Love Is Useless feat. Junny is a perfect song for when you feel like crying on the dancefloor. The tracks full on subby breakbeats are juxtaposed by an aching topline provided by Junny, the musical project of Jennifer-rose Tamati (she/her, Te Arawa (Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Mākino), Ngāti Tuwharetoa, Ngāpuhi).

"I'd been listening to a lot of mid 90s downtempo, a bunch of Everything But The Girl and I really wanted to try out using those kinds of sounds and just make something a bit heartbreaking" says Berry.

"The first thing I made for the track was the pad, I really wanted to create a kind of Playstation startup noise. The sub followed next, which is just the test tone from the Akai S950. I'm really fascinated by how this particular sine wave has a different quality to any other."

Tamati says that "working with Amelia is always so fun and natural - she has a strong idea of what she’s wanting to make and I do my best to understand and perform that. Once we’ve warmed up and laid down the central vocals I often get lots of ideas for adlibs and harmonies!"

"Jenn is amazing," says Berry. "The ad libs were all her and she just belted them out and they were immediately perfect."

Love Is Useless feat. Junny is accompanied with a music video made by Benjamin Zambo, a director and videographer who has worked with Princess Chelsea, Jonathan Bree, and Cut Off Your Hands.

"Love is Useless is so iconic Amamelia" says Zambo. "It's so referential and moody, but fun and full of expertly-used pop hooks."

"We watched a lot of old live performances and public access TV - Top of the Pops, Robert Ashby’s Perfect Lives, Abba videos, YMO, The Paul Lynde Halloween Special. We bounced around a lot of ideas for segments based on these shows. The idea was to treat it like a low budget variety show that we had just found and chopped-and-screwed to fit our song. That meant we could be very fun and inappropriate with our performances and costumes, and shoot extra segments that didn’t fit with anything. The song is very serious in its lyrics, so we wanted to hint at some painful past between the performers - but do it in a very stupid performative way."

Influenced by the slew of remixes found on CD singles of the late 90s / early 00's, Amamelia has commissioned two remixes of Love Is Useless feat. Junny. The first is a delayed dub mix from Sunreturn alum Baby Zionov, while the second sees Berry rework her own song, stripping it of it’s breakbeats and incorporating sleng-teng rhythm inspired casio, and virtuoso guitar solos.

Now that the song has been released Berry notes "to me Love Is Useless really is a send-off to that last set of music I made, a nice little cap on the WOW! era of Amamelia."