Amy Shark – one of Australia’s premier pop successes and an 8 x ARIA award winner – has today released ‘Two Friends’, the latest single lifted from her upcoming third studio album, Sunday Sadness.
Written by Shark, ‘Two Friends’ has quickly become a fan-favourite online, with the bridge becoming an instant earworm – “Sarah told Becky, and Becky told Tegan, and Tegan told Sophie, and Sophie’s friends with Krystal, and Krystal told Sally, and Sally loves Daniel, and Daniel told Katie, now Katie fucking hates me”.
In Amy’s own words she says “Two Friends is about a young girl aggressively removing someone from the well known “Friend Zone” and placing them deep in her heart and mind where they inevitably take control of her entire body, both end up moving in unison like a funeral march for the friends they used to be.”
Sunday Sadness marks the first album from Shark in three years, following the release of ARIA #1 albums Cry Forever in 2021 and Love Monster in 2018. Gold-accredited release ‘Can I Shower At Yours’ and recent singles ‘Beautiful Eyes’ and ‘Loving Me Lover’ will all feature on Sunday Sadness.
Speaking on the upcoming release, Amy shares “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.”
Shark continues “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”.
Sunday Sadness is an 11 track masterpiece by Shark, featuring the creative contributions of a dream line of up producers including Kid Harpoon, Joel Little, Dann Hume, Jon Hume, Sam De Jong, Matt Corby and Aaron Rubin.
Last month, Shark announced The Sadness Tour – a headline tour of Australia and New Zealand in October and November, following the August 16 release of Sunday Sadness.
The Sadness Tour will be Amy Shark’s first headline tour since her massive 60-date run across Regional Australia in 2022, and her first Australian capital city headline shows since 2021’s Cry Forever Tour. Shark will begin The Sadness Tour in Auckland on Saturday 12 October before heading to Melbourne, Hobart, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide, then wrapping up in Perth on November 2.
SUNDAY SADNESS
- Slide Down The Wall
- It’s Nice To Feel This Way Again
- Beautiful Eyes
- Gone
- Can I Shower At Yours
- Loving Me Lover
- Two Friends
- Babe
- I’m Sorry
- My Only Friend
- Our Time Together
ABOUT AMY SHARK
After bursting on to the global music scene in 2016, Amy Shark’s 7x Platinum single ‘Adore’ put her on the map as one of Australia’s most formidable songwriters and saw her perform the hit single on The Late Late Show With James Corden and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
‘Adore’ kickstarted the first of many worldwide tours for Shark, who would later go onto win an ARIA Award for her touring efforts in Australia. ‘Adore’ was followed by APRA award winning (Song Of The Year) 7x Platinum and number one Australian airplay chart hit, ‘I Said Hi’ and the 2019 4x Platinum single ‘Mess Her Up’. Shark’s debut/breakthrough #1 ARIA album and Platinum-certified LOVE MONSTER was recognised in 2018 with four ARIA awards (Album of the Year, Best Female Artist, Best Pop Release, Best Producer [Dann Hume]) and was nominated for another five. LOVE MONSTER went on to become the highest selling album by an Australian artist for 2018. 2020 saw Amy release her ARIA award winning, 2x Platinum accredited single, ‘Everybody Rise’, which spent 12 weeks in the top 10 Australian airplay chart. Amy’s latest album, Gold-certified CRY FOREVER was her second #1 ARIA debut holding the top spot for two weeks consecutively. Shark teamed up with blink 182’s Travis Barker on Gold accredited single ‘C’MON’ and global superstar Ed Sheeran to co-write 2x platinum single ‘Love Song’s Ain’t For Us’ featuring Grammy award winning artist Keith Urban. In 2023, she released now Gold-accredited single ‘Can I Shower At Yours’, grace the cover of Rolling Stone Australia, support Coldplay for their stadium shows in Perth and make her debut as a judge on Australia Idol – for which she picked up her first Logie, winning the Graham Kennedy Award for Most Popular New Talent. This win inducted Amy into the illustrious club of Australians who have taken home both an ARIA Award and Logie Award. 2024 saw Amy return to her judging role for a hugely successful second season of Australian Idol.