just woken up, so I was like, ‘Is this part of my dream? I can’t tell.’ And I was so ecstatic I texted all my friends and literally did a lap around my hotel room. I was completely alone but had the energy of like 30 people,” she tells Billboard.

Two people she didn’t get to celebrate with? Drew and Alex of The Chainsmokers. Though she’d just seen them the previous night, Daya says, “We didn’t talk about the Grammys because I guess they were probably nervous about it and it wasn’t even on my radar. We totally just dodged that subject, but they’re probably on such a high right now. They deserve it.”

Ironically, Daya says her mom didn’t want her to record “Don’t Let Me Down” initially because she disapproved of their hard-partying image.

“She saw one of their music videos and it was a threesome, and she was like ‘I don’t know if I want you doing a song with them,’” she tells Billboard. “For the first couple of weeks I was like, ‘No, this is such a gonna be such a good song, you have to listen to me.’” Mom finally came around, Daya says, and now “loves them.” “They’re like family,” says Daya.