Amy Lawton’s New Single ‘Hurts Like Paradise’

It’s been awhile since last year’s country-pop banger “Undone,” but now the English beauty, with the girl next door appeal, Amy Lawton, is back with another addition in the form of her brand new track “Hurts like Paradise.” An upbeat song, with its use of major to minor chords, over a heartfelt, secret love story of a girl who fills her diary with the thoughts of a man who has no idea of her true feelings, the acoustic guitar-driven pop track, with Lawton’s soft, gentle vocals will have your heart wrenching for a summer romance, and will also put you in throwback mode to an era of “Ole-Skool” female singer-songwriters in the early noughties, such as Michelle Branch and K.T Tunstall.

Instantly hooked by its opening with a catchy melody and lyrics to sing-a-long to like “He likes girls, girls who dance, he says that I’m not like them, didn’t know if it was good or not,” you are then lead to the beautiful “Taylor Swift eat-your-heart-out” chorus, reminiscent of Swift’s “Stay, Stay, Stay” from the Red album era, for all those listeners excited and enthused to hear another great pop-rock singer, in the likes of our very own Amy Lawton. You can almost hear a slight yodel as she delicately sings “I can write it in my diary and I can wonder if he likes me,” over those major arpeggios performed on the electric guitar and that fast country beat that keeps listeners clapping in time to the rhythm and shimmying along to. Are we ready to hear some more songs from the talented Amy Lawton? Yes we are…