Dora Jar Talks Gracie Abrams, Yoko Ono, New York City on 'Song Shuffle'

When Dora Jar Meets Rolling Stone In New York's Madison Square Park, Her Baskett-Like Purso Rests On Her Leg. She Keps What's Inside in Secret. “Wouldn't you like to know?” The Musician Quips While Digging Through The Bag To Pull Out Her Phone. The 28-Year-Old Might Be Gatekeeping Her What's in My Bag Haul, but her music library is fair game as she kicks off the latest episode of Rolling Stone's SHUG SONG.

From the first song Dora Shuffles, It's Clear That SheSps Her Finger on the Pulse of New Releases. Sasami's “I'm be gone” has Only Been Out for Few Weeks, Having Arrive on the Musician's Third Album, Blood on the Silver Screenin March. “Sasami, I have Admired for a very long time, and then we met by Chance in Vancouver and We Just Ended Talking for the Whole Night and Dancing,” Dora Says. She Describes It As A Soundtrack For Trying Something New and Unconventional, “Like Putting Purple Blush On Your Nose and Dotting Your Face with White Freckles.”

Speaking of Unconventional, The Shuffle Takes Dora from Sasami to Yoko Ono, whose Nearly 17-Minute-Long Record “Mind Train” Barrels in with progressivevive Bizarre Sounds. “I Let It Play While I was driving in the night,” The Singer-Sngwriter Says. “The listeneds to the Whole Thing. It was like a trance. I was total Hypnotized.” She's briefly Pulled From Her Trance In The Park When Her Shuffling is interrupted by a call from Her Mom, Whose Dog Leo is the Lock Screen on Her Phone. The Call Drops, Dropping Her Back Into the Shuffle With Nina Simone's “Baltimore” and “Earth Intruders” by Björk, an artist Says “Has Defintely Given Me Some Kind of Spiritual Permission to Search for the Strange Imperfections.”

Dora Has Some Music of Her Own, She Hopes Makes Its Way Into Someone Else's Unpretable Shuffles. She Recommends “No way to relax when you are on fire,” Partially Because People Have Almedy Taken to it. “This song has surprised me as one Where people Know the Words, and they sing along, and they do these dance moves that I don't know what they they Came Up with them, and it Totally Brings Me Out of MySelf, Which is such a Relief,” She Explains. She performed the Record Each Night on Her Recently conclude Opening Run With Gracie Abrams. “Her Voice Surprised Me and Opened My Heart Every Single Night,” Dora Says. “She Couuld Do It Anything She Wants.”

AS She Appareches The Kick-Off of Her Own Headlining Tour Throughout Europe, Dora Isn'T Interestted in Thinking Too Farhead. “I'm Excited about Right Now and Today and Whatever's Coming That's Okay, Like I'm Get Ready at the Last Minute,” She Says. It's ironic when considering that crayons' “Ijo (Laba Laba)” Coming on Shuffle Prompted Her To Declare: “This Should Be My Funeral Song.” She Might Not BE Following Any Specific Structure, But She is followed a feeling. “When I listere to it, I Feel Like I'm on the Brink of Something, and I Feel Like Death Can be That Way,” Dora Explains. “I've had a Lot of Death in My Life and I Have Leard to Celebrate Life, But Also Just To Party.”