- 2024-08-13
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Amy Shark Releases New Album “Sunday Sadness”
Australian alt-pop singer-songwriter Amy Shark released her third studio album “Sunday Sadness” on August 9, 2024 via Sony Music Australia.
Originally, the album was supposed to be released on August 16, 2024. But she released the album a week earlier than initially planned.
She said, “I love the element of surprise. It'll be a bit of hype for the album, and it's cool. Why not?”
The album is her first body of work in three years since the 2021 album “Cry Forever”.
The album comprises a 11-track, featuring a guest appearance from American rock band blink-182's guitarist Tom DeLonge.
blink-182's other members, Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker joined in her debut album “Love Monster”, and the second studio album “Cry Forever”, respectively.
Produced by Kid Harpoon, Matt Corby, Joel Little, Dann Hume, Jon Hume, Sam DeJong and Aaron Rubin.
The album art work is inspired by a photo of a young Drew Barrymore eating pasta.- Amy Shark said of the album, “I specifically wrote this album on Sundays, constantly daydreaming about the happiest moments and the worst, remembering the best people while still getting over others. I am different on Sundays, I am not sure why, but I bet you are too.”
She continued, “I think about my life so much on Sundays, my family, my friends and probably you. I'm still learning people, I'm still trying to be a better person, 'Sunday Sadness' has every emotion I feel, you'll smile in some songs and feel the love - but you'll also be sad and probably not sleep well this Sunday night.” -
Amy Shark told The Music about album title, “I was shocked by how many people were like, ‘Yeah, the Sunday scaries!’. It's the same with me and my husband. It's like, Sunday rolls around, and both of our families are a little cooked, and everyone's busy with their families. We're just sitting there and, like, our whole life is work. So, everything stops on Sunday. So, you’re like, ‘What do we do?’ I guess we could go for a walk... It's such a weird day, and then that evening feels so gloomy, and I start thinking about my family and things of the past and shit like, ‘Where's my passport? Is it updated? Have we done that?’”
She continued, “You start freaking out about these ridiculous things, and it's like, biding the time for that evening to end. And then Monday feels great. Monday is like, 'We're back on, work's happening, we're busy'—it's all good. But yes, Sunday Sadness, I was really surprised when I announced that people were like, 'Yeah, we get it. That's definitely a weird time.' It was cool to see other people feeling that way as well.”
Amy Shark explained track-by-track for the album via Apple Music.
“Slide Down the Wall”
“I watched the Lizzo documentary [2022's Love, Lizzo] on the way to LA, and she was going through a breakup and said, 'Oh my god, I was so upset, I slid down the wall.' And I was so taken by that. I rewound it and I wrote it in my notes, and I was like, imagine having that [in a positive] way. Because I've been that happy that I've got home and been like, 'Oh, fuck, that was a good night.'”
“It's Nice to Feel This Way Again”
“[Producer] Joel Little has this magical black book of incredible music that I'm so lucky he opens up to me. He obviously liked this one, because he showed it to me first. It made me feel like getting up and starting the day, it was just so bright and fresh. I love surprising people, and I thought this song would do that. The first lyric, 'It's nice to feel this way again, nice to be inside,' just feels warm and comforting. And I really wanted the album to open up with a couple of songs [that feel] like you're being held by someone.”
“Beautiful Eyes”
“The line 'open your beautiful eyes' just flew out of me, and I could have cried. I talk about ex-boyfriends and my mum being really young when she had me, and so many things that are very personal. I think what I was trying to say in that song was, you can have so much shit that happens, but it's a really beautiful world if you can get past that and surround yourself with people and not be scared to do that, and not be scared to know that you deserve that. It's OK to want more. It's OK to search for more and switch it up if you're not happy. We have one life.”
“Gone”
“I almost wanted to put it on Cry Forever, but it wasn't there yet. You're feeling all this hate for this person, and 'why did you do this? Why did you let me down? You're so gone, tell everyone you're dead to me.' Even that phrase I think is really cool and it's gonna be really fun to spit at people live. But then in the bridge it is a bit vulnerable.”
“Can I Shower at Yours”
“It's sexy—meeting someone you want to be around and falling for them really fast.”
“Loving Me Lover”
“[Co-writer and producer] Kid Harpoon knows I play guitar, so we grabbed the acoustic and just started strumming, fiddling around, and found a chord progression. The song came together really quickly. My head was a mess at the time. I was on this crazy trip to LA working with the biggest producers, going to all these wanky parties, but still having my eye on what was happening back home and missing it. That all came out in that song in a really cool, chill way.”
“Two Friends”
“It's my favorite topic of all time, turning a friend into someone more than a friend. I might have had some experience a few times over! It's just such a fun topic to sit back and write about when you've got through it—everything's OK now and you can look back and be like, far out, that was an intense time. But now we've got this really cool pop-punk song out of it. That middle eight took me a while to do, just because the song sounded so fire and different for me. I was like, it needs this bridge that can't be boring. It needs to be different. And it needs to pack a punch.”
“Babe”
“It's basically hand in hand with 'Two Friends,' but a softer approach to it. I love the riff that I wrote. I'm proud of myself, because I'm not a shredder, but I learned from Tom DeLonge, who will say all the time that he's not the best guitarist, but he makes up for it by being creative. I worked with [producer and co-writer] Jon Hume, and we wrestled about whether it should be a ballad, because he had some really nice keys on it. I was like, I really miss the guitar. So we made a little mashup and it's a really nice balance.”
“I'm Sorry”
“I think it's a combination of really unloading: unloading on me from younger years, like being a teenager and wanting to be a musician so bad, and spending all my money, spending all my boyfriend's money. Being so relentless with it and going through some pretty tough times as well, in and out of jobs. Then you finally get signed and it all looks like it's gonna be a fairy tale. Then there's so much dark stuff that happens when you make it—it just gets harder. It's more pressure. When I wrote that song, I was just sitting in my own misery and being like, if I just didn't write all the songs, if I just didn't fucking want to do this... What if another life would have suited me? It's just a song about apologizing to [partner] Shane. I've put this guy through hell, and now he manages me and his life's even more hell!”
“My Only Friend” (feat. Tom DeLonge)
“I just sent Tom the song, it was really easy. And he really liked the verse I had. I gave him the option—I said, 'Hey, feel free if you want to add anything.' Some artists are funny about it, they really want to have their ideas in there. But I was kind of proud of myself, and it kind of made him look like a real pro as well, that he didn't really feel like he needed to do that. He listened to it and was like, 'I really like what you've written, so I'd like to just sing that.' I was like, 'Oh, yeah! That will really suit your voice too.' So he made it really easy.”
“Our Time Together”
“I like leaving an album very emotionally charged. It's just a real walk through my life and things that meant a lot to me. I love that I got to name-check my other favorite band [New Found Glory] on an album where I got to finish working with my other favorite band [blink-182]. This album just all came together so nicely and it all makes sense to me and I really, really love it.” - source : Apple Music
