The Derry native on problematic lyrics, mental health, and her exciting new album
Adopting her moniker at 13, she broke through a few years later, seemingly full-formed, blessed with charm, compassion, new ideas, and an old soul.
Then, for the most part, she sank into shadows. Four years can be a long time between your first and second record, particularly when a wave of success courts pressure.In that time, she toured hard, burned out, decamped to Manchester, and found more of herself. "I did that with my first album as well, and I guess this is an extension of that. How the story continues is that my life goes on."The whole concept behind it is this being a ‘life trainee’ - I’ve come to use the term, leaving your teenage years and learning how to become an adult, what that’s about, learning this whole new world of expectation and how to manage that and ease into it, with all of my friends doing the same thing.
Yes, she's quite fond of Derry Girls, endorsing its"heartwarming" status as a show that has put Irish colloquialisms and her hometown on the map.A fortnight after this interview was conducted, 29-year-old journalist Lyra McKee was murdered in the most senseless and cowardly of circumstances.
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