SARA STORER’S NEW SINGLE ‘LAYERS’ TACKLES THE HIDDEN STRUGGLES OF BULLYING AND SOCIAL MEDIA PRESSURE ON TODAY’S YOUTH
Acclaimed singer songwriter, and 22 x Golden Guitar and ARIA Award winning Sara Storer today releases the second single, ‘Layers’, from her upcoming 8th solo album set for release in 2025.
Not one to shy away from calling out injustice when she sees it, Sara has long been an advocate for the marginalised and bullied, listening to their stories and weaving them into her songs.
Sara penned ‘Layers’ after being told about the bullying of a young girl in her community. Like most teens, she had been impacted by the perfect TikTok lives of her peers. Young people are consumed by a social media world which bombards them with images of impossible perfection, and we are now seeing the damaging effects of constant social comparison on their emotional and mental health.
Amid growing calls for social media age restrictions, Sara’s latest single, ‘Layers’, speaks to the harm inflicted on teenagers by social media and the rising concern of parents and the community for the future of our young people.
Produced by multi award winning Matt Fell, the song, as Sara tells it, is a tale parents and teens are living daily:
“This song isn’t going to change the world but too often I hear of another young girl battling the pressures of social media. All the good work parents do in building solid foundations of self-love, self-confidence, fearlessness and uniqueness all destroyed by unrealistic brain washing by social media.
Perfection: girls already have it! Then there’s a tough day at school because someone said something that gave them a little bit of self-doubt. Unfortunately, today, there’s no escaping social media. It follows teens home and reinforces those damaging ideas – once restricted to the school yard- well into the night.
Girls don’t get a break! And this torture eventually erodes the core love they have for themselves. Doubt creeps in. Social media overrides all the good the parents have done. It’s in front of them on a screen 24 hours a day constantly reinforcing perfect, perfect, perfect. What is left? A young girl with severe mental health issues and an unfair start in life.”
‘Layers’ cuts through the veneer of social media perfection and asks us to see that beneath it all “there’s a girl who wants just the same things as you.”