Mabel
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Buzz Magazine | December 2018 | Carl Marsh
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Carl Marsh talks to Anglo-Swedish avant-pop upstart Mabel about motivation, industry machinations and her musical heritage.
Is it true that you kept it a secret from your family [mother Neneh Cherry and father Cameron McVey] when you were writing music initially; was it the fear of failure in case you didn’t make it a success yourself?
I was just young and just figuring things out, I’d never thought about it being for anybody other than myself. I wouldn’t use the word ‘secret’, I would just say that I was just using it to journal things like how to process situations. There was no reason for me to play it anybody or I hadn’t thought about it as being a career or anything like that, I was just using it as a tool.
So what motivated you to write this music in the first place?
I don’t know, I think that I’ve always had things that I wanted to express and what I wanted to say. It was the main form of expression around me at the time of growing up, so....
Is it true that you kept it a secret from your family [mother Neneh Cherry and father Cameron McVey] when you were writing music initially; was it the fear of failure in case you didn’t make it a success yourself?
I was just young and just figuring things out, I’d never thought about it being for anybody other than myself. I wouldn’t use the word ‘secret’, I would just say that I was just using it to journal things like how to process situations. There was no reason for me to play it anybody or I hadn’t thought about it as being a career or anything like that, I was just using it as a tool.
So what motivated you to write this music in the first place?
I don’t know, I think that I’ve always had things that I wanted to express and what I wanted to say. It was the main form of expression around me at the time of growing up, so....
