Alt-rock singer Skye Wallace takes fear head-on in "Tough Kid"

With a voice like a soaring instrument, unflinching lyricism, and a swaggering live show shaped by years on the road, Skye Wallace (she/they) is a singular force on a mission to melt faces and elevate heart rates. It is with their brand new head-turning single “Tough Kid” that Skye Wallace makes their production debut alongside award-winning co-producer and collaborator, Hawksley Workman. 

“Tough Kid” is the dancey, grinding, enormous tune dictating the death of fear, which signals the sonic storm that Wallace has in store for us. It's about the death of fear in us all – that moment when we let go of our inhibitions, bred from others' opinions and approval, and start 100% buying in on ourselves.

Wallace wrote it when she was feeling burnt out from hustling in the music industry for so long. So coming into this next chapter of new music, Wallace was fully armed with concepts, desires, and collaborators who re-lit their fire, and thus made a promise to only do the shit that filled their cup. Things like only making content for social media that they truly felt excited about, creating with inspiring and supportive pals – especially things that didn't have to be "releasable" or commodified – and being critical about what performance and career meant to them. 

Check out “Tough Kid” - out today:

https://music.skyewallace.com/toughkid

Watch and share the official music video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c0jTiK75w8&feature=youtu.be

“Before this song came to its full fruition and was still a pile of words and ideas, I had an image of this kid in my head that I was pumping up,” Wallace explains. “That kid represented anyone who needed to hear it, any kid who has been told they aren't allowed to be who they truly are, that they aren't good enough – I wanted this song to be a reminder to them that they've got a power in them that they might not believe in yet. It was only when we were designing the single artwork, which involved using an old photo of me at 10 years old, that I realized I had also been talking to my weird kid self. There's a power in looking back with pride and care for the kid you were.”

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