REGULAR listeners to Hertbeat FM will have been unable to escape a new song currently troubling the airwaves.

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It’s a seemingly upbeat little number entitled What Would You Do?, and it’s the first single by up-and-coming artist Scarlette Fever, released on download on Monday, March 1.

The track is currently enjoying heavy rotation on the Old Knebworth-based radio station and Scarlette’s debut album, Medication Time, is due to follow later in the year.

And after years of trying to crack the music industry, Scarlette – aka Karen Barrow from Codicote – is hoping 2010 will finally see her make it big.

After finishing her A-levels, the former Stanborough School student has performed at weddings, auditioned for Mis-Teeq – the band that launched the career of WGC star Alesha Dixon – and even aborted an original album of ballads, before reinventing herself as Scarlette Fever.

“I eventually learned that to be a singer, you have to be true to yourself,” said Scarlette, 28.

“I’m a very excessive, extreme person with a wild imagination and Medication Time captures every aspect of me.”

The album title is a nod to both the therapeutic nature of music and a quote from 1975 Oscar-winning drama One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher.

And her love of film is something Scarlette hopes will become a more active part of her future career.

“Since I already approach every song as a film, I’d like to write for films,” she said. “It’s a dream, but if you dream, you might as well dream big.”

What Would You Do? is out now on Starfisch Records. Click on the link on the right to download the single.