
“Sometimes people just need to be told to f**k off,” says pop star Mabel. “I’ve got such a big mouth, I’m too sassy”.
To be clear, she’s talking about her battles with trolls on social media. From 2017 to 2020, the 26-year-old Mabel Alabama-Pearl McVey had an extraordinary run of platinum-selling hits. There was the breakout Finders Keepers, the exquisitely brassy Don’t Call Me Up and the bursting sex pop of Mad Love. But then she hit a wall.