Most impressive about Dorsey is that her song “Best Worst Day Ever” was featured in the film, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, where she sings with her sister, Kerris Dorsey. “That was really cool. My sister is in the movie and plays Emily, who is Steve Carell’s daughter in it. It went from being something that we wrote in our respective bedrooms to something that was in the credits of the movie. It was so cool,” she said.
Regarding her new song “Cliché,” she said, “It has more of a bite to it than ‘Best Worst Day Ever.’ It is a little bit angrier and I wanted to convey the confusion and frustration that a person feels when their heart is aching,” she said. “It manifested itself visually, and I liked the idea of me being alone in a room and going slowly crazy, because that is what it felt like.”
Throughout her career, she has been awarded the “Malibu Music Award” and the “USA Songwriter Competition Grand Prize,” the latter of which she won with her sister for “Best Worst Day Ever.” “That was crazy to win that,” she said.
Dorsey shared that her musical influences are quite diverse ranging from Joni Mitchell to The Beatles, as well as 70s New York punk. “I try to listen to everything that I can, and I try to find inspiration in it,” she said.
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