Mess Her Up

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"Mess Her Up"
Mess Her Up by Amy Shark.jpg
Single by Amy Shark
from the album Love Monster
Released1 March 2019 (2019-03-01)
Length3:25
Label
Songwriter(s) Amy Shark
Producer(s) Dann Hume
Amy Shark singles chronology
"All Loved Up"
(2018)
"Mess Her Up"
(2019)
"The Reaper"
(2019)

"Mess Her Up" is a song recorded by Australian singer-songwriter Amy Shark. The song is about a woman cheating with her best friend's boyfriend [1] and was released digitally on 1 March 2019 as the fifth single from Shark's debut studio album Love Monster .

Contents

At the ARIA Music Awards of 2019, the song was nominated for three awards Best Female Artist, Video of the year and Song of the Year. [2]

At the Queensland Music Awards 2020 "Mess Her Up" won Highest Selling Single. [3]

Music video

The music video was released on 28 February 2019. [4] The video was co-directed by David O'Donohue and Shark with a narrative following a complicated love story. Shark said: "It was important for me to be involved in the process as I was the one who came up with the concept of these two worlds that play out through the video. Mess Her Up is a very deep and emotional song and I needed the actors to do it justice." The video was produced by Felicity Jayn Heath and shot in Los Angeles. [5]

Track listing

  1. "Mess Her Up" (single edit) – 3:25
  2. "Mess Her Up" (acoustic) – 3:30

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2019)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [6] 29

Year-end charts

Chart (2019)Position
Australia (ARIA) [7] 81
Australian Artist (ARIA) [8] 13

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [9] 2× Platinum140,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

CountryDateFormatLabel
Australia1 March 2019 [10] Digital download, streaming Wonderlick, Sony Music Australia

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