A level results and new single this week for Crawley singer-songwriter Scarlett

Crawley singer-songwriter Scarlett has offered very different songs with her debut and her second singles.
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The third one comes out on August 12 – and will be different again.

“I will choose a genre eventually, but for the moment I don’t really know what my genre is. I am branching out into all sorts of things until I know.”

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Her music has progressed rapidly this year, thanks to lockdown – a time which robbed her of the chance to do A levels.

Scarlett – the stage name for 18-year-old Amy O’Connor – explains: “I was about ten when I was first on stage doing school stuff, and then when I was about 14 I started performing properly. But in terms of making music, I started thinking about taking it seriously about two years ago.

“I didn’t want to just start without anything behind me, so for the past year or so I have been producing and composing a lot of songs so that I would be ready.

“And then a couple of months ago, I decided that I was going to take the plunge and release my debut single fully produced by me.

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“I always wanted to do something this summer. I just wanted to get my A levels out of the way….and then I didn’t have my A levels and I had lots of time at home.

“My A levels were taken away from me, and that was pretty hard.

“I had been working very, very hard, and now it feels like I haven’t had the chance to prove myself.”

Scarlett will find out this week what grades she is going to be given.

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She is hoping they will be enough to take her to Bristol to study psychology.

But in the meantime, she is enjoying the success of her debut single Mr Nowhere, which reached 1,000+ streams on Spotify in its first two days.

“I guess it is pretty rock-y. I don’t know if that is really my genre, but it is what I wrote. I composed it, produced it and did everything, and I still relate to it very heavily even though I wrote it a long time ago.

“It is about being more in love with the idea of love rather than actually loving someone.

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“It is about the fact that you have got to start by loving yourself.

“If you are going to open yourself up to someone and be vulnerable, then you have got to be able to understand yourself first.

“I am still learning it all myself. I am still young! But I think that to be vulnerable, you have got to know yourself.”

Single number two, in a very different vein, was Finches: “It’s a lot sadder, a lot slower, a lot more string instruments. It is about trying to break out of your past and not being stuck in your past even if people are telling you it is where you need to be.”

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The third single, Lazy Day, is in another different genre again.

“I have had two years of building up a catalogue. I have got a lot of songs under my belt.

“If I am lucky enough to go to university, I would like to release singles every few weeks – and hopefully be able to start performing again.”

Scarlett’s three singles are available from iTunes and all the usual download platforms.

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