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Mia Rago is a classically trained opera singer who makes music that on the surface is completely unrelated to that genre: indie pop. However, there is more overlap than one might realize. On her new single “The Shower,” Mia challenges all sorts of musical norms by crafting a break-up song that’s not sad but upbeat and 100% uniquely written and composed. Written from multiple personal experiences, Mia describes the song as a “big run-on sentence.” Post break-ups can be wrought with emotions and Mia aimed to capture all of them in a song that remained pleasing to the ear.
“I kind of wanted to capture that craziness of how love can make us feel insane sometimes.”
This single comes from Mia’s upcoming album Wishing We Could Dream which chronicles multiple situations throughout her life. By reflecting on them through her lyrics, she was able to craft a song that she hopes is relatable for listeners who’ve been through break-ups of their own. Connections like these are one of her favorite things about songwriting because individual experiences actually become shared experiences. And, while the experience may not have been the best, there's a certain comfort that comes from not going through it alone.
“I want people to be able to sing along with it because it is an upbeat song.”
The music video for “The Shower” releases on August 19th. Directed by Lindsey Torres, the video is simplistic yet still concept driven. Conceptually crafted through a joint effort between Mia and Lindsey, they wanted to depict situations that one might go through post-break up. This keeps the relatability factor Mia was going for intact.
Sonically, Mia aimed to make the song “playful.” After bringing the melody to her producer Megan McCormick and working with musicians, they created a song with prominent guitars and just enough drumming to give the song a uniquely light tone. The verses are the highlight of the track, with uniquely written lines where what sounds like the end of a sentence is actually the continuation of one.
As surprising as it may seem, Mia’s background in opera singing helped her sing this indie pop song. The various vocal techniques she learned from one world still applied to this one.
“...I was able to experiment with some of my vocal training…it was a lot of fun to sing really high in the chorus…my technique has helped me to be able to sing that chorus much better than I would have a few years ago.”
Mia hopes to continue bringing her two worlds together through her music. In the future, she plans to incorporate more classical and opera based elements into her music and bridge the gap between the two to expose more people to the beauty of the genre of opera.
“It's really all around us and I just don't think people pick up on it all the time. I would want to kind of show it to people and then they could connect it with something that they've seen. And then it kind of becomes more relevant that way. I feel like everyone could enjoy it, they just aren't looking in the right places.”
Mia’s previous single “All of My Scars” is a deeply personal and vulnerable story and is also available on streaming services now. She’s got even more singles on the way before releasing her album, Wishing We Could Dream, in 2025.
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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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