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LONE SHARK Amy Shark delivers her furry fourth album, Soft Pop .

W here do you go after you’ve worked with every member of your favourite band? Amy Shark’s debut album, 2018’s Love Monster , featured a duet with Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus, Psycho . Her second album, 2021’s Cry Forever , featured a duet with Blink’s Travis Barker, C’mon . And Amy completed her Blink trilogy on 2024’s Sunday Sadness , which included My Only Friend , featuring Tom DeLonge. So, what do you do when all your dreams come true? Well, if you’re Amy Shark, you make a new album – with no co writes and no collaborations. “I just wanted to feel fresh again,” the Gold Coast star says. Amy says Soft Pop is “a completely different sound, topics I

nails done one day when a group of kids came in with Labubus. A lightbulb went off in Amy’s head. “That could be a merch item!” And the furry theme perfectly suited the Soft Pop title. The record

Soft Pop by Amy Shark is out Jul 24 via Sony

Amy Shark

features the break-up anthems The Biggest Dick and Our Last Fight – which

CHART FACT

Amy Shark made her acting debut this year, playing an MMA fighter in Russell Crowe’s Beast . ACTING UP Light Surrounding You , topped the Australian charts in 2006). Amy – who turned 40 in May - says the record was “written solely by me, produced solely by Dann Hume”. “It just felt so fun.” Jeff Jenkins

namechecks Gracie Abrams and Taylor Swift - as well as the deeply personal Child of Divorce , where Amy sings: “’Cause I come from a place of turbulence, I’m a child of divorce, so, of course, there’ll be things I haven’t really processed yet.” Amy made Soft Pop at an old church in Wales with her long-time producer Dann Hume who, in a previous life, had a band with his brothers, Evermore (their biggest hit,

Amy’s first three albums all hit number one.

finally found the words and melodies for... no drums, just the best songs I could write.” She says she wanted to create a “world” with the new record. She was having her

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