In her other job as a judge on Australian Idol, the singer-songwriter Amy Shark spends a lot of time with budding musicians looking for their big break. It generates an uncomfortable sense of deja vu.
“I hear a lot in the hallways about how hard it is, like, ‘I’ve been at this for a whole year!’ And I’m like, ‘Oh, a whole year?’” she laughs, putting on the sort of jovial, mock show of sympathy you might offer a grown man who cries after stubbing his toe. “Babe, it’s not meant to be easy!”
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