I wanted to put that in my plan and be like this is totally natural, and this is how to deal with it, or this is how I dealt with it. Now, I know it really helps you connect to your fans. I think you handle it brilliantly. Can you talk about your decision to be so open about your life with your fans?
I was the first person to do that. I ended up being the third most-watched video in the world on YouTube that year and the most Googled artist. I suffer with depression; I suffer with anxiety. And the movement of like, I just want people to be kinder. For a long time, I used to let it cut me right to the bone because the first thing I am, out of any other trait, is so sensitive.
People say things to me, and it really hurts me. Sometimes it sits in my brain all day long. I can remember some four words that people called me five years ago—I am so sensitive. What people keep telling me well, as a musician, you should have thicker skin; you should expect this.
Then we will all be muggers. For those, really, the best thing you can do is block and move on; people tell me that too. I instead get all hung up about it. But my advice is stay centered. I like that advice. What else have you been doing during the pandemic to stay mentally healthy?
Running is huge for me; it helps me stack things up a little bit better. I have a piano, and I learned to play the piano during lockdown. People have different things that they had been doing during this time with no end in sight yet.
Have you started working and maybe talking about some tour dates, kind of throwing things out there? So currently, for the first time in a decade, I have no shows booked, which is weird. The summer will be better because we can do more outside stuff, but we keep getting new variants here. The more variants, the less chance we have of playing shows.
I know this is like a setback, and I understand that. What do you miss most about touring? Of course, traveling and being in new cities, but what do you feel are some of the aspects you miss most? Meeting people. My UK shows are different too. In the UK, I might play to like three and a half thousand in a night, and then when I come and play in America, I might literally play to thirteen people at a show or or Can you talk a little bit about your inspiration for writing this book?
To be liberated, but also one of the underlying messages in it is about being a woman—not just in this industry but in this world. The older I get and the more I do things with my body, which is really interesting because physicality has never been brought into my career until I started doing fitness. It really covers all of that sort of stuff. So I have a couple of fun questions. I feel like it would have to be, I guess, a greatest hits album by Dolly Parton or a best of Fleetwood Mac— Rumours, actually.
I always said that, but the culture is so different here. We will come and watch you if you can prove it. All I ever need is one tiny chance. I traveled thirty-two states in the three months that I was in America. I ran out of money after about three weeks. I think the music scene here in the US is very supportive. Your live performances on YouTube and your streaming shows are great. The albums are great, but to me, getting to see you live is that experience—that one night only.
What do you think the music industry is going to be like on the other end of this virus? Then we got wiped out by this pandemic. I agree with that. We know you love being on the road and recording. Is there anything new and exciting happening that has unraveled in the last couple of weeks that nobody knows about yet? There will be a few more live streams, and the list of countries that our last one was streamed from was amazing.
Do you have any advice for young musicians trying to get started in the industry? Mine was a guy at an acoustic night in a pub who was in his fifties who just has a love for what you do. He died, but he was the one who took me to a local radio station. He got me my first show. Thank you. Thank you so much, Lucy, for being with us. Lucy Spraggan — Choices. I am really fucking sorry.
The album, that was originally supposed to be released on the 16th of October, will now be available on the 26th of February She also released the music video for the song.
To mark the occasion, the singer went live on Instagram and Facebook to answer fan questions, before the video premiered at 10am on YouTube. She was very excited for the video and said in an Instagram video that Flowers is her favourite song she had ever written. She also shared a behind the scenes video on her social media, which gives fans an inside look at the work behind the sultry video. Good lord I am excited. Lucy shot to fame after appearing on the X Factor in
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