You might not know it, but Amy Allen’s songs have been stuck in your head all year. With songwriting credits on tracks like Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso,” “Please Please Please,” and “Taste,” and actually every other 'Short n’ Sweet' track, as well as Tate McRae’s new single “Two Hands,” Olivia Rodrigo’s “scared of my guitar,” and Justin Timberlake’s “Selfish,” just to name a few, Amy has had an undeniably massive year, and she checked it with Audacy's Bru to chat all about.
Recapping how 2024 has been for her, and what it’s been like to write songs so many people have positively responded to, Amy expressed, “It has been insane, but it's been very fun. And I've gotten to travel a lot for work this year, which has been amazing and really inspiring to be in so many different locations and writing there with friends and collaborators that I love. It's just always like a cherry on top to be able to make music that you love and then also have the world react to it in a positive way, and other people love it as well.”
On top of all her success with songwriting, Amy also dropped her solo self-titled debut album this year. Opening up about her own personal sound, Amy noted, “I grew up on a lot of Classic Rock and then also being a child of the 90s, I fell in love with like Flaming Lips and then for songwriters, I've always loved Dolly Parton and John Prine, so it's very singer-songwritery. But it also has some more Rock elements and then it also goes a little bit into experimental like some electronic bits. But I think the storytelling is like… the heart of music for me and what I love to do the most.”
Sharing why now felt like the right time to put out music of her own, Amy said, “I always had been in bands growing up, like ever since I was 9 years old… And then when I started writing for other people like 7 years ago, I really fell in love with the collaboration process and making songs for and with other artists. So my own music kind of went on the back burner as I made this conscious decision to get better at songwriting. And then I think last year at some point I just realized that it makes me a better songwriter for other people to keep writing for myself.”
“I had just accumulated this like body of work of songs that I loved and they felt really poignant to me, and like an artist statement kind of, and I never really felt like that about a body of work of my own before. So I just felt like, you know, why the f*** not, like just go for it.”
“I love these songs,” Amy added, “and I think it's important for me as a creative to not only be giving my love of music away to other artists all the time, but also to make some just for myself. It keeps me grounded and why I do this. So yeah, it was a very cathartic fun process.”
Amy shared that nerves weren’t really present in the choice of putting out her own work, because she took all the pressure off of it. Unlike when she works with other artists that have massive profiles and this expected response to a lot of the songs, when it comes to her own music, that’s not what Amy expects.
Plus, having her co-written tracks become smash hits, heard on the radio and all over the world, is already fulfilling that part of her life. “So I can totally kind of remove any type of response from my own music that I make for myself, because I already have that part being fulfilled by songs I write with other people.” So putting emphasis on how it's received, "nerves didn’t play much into it."
“It felt good to just put out something that I like and be like… it doesn't matter if anybody besides my mom streams this song… So it was a very freeing place to be creating, and it just makes me a better songwriter all around.”
Her five 2025 GRAMMY nominations including Song of the Year for “Please Please Please," Songwriter of the Year, Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album for her work on 'Short n’ Sweet,' plus a nod for Song Wri ...
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