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Ashe was almost going to quit. The California-born singer-songwriter began her career singing on demos in Nashville, then providing guest vocals for EDM artists like Louis the Child in L.A. In 2019 she released a divorce anthem called “ Moral of the Story ,” which gathered the kind of forward momentum that signaled a potential breakthrough: a feature on a popular Netflix teen rom-com, a remake featuring a member of One Direction. Then things stalled, as they tended to do in the early 2020s. Two albums released on an indie label failed to boost her profile, and by 2023, burnout hit: She canceled her tour and considered retirement. A self-released album fell short of a comeback; an alliance with Finneas O’Connell produced a lukewarm collab project that aimed for Fleetwood Mac and landed closer to Daisy Jones & The Six .…