INTERVIEW: Amy Shark on new single 'The Biggest Dick' and fourth album 'soft pop': "I felt like I needed a challenge and I needed a fresh sound. Every old sound that I had has been thrown in the bin."
Interview: Paul Mitchell
Published: 19 March 2026
Superstar Amy Shark has released her first new music in almost two years with the single ‘The Biggest Dick’ and announced her fourth album soft pop will be released on 31 July.
‘The Biggest Dick’ sees Shark return to her roots with an acoustic guitar sound, and despite the aggressive title, is a gorgeous, gentle song shot through with melancholy with a vocal from Shark that is soft and tender in its delivery.
Lyrically the song is an exploration of a relationship breakdown and slowly feeling your way back to normality. Like everything Shark does, there is an intimate relatability in her lyrics - no drama, bitterness or tantrums, just a heartfelt expression of her feelings. ‘You said you felt wasted / Yeah well I felt used.”
“’The Biggest Dick’ is about celebrating all the little wins you have when you’re feeling low,” Shark said on the song’s release. “Things like coffees and blue skies. It’s the ultimate breakup song. A little bit sad a little bit vulnerable, a little bit uplifting but mainly…a big F U! You big dick.”
‘The Biggest Dick’ will feature on Shark’s fourth studio album soft pop which is due for release on 31 July. For the first time since her earliest days in music, all 11 songs on the album were written entirely by Shark. Holed up in her apartment for a month, Shark created all the songs solo before flying to Wales to record the album in the converted church studio of her long time producer Dann Hume.
Like ‘The Biggest Dick’, the album follows a guitar driven, acoustic soundscape, with no drums anywhere, as Shark sought to use instrumentation and vocal hooks to punctuate the songs.
“I’m so proud of soft pop and so excited to share this world with my fans,” Shark says. “We created something that feels incredibly special on this album. There’s truly something here for everyone, and the process of bringing it to life has been challenging, full of joy and honestly life changing. Strap in as we reveal the record step by step. I hope you find something beautiful, relatable and deeply human in every drop of soft pop.”
Alongside the release of her new music, Shark continues to break new creative ground in 2026 with her debut acting role in a feature film, BEAST. Starring alongside Russell Crowe, Daniel MacPherson and Luke Hemsworth, the film is due in Australian cinemas on 23 April.
One of Australia’s most dynamic, charismatic and beloved artists, 2026 marks ten years since Shark broke through with a bang with the massive hit single ‘Adore’. A decade on, soft pop sees her both return to her sonic roots whilst at the same time exploring a new sound that is some of the most beautiful and engaging music she has released to date. We recently sat down with Shark to get all the details on this next chapter in her musical career.
Hey Amy! Great to talk with you today. I want to jump right into the new single ‘The Biggest Dick’. It is such a fantastic song and what I love about it is the title is quite aggressive, but the song is really quite beautiful, there’s this melancholy and gentleness to it. It's a fantastic juxtaposition between the two. What about the inspiration for this song?
Thank you. This was one of the first songs [for the album] where I stumbled across some chords that I liked. To really give you a proper idea of everything, I was in my apartment and I had a deadline of one month because I was supposed to leave in a month's time to go record the album. I've never had that experience before where I'm writing an album and I only have a month to do it in, but as gruesome and as hard as it was, it was the best experience of my life, because I got some really urgent and fun and different sounding songs. I don't think I would have written like this if I'd had more time.
I also stumbled across a different tuning that set me on fire. As an artist, it's my fourth album and it’s like I keep going back to the same riffs and the same chords, it's just boring to me. So when I got this new tuning, I started the chords for ‘The Biggest Dick’. I hadn't written in a long time and I was figuring out just how to write again, it was the first time I had no songs in the bank. Even the ones I had, I wanted to leave them in the past, I wanted all new shit. The lyrics are literally what I was thinking about, starting as a brand new songwriter almost
Essentially it's a big breakup anthem, but all my songs have little hidden agendas and little secrets behind them, I'll often take bits and pieces from different things and bring them together, so they sound like one big song, but realistically, it's a lot of different things that have been happening in my life.
I ended up having so much fun with this chorus, because, who hasn't dated a dick before? A dick can be anyone, it can be male or female, I've been a dick myself. Like, you said it sounds so controversial and aggressive, but it’s conversational and it just was fun. It was a lot of fun and a pleasure to write.
Another thing I really love about the song, and actually it's in all of your work, is there's a real relatability and humanity in the lyrics. You never this over dramatic, telenovela type drama in your lyrics., everyone can relate to what they are. You sing ‘I'm tired, I'm angry and I'm in love’ and ‘crying at the steering wheel’ and they are words and emotions, that we can all recognise. I'm curious to know, where do you think that honesty comes from? You never over embellish, but you really get to the core of what everyone's feeling.
I don't know, I've always made a point to not really overthink much. It's just a subconscious thing. I'm really aware of the balance, and by now, I know what makes a good song and that makes me aware of when I'm going too dramatic, or if I'm going too far into a weird, wacky world. I like to keep it real. The songs I've listened to and connect with the most are the simple things you don't expect to hear in a song and in a melody. And I think that's the trick to songwriting and connecting, it’s literally everyday things. It's like when we go watch comedy, the things that make us laugh the most are the real life shit. It's those little things that we forget to talk about in our friend groups. Throughout this whole record, I was just trying to find those moments that hit us and it happens, and it's real.
I want to talk about the video for ‘The Biggest Dick’ which is great. Did you film that on a Go Pro or something?
