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ESSEX, England — The 1960s music of Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie and Woodstock left a deep impression on English singer and songwriter Kayleigh Walker, and those influences pushed her to produce her debut single and video, “Psychedelic.”
Released in August 2023, “Psychedelic” is steeped in the color and vibe of an era when music was changing and the world was changing from more black and white to a wild array of colors and emotions.
“I love the 60s, I love that whole psychedelic era and how everyone got pulled together and I wanted to write a song that represented how that music makes you feel without the influence of LSD and other substances,” Walker said. “I wanted it to be about how music makes people get up and makes you feel good. When I was writing it I was reflecting on how I was growing as a person in the music world and how I felt like a little bit of an outsider.”
Walker said she wasn’t alive in the 1960s, but documentaries and videos of that chaotic time inspired her soul and creativity.
“I watch a lot of documentaries on Woodstock and I liked the whole 60s vibe with the live instruments,” Walker said. “I wanted to do something that was kind of relevant to everyday music that we have now in this generation but I wanted to reflect on when music was at its highest where people were being themselves. When I was writing I also had that vision from day one that it needed to be that 60s psychedelic meditation of a higher self and that's what I wanted to create. I had a vision of while I was writing the song of what I wanted the video to be like.”
Walker lives in Essex, a county northeast of London, and started her music career in a cover band before branching out on her own. She has talent, style and showmanship she puts it all on display with a 1960s kaleidoscopic video to go with “Psychedelic.”
“When I was younger I always wanted to be in front of the camera or I wanted to be a singer,” Walker said. “Growing up I was doing a lot of musical theatre performances, local ones. I knew that singing other people’s songs never felt quite right for me. I always wanted to go off and improvise and do my own style on it. It wasn't until I was in my late 20s that I realized I kind of wanted to write my own songs but I wasn’t sure how to because I don’t play any instruments.
“In between that I was doing a little bit of modeling, thinking I might go down that route, but everything led me back to the music. It was definitely during the pandemic that I realized I could not put the pen down, I was just writing and writing and writing, getting melodies in my head and then taking them to the producer.”
Walker said the song is getting great traction and people are starting to notice her more and more. She’s working on more songs and an album to come out later this year and she’s looking forward to performing on stage.
“I’m a bit of a storyteller, so my songs are more story-based rather than love stories,” she said. “When I’m writing it’s like very poetic and I like to really live in a fantasy when I'm writing as well as reality. I’d really like for people to know I don’t follow music trends, I do what shows my heart’s purpose and my life’s purpose. I’m not everyone’s cup of tea but I enjoy what I do and that's what makes me me. I want more people to be like that, to think outside the box and don’t follow trends and be more unique.”
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NETHERLANDS — August 26, 2026 — Brook Lynn is stepping into a new chapter with “Love Your Enemy,” an atmospheric alternative pop song that turns an intensely personal battle with anxiety into a message of self-acceptance. Written after her America’s Got Talent auditions, the song captures the internal conflict of facing the person who can be hardest to silence: yourself.
Built around cinematic production and emotionally restrained vocals, “Love Your Enemy” explores the disconnect between appearing fine in public and confronting difficult thoughts in private. The song’s central message is reflected in its chorus, where Brook Lynn sings about being “my own worst company” before arriving at its most hopeful realization: “They say, ‘Love your enemy,’ / So I’m learning how to love me.”
For Brook Lynn, that “enemy” is anxiety. Rather than presenting it as something that simply disappears, the song examines what it means to live with those thoughts while refusing to let them dictate what comes next.
“I always want to give a hopeful message in every song,” Brook Lynn explains. “I always first want to explain what is happening in your head and what you feel, and then, at the end, give a message that you can get out of this, and that anxiety doesn’t have to hold you back from all the things you want to achieve in your life.”
That message became especially significant when Brook Lynn made the decision to perform “Love Your Enemy” on America’s Got Talent. Known by many viewers for her stripped-back cover performances, she recognized that performing an original song on one of television’s biggest stages carried a different kind of risk. But she also knew she could not continue forward without showing audiences the artist behind the covers.
“I just thought it was really important to also show the world that I’m not just a cover singer,” she says. “I do want people to know that I write songs and I want to be an artist and put that out there.”
Brook Lynn performed “Love Your Enemy” during the America’s Got Talent quarterfinals, bringing the song’s story of anxiety and self-doubt directly to a massive live audience. Her journey on the show ended there, but the response made one thing clear: listeners wanted to hear more. Fans connected not only with her voice, but with the honesty behind the performance and the willingness to speak openly about emotions many people struggle to acknowledge themselves.
“I do want to be that person with my music as well for other people,” Brook Lynn says, describing her desire to write about real experiences and feelings. “I always want to be really real with everyone, like talk about deeper stuff, not surface level.”
“Love Your Enemy” arrives as Brook Lynn looks ahead to Tales From The Woods, an upcoming EP intended to introduce listeners to a broader picture of who she is as an artist. With only two original songs currently released, she says she is excited to share more music and continue developing the sound and emotional world introduced through “Love Your Enemy.”
The song is not a conclusion to Brook Lynn’s story. It is the beginning of a more open one—one where anxiety can be acknowledged without being allowed to take control, and where the feelings people are often afraid to say out loud can finally have a voice.
Listen to “Love Your Enemy,” which received promotional support from Starlight PR.
Brook Lynn creates music that feels intimate yet powerful, cinematic yet emotionally exposed. Blending atmospheric alternative pop with minimalist visual storytelling, her work explores vulnerability, isolation, emotional tension and human connection through a distinctly modern lens.
Raised in Wilp, a small town in the Netherlands, Brook Lynn grew up surrounded by silence, nature and isolation. Music became a private emotional outlet and a way to process feelings that were difficult to explain out loud. What began through stripped-back online performances evolved into a growing global audience drawn to her honesty and emotional depth.
For Brook Lynn, music is never just about being heard. It is about being understood.
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