“And I feel like maybe it’s something to do with the pandemic. “I’ve realized that there’s like a new trend where female artists…it’s a really good trend because people are being so vulnerable and honest about their feelings, but there’s a really oversharing trend and everyone’s just completely oversharing and it’s just so nice,” Humberstone says. Writing music is therapy for her, and she’s delighted to see the reception other young female artists who seem to approach writing this way are receiving. And I think there was something about the house that was really inspiring and it was just a really nice place to create my basket.” “But for me, it was where I always lived. My friends would always come over and just be like, ‘What is this place?’” she says. “We had a crazy basement and there were frogs down there sometimes. Her childhood home, which she describes as a “creative mess,” served as inspiration for tapping into her artistic side. She attended a conservative all-girls’ school and while it gave her many close friendships, she didn’t see anyone around her pursuing music. Despite her parents’ medical professions they introduced her to the creative arts (her mother is a cellist and her father a poetry aficionado). Humberstone grew up in the Leicestershire countryside, one of five sisters with parents who worked for the NHS. Yet in Humberstone’s words, she “really doesn’t have that much interesting s–t going on.” She approaches writing as more of a diary entry snippet of a moment in time, which seems to be working. Humberstone is incredibly nonchalant about her writing, despite it clearly striking a chord with her audience: at her New York shows, the crowd sang along with nearly every word, shouting the lines back at her as they swayed and snapped. While the first EP was written from her childhood home during her last few years of school, the new music comes from the next stage of life, as she left home and moved to London. It’s my favorite app on my phone, and I’m obsessed with it.” I’m on eBay every single day, bidding on stuff. “I love fashion, and it’s just so fun for me to dress up, and I care about sustainable fashion as well,” she says. She now runs the Swap Shop in the lobby of her shows as a kind of merch, and fans will bring clothes they want to trade with them to the show in order to participate. During lockdown she came up with a concept she calls Fifth Sister Swap, where she would post old items of hers on Instagram and then mail them to fans who were interested, and accept a swap in return. She’s also found an additional way to connect with fans by using her love of vintage clothing. It’s just so nice to be able to fully see these people.” I’m not unique in anything that I’m going through. Everything that I write about is really universal and everyone’s going through the same thing.
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“A lot of them are kind of around my age, so we’re going through the same kind of changes.
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I think that’s the cool thing about music, that we can connect when we’re on the other side of the world and we’re going through the same things,” she says. “I have no clue how these guys have kind of found my music, but it’s sick. She dropped her second EP, “The Walls Are Way Too Thin,” on Friday, and taking it on the road has been a surreal test of the way music is discovered these days: she may have had songs on the internet for a bit now, but from her perspective she’s been in lockdown in her parents’ house and now suddenly has fans in the U.S. “So it’s been really hard for me to gauge and to feel like it was actually real and there were actually legit people that pay for a ticket.” “I feel like my whole career has been over lockdown,” the 21 year-old says. is rather surreal for Humberstone, who released her first song shortly before the U.K.