That was the idea, the idea was to make it look completely lo-fi, like I'd done it myself, but I actually found these two beautiful Swedish men that helped me put that together. I had already been filming a lot of content on my bike to promote this album and this song, and I wanted to do it in a way that wouldn’t derail my whole life. I'm always on my bike, so I found this device that puts my camera on it. So after I'd done that for so long and had all that content, it made sense to just do that idea, but elevate it a little bit. Hence the bikini and my dignity just left on the floor in Surfers Paradise! Which is fine, I think I left it there years ago!
it's also just it's my fourth album and I'm so proud of this next era that I'm trying to be as creative as I can, to get eyes on it, because it's so hard these days to get people interested in your music. There's so much music out there, so I'm playing my big cards.
I have to admit I had a bit of anxiety watching you because I was afraid you must have crashed the bike multiple times while trying to perform on the bike!
I'm a good rider. I'm confident on the bike!
So your fourth album, soft pop is out in July, and what stands out on ‘The Biggest Dick’, and will carry on through the album, is the production is really dialled back. It gives the feel of full sound, but if you break it down, it's your voice and a guitar, and there's no drums on the album at all. Can you talk me through why you decided on that creative angle for soft pop?
I left my apartment with 11 songs that I was really excited about, and knew they were special. It's always a hit or a miss in the studio, whether they're going to come to life the way you want them to or not. I had a really good discussion with my manager about what is going to be the thing that makes people interested to listen again. I didn't feel I could put another Amy Shark sounding album out. The way the world is, everyone is so busy, and there's so much music out there, I felt if I just did another Amy Shark sound, it would just be like, ‘oh yeah, that's Amy, we know it.’ So it didn't feel right. I felt like I needed a challenge and I needed a fresh sound. Every old sound that I had, every snare sound has been thrown in the bin and here are our new guidelines, and we need to really try and restrain ourselves. I want people to hear these songs and question whether it's me or not.
These songs suit this production, I did have that in mind, so I was just praying that Dann and I could really lock in on it, And everything worked, I can't explain how much everything worked on this album. It was really meant to be. I've never written an album by myself on the floor of my apartment before, and I've never gone to one place to record the whole thing, so I was really nervous, but I was also so excited, because when I have strong demos, I know I'm not going to leave that studio until they're sounding the way they need to.
Did you find there was a particular theme through into the when you were writing for the album?
Well, it's a pretty hot sounding album, some of the songs go there! I don't know if it's because I was reading a lot of erotic stuff! I would say what have I got to write about, it's not like I'm in my 20s anymore, who's going to listen? Who's going to care about what I write about? And the best thing my partner said was what don't you have to write about? And it really inspired me, because I realised I've got more to write about than most younger female artists, because I've felt everything, I've said everything, I've done everything. I've been on the highest highs and lowest lows. When I remembered that, I could really zone in on things and it was really exciting.
Stepping away from music for a minute, you will soon be in cinemas, starring in the movie BEAST with Russell Crowe, which is amazing. How was that experience?
It was amazing. I mean, it was terrifying, but it was something that I've always wanted to do. I love acting, that was my first love. I wanted to be an actress before I could play guitar, and I'm just lucky that I made friends with Russell Crowe, he started coming to some some of my shows, and one day he just sent me a script, and he said, ‘I can't promise anything, but If you're interested, I can set up an an audition, but the rest is up to you.’ And I loved it. It sounded so cool. I grew up watching a lot of fight movies. I love The Karate Kid. I love Bloodsport, I love Jean Claude Van Damme, so I was really into the character, I play an ex-MMA fighter, and Russell Crowe is my dad. I got to be covered in tats and braids and just look really hardcore.
But it was scary, because when they say action, and there's heaps of cameras and lights and people, and Russell Crowe is standing in the corner, you're like…it's now or never. But the movie is just really incredible, I'm so proud to be a part of it. It's the coolest movie, from the fight scenes to the story and the sound of it, it's really cool.
There's been a big viral moment this year around 2016, and 2016 was when he released ‘Adore’ and your career went through the roof. How do you feel looking back at those 10 years and outside the massive success what's changed the most for you as an artist or as a person?
God, so much. What a great viral moment, as soon as I saw that starting, I was like, that's my year, baby. I don't even know where to start, it really is unbelievable what one song can do. I owe a lot to that. I think back to how innocent that night was, Shane [Shark’s husband] was at soccer practice, I was just at home and every time the house was empty, I would just write. And that night I wrote ‘Adore’. It's so nuts to see what's happened in the space of 10 years. All those gigs and everything I did [before ‘Adore’] I see as a big training session. When I see artists struggling now, after maybe a year of not getting anywhere, I'm like, that's nothing, don't give up. I've done my time, and I feel like that time actually is the reason why I hit the ground running and felt unstoppable, because I was just so mentally and physically ready for this life.
I've had so many amazing people around me, I don't feel like I have turned into a dick. I feel like I'm the same person, which is nice. I don't know you actually ever know if you've turned into a dick, maybe you just become the dick! But I don't feel like I've become that.
‘The Biggest Dick’ is out now via Wonderlick/Sony Music. You can download and stream here.
soft pop will be released on 31 July via Wonderlick/Sony Music. You can pre-order and pre-save now here.
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Read our six page article on Amy Shark in issue 17 of Women In Pop magazine
SOFT POP TRACKLISTING
’The Biggest Dick’
’It’s Kinda Hot’
’Child Of Divorce’
’Our Last Fight’
’Movies’
’Like A Doll’
’Ruins’
’Hotel Towels’
’I Know A Place Just Up The Street’
’Not Old Enough To Drive’
’Singapore Noodles’
