Not for breakout indie-pop artist Georgia Flipo, best known as G Flip.

It's a cherished moment for Flipo every time she writes "musician" under occupation before walking through customs. For so long she never believed it would happen.

"I would always dream of the day I could write 'musician' in those little boxes and now I get to do that a lot," Flipo says.

Outside the monumental success of Tones and I, no new Australian artist had shined brighter than G Flip in 2019.

It's been the classic meteoric rise. In February 2018 Flipo uploaded her track About You onto Triple Unearthed, hopeful someone may enjoy her bedroom-produced track detailing her on and off-relationship with girlfriend Jemma Williams.

About You instantly blew up, and practically overnight G Flip was the flavour of the month on Triple J.

"When I think back to that day, I woke up and I had no idea I was going to go to bed with a music career," she says.

"I woke up and I was still trying to make it and play drums in bands, was still playing weddings, teaching kids how to play drums, guitar and piano and then throughout the day I uploaded About You to Unearthed and the rest is history.

"I went to bed and I had a job title."

About You and the follow-up Killing My Time would poll in the Triple J Hottest 100 at No.38 and No.62.

Then in August G Flip released her debut album About Us, which debuted at No.6 on the ARIA charts. The album's slightly off-kilter pop melodies and arrangements, Flipo's inventive percussion and honest articulation of a tense love affair announced a special new talent.

About Us also received ARIA Award nominations for Breakthrough Artist and Best Independent Release, which were both won by Tones and I.

"I get a lot of lovely heart-warming messages," Flipo says. "It seems like people who have gone through some heartache or break up seem to really connect with the album, because the majority of it is about that.

"It's about a relationship that's on and off and missing someone and then loving someone so much and longing for them to be with you."

Flipo recently enjoyed her first break since About You's explosion, when she spent a week in Byron Bay.

But even the northern NSW resort town's famous laid-back atmosphere couldn't quell her desire to write music.

Flipo returned with nine songs to accompany her estimated backlog of 200. In order to get more of her music released, Flipo plans to produce the tracks with other artists.

"I write country songs, which is funny," she says. "Lots of country songs are about drinking and heart break, which is what a lot of my songs are about, so it's fitting.

"I'd love to see a country artist cut a song. I'd love to write a song in the K-pop or J-pop world and I'd love to get a song in the top-50 US charts. Another dream would be to have a song I've written Grammy nominated one day."

There's an infectious energy in the way Flipo speaks. Unlike many of her contemporaries, she's revelling in the spotlight music has brought. And underneath her skater-girl persona, lies a supremely driven individual.

"When I was a kid, I remember wanting to know how to moonwalk and every night before bed I'd practice and then two months went by and I could do it," she says.

"I was probably six or seven at the time. As a kid that taught you if you want to do something, you keep working at it until you get it and you'll always get the result you want.

"I feel like I adapted that to the majority of my life. If you work hard enough at something you end up getting there, you just have to go over and over it and practice and practice."

G Flip performs at Falls Festival in Lorne (December 30), Marion Bay (December 31), Byron Bay (January 1) and Fremantle (January 5).