Amy Shark on the relationship butterflies that inspired sexy new song

Amy Shark has been making perfect “new love” pop hits for seven years but was tempted to hide the man who inspired them early in her career.

Amy Shark keeps it short but sweet with her new single. Picture: Supplied

Amy Shark’s new single Can I Shower At Yours captures the butterflies and vulnerability of finding new love.

Her stellar pop career is peppered with those kind of love songs, from her breakthrough single Adore to Everybody Rise, about “letting your guard down, looking a little pathetic and giving in.”

Sometimes they are inspired by reminisces of the early days of her relationship with husband and manager Shane Billings.

Now a Logies nominee, Shark returns to her pop career with Can I Shower At Yours. Picture: Supplied.

But the award-winning singer songwriter admits she was tempted to hide she was married when she finally scored a record deal, because old-fashioned music industry gatekeepers dictated female pop stars should keep their relationships from fans to make them appear more desirable.

Now she doesn’t hesitate to share with fans the hilarious throwback photos and beautiful loved-up moments with Billings on social media.

“At the start, Shane was like ‘Take our ring off!’ We were petrified because we had finally got a record deal and things were happening, and at the time, there was still this old-school thought that things might work better if I was ‘mysterious’,” she said.

“And now … people can think whatever they want to think. People get excited to see him; if they spot him side of stage at a show there are more photos of him than me!”

Shark and Shane Billings share their fun and occasionally romantic side on social media. Picture: Supplied.

Shark gets short and sexy on Can I Shower At Yours, perfectly timed for the TikTok generation at a whirlwind one minute and 54 seconds.

Pop songs have been shrinking over the past decade with many current hits clocking in under three minutes, including Kylie’s Padam Padam and Morgan Wallen’s Last Night.

Shark said she didn’t intentionally set out to create a song under the two minute mark to appeal to attention-challenged music fans.

But when she finished recording it with producer Dann Hume in the UK earlier this year, they were both shocked to find it was her shortest song.

“We all used to dive into records and listen to the songs in full, but even I flick through a song in 15 seconds on a playlist if it doesn’t grab me,” she said.

“So I am being smart about (pop) – I knew pace is a thing in pop right now – but I also didn’t really intend on it being that short.

“I don’t feel like it’s missing anything; when you get to the end, it feels complete.”

The Adore award-winning songwriter, who also picked up her first Logies nomination last week for her turn as an Australian Idol judge, is also playing to the viral potential of a dance video with her latest single.

Shark is busting out choreography for the first time in the Can I Shower At Yours video, although she declares she is a “bad dancer” who has also bravely shared her blooper reel with fans.

Can I Shower at Yours is out now.

Originally published as Amy Shark on the relationship butterflies that inspired sexy new song