alessia's with us now. hi, alessia. alessia: hi, how are you? shawn: doing very well. very, very happy to get to talk to you today. not only am i here at channel 13, but i'm also at mix 94.1, and we were listening to what songs we should add and your song came across and it's one of those, you hear it once, you know it's gonna be a hit, you got to play it. congratulations on all the success! alessia: thank you so much. thank you, and i appreciate you playing it. that's awesome. shawn: so your song here, it's obviously been a global hit. when you're putting your first foot out there, like, okay, i hope everybody likes me. here's my first single from my first album. did you think it was gonna have a feeling? alessia: i mean, i always had a gut feeling about it and i knew it was special. i didn't know where it was gonna fit or what was gonna happen with it, but of course you can never really prepare yourself for how big a song is gonna get or how quickly it's gonna explode, and it really just happened so fast and i didn't expect it. it just kind of hit me, like it blindsi