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Like everyone on Earth in 2020, Regal Rapstar was affected by the coronavirus. Even when he tried to learn more about it through resources like the library, he couldn’t do that because it was closed. However, he put pen to paper to express how he felt about it with this song. And, as time went on, he was able to do the research he wanted to. Written throughout the course of the pandemic, the song is a diss track against the coronavirus and in 2024 - a victory anthem too.
The coronavirus shifted how we do anything and everything but in 2020 we had no idea what we were in for. Regal Rapstar said the feelings of uncertainty, frustration and urgency were the inspiration for the song. He shared he knew people that had caught the virus and has his suspicions that he likely caught it himself as well.
“I felt isolated from the world and the walls were closing in. I felt like a bull looking at a red flag. I was frustrated with the coronavirus and wanted to go heads up with it and beat it.”
He recalled how as a nation, we’d gone through other similar situations where we overcame a widespread virus. Hearing relatable music is something that draws listeners in every time and with Regal Rapstar speaking on this topic, everyone has but no choice to relate to it. It’s something everyone has a perspective on and has been affected by in one way or another.
“I wanted people to realize ‘We have a song about this and we beat it.’ I wanted people to realize we can inspire ourselves to keep on going.”
Regal Rapstar is a West Coast artist but doesn’t let that stop him from being diverse. With love for West Coast legends like Dr. Dre, he prides himself on his wide range of production skills. He has other songs with a strong West Coast vibe but this song is something different entirely. It’s an almost menacing sounding track with no regional ties sonically because the coronavirus affected everyone.
“I can do any style of hip-hop. I’m open to any style…It was not just about the West Coast. It was something that was happening to the whole country and the whole world.”
The footage we’ve all seen from cities on lockdown during the pandemic is practically dystopian and will be etched in our minds forever. Regal Rapstar compiled clips from various sources including films like Contagion for the music video for this track. Inspired by documentary directors like Michael Moore, he wanted the video’s footage to feel like a documentary itself.
Regal Rapstar has been rapping since he was 19 but he calls this release his “first professional step.” He’s kept up with how the music world has changed in real time and knows what he must do to keep up with the streaming era. This track was released through his own label called Regal Records/National Digital and he has plans to release more music in the future.
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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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