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“I just write what’s on my mind,” JUSTHUTCH simplifies, when asked how her album concept, “Maze,” came to her. One of the things that makes this project so authentic is JUSTHUTCH’s natural ability to convey what she’s thinking just by stepping up to the mic and letting it out. She shares that she didn’t really think she could be an artist, because up until this point, she’d been experiencing music through the lens of a drummer and producer. Mind you, less than 10% of women in the music industry are drummers, and even fewer—only 2%—are producers (Musicwave).
Even so, from an early age, JUSTHUTCH was exposed to music by starting out as a drummer. Through jam sessions with various musicians over the years, she developed her own taste in music, moved out to LA, started producing her own tracks, and opened a studio. Vocals came much later. She laughs, that it felt like one day she just woke up and had to speak her mind. It was like a switch. And only just this year. Uniquely, the first track on the album, “Drums Intro” captures a live drum and jam session, where JUSTHUTCH shares she didn’t even realize they were recording, which later morphed into her freestyling over the creative session. From there, she wrote and produced the rest of the album “Maze,” which covers a myriad of emotions she was experiencing throughout this chapter in her life.
"Maze,” the title track on the album, gives us an inside look into JUSTHUTCH’s mind. Lyrics “Toxic love, you’re my drug” or her chorus line “I feel like I’m in a maze, shortie be playin’ for days,”
Sets an overarching theme for the album on how JUSTHUTCH navigates, like that of a maze, these toxic or fake relationships, where so many “games” are being played.
Another standout track, “Options,” delves deeper into these ideas, and reflects on unhealthy relationships while entertaining alternatives. The sultry guitar melody and ambient hip-hop elements strike a balance between apathy and introspection. Chorus lyrics such as:
“Options, it don’t really matter if you leave or stay,” “And I got time to play you in my head”
But as the song unfolds, JUSTHUTCH calls out the unhealthy performative and insincere nature of the relationship:
“Girl I’m in your lights, camera, action
I know you missin’ f***** with passion
Girl don’t ever get to actin’,”
Later in the song, a play on words,
“Girl you too fake, you two-faced,”
That shows there are better, more real options out there, than what JUSTHUTCH is experiencing.
Yet, JUSTHUTCH clarifies there’s no backstory to this album, she needed to write it for her, get it out, and move on to the next. She said it felt like a relief in a way. Music for many of us serves as a therapy whether through creating it or consuming it, and there’s tremendous power in doing the things for ourselves that can help us survive and… thrive.
When asked what she learned throughout this process, she shared exactly that: “Just do it—you can literally do anything, so do it for yourself. At the end of the day, it's all for you. If you like it, that's what matters.”
The truth is, the better we take care of ourselves, the better we can take care of others. But it all starts with showing up for ourselves; from the heart first, and there’s no selfishness in that.
As she continues to dig deeper into her authenticity, JUSTHUTCH shares there’ll be more music on the way!
To hear the start of it all: Listen to Maze here
Stay tuned to JUSTHUTCH’s socials for updates on the upcoming "Maze" music video.
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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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