Raise your hand if you found a lot of your favorite artists today, through hearing their unreleased bangers on TikTok. Back in the days you had to listen to the radio, watch music channels like MTV or go through YouTube to discover new music. Nowadays, you can find any artist in any country in whatever genre with just a few clicks and scrolls. How crazy is that? And you get to connect and interact with these rising artists themselves, just like fans have with singer and songwriter Mimi Webb. But who is the British whirlwind that has caught young people’s attention worldwide, and who is she to them?
Being musically trained from a very young age, Mimi already set a base for what was gonna become her professional purpose and career path. A lot of us discovered her in the pandemic, watching her playing new songs to her friends and family in her car or reacting to hearing herself on big UK radio stations for the first time. She caught people’s attention not only with her ability to fill her lyrics with real emotions and relatable stories, but by being her charming and humble self. For her fans, her music came at a time when they were going through similar emotions and it created a safe space and escape from reality. When you hear songs that describe exactly what you are going through, it makes you feel heard and it could even help you heal. Dealing with toxic relation- or situationships is never easy, but knowing that someone your age is facing the same issues makes their music even more special.
To her fans, Mimi Webb is not just an amazing singer, she is like a close friend, a part of their happiness and their rock in troubled times. They describe her as warm-hearted, caring, goofy, passionate, loyal and extremely versatile with everything she does. Whenever they are feeling down, they press play on her music and scream their souls out to her songs. Imagine having something to comfort you at your lowest and someone who tells you that, if you fight, you can reach any goal. Artists like that are what the young generation needs, but society as well as the industry itself still takes them and their impact for granted.
What a lot of people forget is how young Mimi is and that she is still learning, just like you and me. Despite being only 22 years old, she is extremely dedicated and puts a lot of effort into everything she does. And no matter how much her popularity has grown, she always takes time for her fans, she supports them just like they support her and has always been genuinely grateful for everything. When someone knew all the words to one of her unreleased songs on tour and screamed them to her front row, Mimi posted a video trying to find that girl, saying how she gave her the confidence to sing it and how grateful she was for it. During her shows she always interacts with her fans and makes their experience unforgettable. In return, they lift her up when she is at her lowest and make sure she knows how loved she is. Having such a beautiful and strong artist-fan relationship is the key to a long and successful career.
Mimi Webb is not just a gorgeous and wonderful young woman that showed up on your TikTok For You Page one day, but an amazing artist with a super unique voice and sweet personality. She deserves all the love and appreciation coming her way, because she writes music that does not just help her close a chapter in her own book, but becomes someone else’s guide to the healing that is long overdue. With songs like Roles Reversed and Red Flags from her upcoming debut album Amelia – coming out March 3 – she already gave her listeners a taste of what could be the final goodbye to the emotional weight they’ve been carrying. And if you have the urge to scream it a little bit louder, secure your ticket to her upcoming tour right now.
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