Lauren Spencer Smith turns pain into power on her fierce new anthem "Thick Skin"

Canadian alt-pop artist Lauren Spencer Smith returns with raw emotion in her surprise latest single, "Thick Skin," coming merely four months after her deeply introspective sophomore album, "The Art of Being a Mess." It serves more as an emancipatory progression, a reclamation of strength from hardship.

Co-written by stellar talents Cal Shapiro, Victoria Zaro, and Adam Yaron, who also produced the track, "Thick Skin" presents Lauren at her most unfiltered and empowered. It's a slow-burning anthem of a song that weaves weakness and victory together, indicative of her evolution as an artist, but also as a woman who has been through the fire and is shining all the more for it.

Fresh off her recent English duet with Alexander Stewart, "Friends Don't," this new single stands alone as a stripped-down anthem that resilience isn't crafted in comfort, but instead forged in pain. Featuring ghostly piano lines, a towering chorus, and a layer of Lauren's impeccable, show-stopping vocals, "Thick Skin" is a song as equally personal as it is universal.

"Thick Skin" is an anthem. It's Lauren Spencer Smith taking her narrative back, transforming her heartache into armor and inviting listeners wherever they are in the world to do the same. She does it all in three and a half minutes, reminding us once again that her greatest superpower is emotional honesty.

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