In 2017, musician Amy Allen was sitting alongside her then-bandmates in the kind of record label meeting many artists dream of. But as one of their tracks played in a room full of execs, she couldn’t ignore the “sinking feeling” in her stomach that she “wasn’t good enough.”
Eight years later, the Grammy-winning songwriter considers that moment to be the one she realized she wanted to pursue songwriting for other artists rather than performing herself—and just how determined she was to do so. Speaking to Marie Claire of the turning point, she says: “I listened and was like, How dare I try to get signed to a label before I fully believe in it? And I didn’t yet. I was like, I know I can write better songs than that.”
