Sydney-based, Gold Coast-raised pop siren Charley today makes her debut mark with the single ‘Hard For Me’ out via EMI Music Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Written on the singer-songwriter’s first trip to the fast evolving US music hub of Nashville almost three years ago, and produced by Stephen Schmultz, Hard For Me is a glossy & fun yet fiercely honest pop anthem, an embracement of female sexuality & falling hard and fast in love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Me and my boyfriend had kind of just gotten back together again at that point. All of the butterflies were heightened again. I just wanted to write a song about how I felt about him and how it gave me such a rush when I looked at him. Everyone has been there! When you just\u2026 melt.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Co-written with Schmultz alongside Tom Jordan & Mitch Thompson, who make up the Sydney-via-Nashville duo Seaforth, the song is the result of what Charley refers to as “the best session I’ve ever done in my life.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hard For Me has been “a long time coming,” Charley notes. “And as a Virgo, I am not patient.” “In my head, this has always been my debut release. It’s got such a special place in my heart. I’ve had such a vision for every single part of it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Part of that vision is a self-written direction treatment for the official video, directed by MY Media Sydney’s Mitchell McKay. A professionally trained makeup artist, Charley’s video looks are self-designed for the Clueless-inspired clip that takes the potently visual lyrics of Hard For Me and brings them to life, with a huge pop of colour & sass. Watch the video here<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Born in Sydney into a multi-generational musical family, Charley grew up on the Gold Coast, raised on a healthy combo of starring in local musicals, Kelly Clarkson and The Veronicas CDs on her discman. A move back to her birth city in 2017 opened the window for Charley to find her musical kinship, discovering a mentor in UK superstar Jessie J before regularly collaborating with Australian pop limelights including Xavier Dunn, CXLOE & Carla Wehbe and revisiting the pairing with Seaforth that made Hard For Me possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stay tuned for more from Charley via EMI Music Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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