Aussie singer turned TV-star Sophie Monk is releasing new music for the first time since 2003, with her new single, Nice to Meet You officially dropping on Monday.
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Sophie has been teasing new music for quite some time now after appearing on last year’s season of The Masked Singer.
Then, in December last year, she released a two-and-a-half-minute audio clip of her singing something new, posting it to Instagram and asking for honest feedback.
“Song I recorded. I’d love your honest opinion 🙈. I recorded this in a bedroom with @garypintomusic The lyrics mean a lot to me. I only care what you guys think. I’m ready for criticism eek 😬,” she wrote nervously.
The raspy jazz-sounding tune was incredibly different to her stylings with girl group Bardot from the early 2000s.
The song has been created with Gary Pinto, who has worked with the likes of Guy Sebastian, Jimmy Barnes and Taylor Dane.
Sophie has also chosen to keep the recording quite low-key, opting to release it independently via Ditto Music rather than sign with a major record label.
After saying she would never sing again, it seems that Sophie’s inspiration to return to music was inspired by both her performance on The Masked Singer, and her fiancé, Joshua Gross.
“I think it’s been such a tough year and it’s such a fun, positive show,” she revealed to Now to Love when asked about her timing in joining the show.
“He [Josh] was really proud because I never sang, not even in the shower,” she revealed.
“I think I was just really young in the industry and I kind of went ‘I don’t want to do this anymore.’ He pushed me back into it and said, ‘I want you to start singing,’ so he was very supportive,” Sophie explained.
At the time of The Masked Singer, Sophie still seemed unsure about releasing music.
“I’d like to, I don’t even know how to go about it nowadays. In my day you’d buy CD’s from Sanity,” she joked.
However, the song is now here, and will be released on Monday, September 6.
