As a child Mabel suffered from anxiety, and the family moved from London to Stockholm to manage it in a calmer city. It disappeared until her teens, when bullying reignited it. At music school, she felt isolated as she tried to fit in with her indie peers. “I remember trying so hard to get into Bon Iver,” she remembers. “I’d lie in bed listening with my eyes screwed up, like, ‘this is just depressing me’. I was so focused on being OK that it wasn’t my finest work.” She finished her studies at home, and decided to stop taking medication. “Being a creative person, I want to feel the highs and the lows.”
El colegio del que habla es el Rytmus Musikergymnasiet, el mismo al que fueron Robyn y Tove Lo.
