A thick skin is necessary for the current Amy Shark era. She’s exploring new waters, both sonically and personally, and it seems she’s ready to plunge into greater depths, writes rollingstoneaus.
A thick skin is necessary for the current Amy Shark era. She’s exploring new waters, both sonically and personally, and it seems she’s ready to plunge into greater depths, writes Poppy Reid.A young woman in black heels and a corporate-grey pencil skirt rushes to her fridge. Pulling out a frozen meal, she looks exasperated as she melts off the crusted ice with a hairdryer.
The waiter at Rick Shores has us seated at what he calls the “rock star table”. With an uninterrupted view of Burleigh Beach, it’s so close you can hear the waves crashing in front of us. Over two beers and the kind of seafood you“I’m not sad anymore,” she says, referring to her first two number one albums. “And even if some songs are sad, I’m okay with it. It’s not going to take me over like some of the other songs did.
The rapidly expanding world of Amy Shark, outside of just music, was initially a challenge for someone who doesn’t court the limelight. Until recently, Amy struggled with the materialimmaterial consequences of fame. From being recognised and idolised to the new waterfront home, and the full team of staff who work for her, she attached guilt to her success.
r of any Australian artist last year when she took the See U Somewhere tour on the road for sixty dateonths and when she wasn’t touring she was in studios dotted across the globe. At the time of writing, she’s rusticated in a cottage with producer Dann Hume at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios in South West England. She doesn’t stop, she’s a global force, and she has no plans to slow down.
Amy heads to the computer to play me a few tracks she’s been working on, but as soon as she logs on, the call-to-arms charge ofHe’s probably one of the main people I text,” she shrugs, referring to one half of the duo, Briggs. “We both have a very dry sense of humour.” “I was like, ‘Oh I’m not doing this! I’m not. Not here, right now. Like dissecting a fucking relationship I was in five hundred years ago,” she grins awkwardly as the memory rushes back. “I can’t… This can’t be happening.”
At this point in March last year, seven months before the single was released, Amy and Kersting had been working on the new era of Amy Shark every weekday for a month. They were averaging four songs every five days, and“Sometimes artists are scared of going in a certain direction,” he says, “because they have a preconceived idea of what their sound needs to be. Whereas Amy just came in and was like, ‘Let’s do whatever the fuck we want to do’.
Amy Shark, photographed on December 6, 2022 at Work Horse Studios in Sydney by Michelle Grace Hunder. Creative: Katie Taylor. Stylist: Jana Bartolo. Hair and Makeup: Sara Tammer. Production: Long Story Short. Photography Assistant: Jade Florence Mulvaney. Styling Assistant: Kirsten Humphreys. Styling Intern: Yasemin Onur.
The chipping black paint on her fingernails glints in the November sunshine and I remember to ask her about the surgery she had.excruciating abdominal pain, which reaches levels of acute intensity around her period, is “unbearable”. Amy may be a woman of definitive presence, but she is hyper aware of the gendered hurdles she must navigate as a woman in music.Dean Lewis and Vance Joy can look the exact same forever, and their music is enough. Women have to keep reinventing and reinventing and reinventing,” she says, irritated. “[…] I just wish I could have my same old brand forever, but you feel boring. You feel like people are bored with you.
Last year Amy skipped Australian music’s night of nights, the ARIA Awards, to sit on her nan’s couch and watch the TV broadcast. She was up for Best Australian Live Act, but with her nan’s carer overseas for a month, Amy stepped in to help for those four weeks. “[…] I wasn’t just born and met Shane,” she clarifies. “We’ve worked really hard to become a very…” she pauses, “you know, what’s the word? Not a confident couple, but we’re not insecure.
The record has a warm blanket moment too. Amy hasn’t laid down the demo for the album track yet so grabs an acoustic guitar and plays a quick concert for one in her studio. “Beautiful Eyes” is a soul-stirring song about inner strength, with lyrics like: nd was previously titled “Alien”. But with Delonge being closely watched by the US government due to his obsession with extraterrestrial life, the track title had to be changed.‘You’re the alien in the room’Amy moves to her desk to play “Only Friend”. It’s about a person she dragged along to an event that’s not their scene. All signs suggest the track is about Shane, but in this moment, Amy would prefer to focus on the guitar riff.
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