SMALL FISH IN THE BIG SEA
Anybody with a sibling will understand how no tool wields as much vehement, motivation-spurring power as spite. Sometimes it can lead to small victories, like whipping up the best chocolate cake on Earth to out-do your big sister’s custard tart, or getting better marks from an exam because you channeled all that rage over your brother’s last unfairly fruitful report card into study fuel.
But every once in a blue moon, spite will trigger a whirlwind of success that leads to international superstardom and choice spots in magazines like Australian Guitar (ahem). Such were the origins of Amy Shark: while the chart-annihilating pop queen never saw music as a viable career option in her formative years – “I thought I was too busy to learn an instrument; I just wanted to hang out with my friends,” she tells us – the
