Psycho (Amy Shark song)

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"Psycho"
Single by Amy Shark featuring Mark Hoppus
from the album Love Monster
Released22 June 2018 (2018-06-22)
Genre
Length3:26
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Mark Hoppus
Amy Shark singles chronology
"Don't Turn Around"
(2018)
"Psycho"
(2018)
"All Loved Up"
(2018)

"Psycho" is a song recorded by Australian singer-songwriter Amy Shark featuring Mark Hoppus of Blink-182. The song was released on 22 June 2018, as an album pre-order track, and as the third single from Shark's debut studio album Love Monster . [2]

Contents

Speaking to Beats 1's Zane, Lowe Hoppus [ clarification needed ] said he met Shark in Los Angeles and she asked him to work on something together, to which he agreed. [3] Hoppus said “Amy had this great idea for a song and for me it was a lot easier than working with a lot of other artist because her music is so sparse. A lot of times it's just her and a guitar, so even just her an acoustic guitar and maybe a beat behind it. My job was really easy, I just had to not over add stuff to kill the idea that she already had.” [4]

Reception

Madelyn Tait from The Music Au, in an album review, called the song the album highlight, saying "The stripped-back, mostly acoustic duet is sweet and has a slight pop-punk feel, and their voices nicely complement each other as they sing about love over fingerpicked, intertwining guitars and crashing drums." [5]

Cameron Adams from Herald Sun, in an album review, said the song "builds to a classy crescendo." [6]

Track listing

  1. "Psycho" - 3:26

Charts

Chart (2018)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [7] 130
Australian Artist (ARIA) [8] 14

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [9] Gold35,000Double-dagger-14-plain.png

Double-dagger-14-plain.png Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

CountryDateFormatVersionLabelCatalogue
Australia22 June 2018 Digital download OriginalWonderlick/Sony Music Australia

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