Sad Girl Rock Meets a Three Days Grace Producer on Amy Kisser’s I Think I Killed Me
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Sad Girl Rock Meets a Three Days Grace Producer on Amy Kisser's I Think I Killed Me
A Calgary Singer Turns a Toxic Relationship Into Two and a Half Minutes of Rock
I Think I Killed Me runs two and a half minutes and carries three writing credits. One of them belongs to its producer, Gavin Brown, a Juno winner for Record Producer of the Year. The song is the second single by Amy Kisser, a Calgary-born singer now based in Toronto. She files her music under sad girl rock. It came out on 14 August as the lead single from her first EP.
Amy Kisser’s new single is in the playlist below, and every article about the project sits on Amy Kisser’s artist profile. I Think I Killed Me reached BestMusic.News through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news sites. Play it once, then keep reading.
Fans of Evanescence and Three Days Grace Will Hear Where Amy Kisser’s Sad Girl Rock Comes From
The first audience is easy to name. Kisser grew up on 2000s hard rock, so listeners who shared that diet are the first this record reaches. She found Skillet at 12, through fan edits of a Star Wars cartoon on YouTube. Breaking Benjamin, Shinedown and Three Days Grace came next, and she saw the last of them live at 15 with her father. On the drive home nothing on the radio matched what she had felt in the room. That was when she decided rock did something other music did not.
Evanescence gave her a way in. Pop and musical theatre auditions kept failing, so she tried her next showcase with Call Me When You’re Sober. It was the lead single from The Open Door, which went to number one on the Billboard 200 in 2006. This time the showcase accepted her. Fans who came to rock through Amy Lee know this territory: a hard rock song about love gone wrong.
That Three Days Grace show closes the circle. Brown produced the band’s self-titled 2003 debut, the record that carried I Hate Everything About You. Now he has produced this single too. On I Think I Killed Me he also plays the guitars, bass, keyboards and drums. Kayla Diamond, the third writer, adds the piano. The result is a compact alt rock single with no slack in it, and Kisser sings it at full force. So for a fan of that band, the link is the person at the desk.
Early Response to I Think I Killed Me Started on a Toronto Stage Long Before Its Release
The song had an audience before it had a release date. In January 2024 it was already in the set Kisser played at The Bunker in west-end Toronto. The Eyeopener covered that show from the floor. She was a third-year music student then, and her only original single was Burn Me Alive, from 2022.
The studio version came later, through Awesome Productions, a Toronto label distributed by Sony’s The Orchard. That makes it her first release with a label behind it. In September musicismyradar reviewed it and read the title two ways. It could mean a self lost to a relationship, or a self taken back from one. Since then, the single has joined the BestMusic.News rock playlist.
BestMusic.News’s curator team: “Most breakup songs point at the other person. I Think I Killed Me turns the blame inward, and that is exactly what makes it hit.”
Amy Kisser’s Sad Girl Rock Community Runs From School of Rock Calgary to Toronto’s Clubs
The community around the record starts in Calgary, a city better known for country than for rock. Kisser came up through School of Rock there. She reached its Allstars level, which takes fewer than one per cent of students worldwide. Her YouTube channel still keeps the house band clips, such as a cover of Audioslave’s Cochise. At 18 she moved east to join the first class of the Professional Music degree at Toronto Metropolitan University. She later graduated with distinction.
Toronto is where the songs now live. Her own listings run from a show at the El Mocambo to a slot at The6ixStrings Showcase on 25 October. Meanwhile, the next single, Good Time, is already open for pre-saves.
Above all, the subject is what holds that audience together. The song deals with a toxic relationship, the identity lost inside it and the self-blame that followed. Kisser has said she wants listeners going through the same thing to feel seen and a little less alone.
Where to Stream and Follow Amy Kisser
Stream I Think I Killed Me on Spotify or Apple Music, or pick a platform through the smartlink. Follow Amy Kisser on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and her YouTube channel. You can also find every link on her Linktree and read more on her official site.
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