Artist:Sally

Armed with rousing anthems and skyscraper-sized ballads, Sally is the pop star you’ve been waiting for. Going simply by her mononym, this Australia-raised, New Zealand-based singer and songwriter is not the product of a marketing machine. Having carefully crafted her music behind closed doors, Sally is now poised to be heard much further afield. That moment has arrived with ‘Calculated’, her fizzing synth-pop debut. But drill past its unapologetically big hooks and you’ll find a song shaped by the hard-won wisdom of a break-up. “I think every song I write is a lesson,” Sally says. “I’d come out of a relationship and I was posting pictures that made it look like I was having a great time. I wrote ‘Calculated’ about those times, realising that you’re just making things look better from the outside.” "I feel like social media just becomes a viewing platform for a battle of who is the happiest post break up - it's fucked." Sally has delivered her first salvo as an artist like it’s ...