Have you seen the reboot of Heartbreak High? Of course you probably have.
Netflix decided to revive the iconic 90s Aussie show this year, and it’s proved to be a wise decision: the new Heartbreak High has remained in the top 10 TV shows on Netflix Down Under. It also spent three weeks in the global top 10, showing that there’s a global appetite to watch the chaotic events of Aussie high school life.
Thanks to its popularity, the show was confirmed to have a season 2 earlier this month, although it’s unclear when it will air.
While school’s out, one of Heartbreak High‘s students, Ayesha Madon, has plenty going on. She plays Amerie Wadia, a working class Indo-Australian girl, on the show, but Madon is also a rising musician, and released her new single, ‘Fish & Chips’, today (how very Aussie).
The follow-up to previous single ‘Goldfish’, Madon’s latest has a pretty intense origin story. :I wrote ‘Fish & Chips’ about a panic attack I had sitting at a lighthouse in Wollongong,” she says. “It was near where my family used to camp when I was little and going back there was so painfully nostalgic.
“I remember sitting on the bench by myself with fish and chips, taking a single deep breath and then crying into it. Being there reminded me of how easy and colourful life used to be but simultaneously exacerbated how much I felt it had fallen apart since then and how I had lost control of what I thought my life would be. I felt really lonely and lost and confused about the state of the world, the state of my family, career and myself.
“But at the same time, all of that was met by this cruel and simple dichotomy of every single part of this place being the exact same since I was a kid,” the multi-hyphenate adds.
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“So if I imagined hard enough I could just pretend I was still in 2003 and adulthood was but a mere Tim Burton nightmare sequence. But anyway the fish and chips tasted really good though so whatev…”
So before catching Madon back in school in Heartbreak High season 2, you can listen to ‘Fish & Chips’ below.
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