INTERVIEW: Mimi Webb on her second album 'Confessions': "I know what my morals are and what I value, and I don't really care what anyone else thinks."

Interview: Shalane Connors
Published: 30 September 2025

The UK’s Mimi Webb may have had a topsy-turvy start to her career, but in the past five years has more than overcome her unusual start, which could easily have become too much for a lesser artist. Becoming one of the first ‘pandemic pop stars’ she achieved huge international fame in the middle of the pandemic, bypassing every single traditional step such as performing live in person, and hitting the live promo trail, that most artists go through to give them the experience and confidence to hit the top of their game.

Webb thrived in the unusual environment and her 2020 debut single ‘Before I Go’ went viral on TikTok, and by 2021 she was in the UK Top 10 singles chart with ‘Good Without’ and performing on Ellen in the US - which just happened to be her first ever television performance, thanks again to the pandemic.. More hit singles followed, including ‘Dumb Love’, ‘House on Fire’ and ‘Red Flags’. Her debut album Amelia peaked at number four in the UK in 2023, and with her remarkable, soulful voice that adapts to deep, emotional ballads as well as joyful dance pop, she has become one of the most notable young artists from the UK this decade.

She has recently released her second album Confessions, created between London and Los Angeles, and it sees Webb take her music into a new territory, bringing a different confidence and showing a different side to her artistry and personality. Working with a number of major names including Meghan Trainor and Julia Michaels, Confessions sees Webb sing about love, empowerment and discovering her authentic self, in a way she has never shared before, against a soundscape that includes electronic pop, soul, R&B and ballads.

“I dug deep and figured out what I want to say not just as an artist, but as a person,” Webb says. “I decided to be brutally honest. It’s easy to be like, ‘Everything is wonderful’—even when there’s so much happening behind the curtain. I wanted to open up and scream, ‘This is who I am!’”

Opening track ‘My Go’ stamps that ethos on the album from the very beginning, and while on the surface it is a song about giving the brush off to a lover it can also read as Webb making a declaration of doing life her way from now on: ‘Timе to switch the dial…now it's my go,’ she sings to an upbeat pop beat.

Second single ‘Love Language’ is a gorgeous blast of electropop where Webb decides to forgo the pressures that come with dating and relationships, and just have fun. ‘No need for romantics / We don't need tomorrow's damage / Just fall hard for the night, talking my love language.’

Webb’s duet with Meghan Trainor ‘Mind Reader’ blends pop, funk and R&B, while ‘Kiss My Neck’ is a tender electronic ballad about falling into a relationship that no-one can find out about.

On ‘I Love You For Me’ and ‘You Don’t Look At Me The Same’ Webb tunes into the gorgeous,. soulful, emotive pop she made her mark with on tracks like ‘Good Without’ and ‘Dumb Love’. Both tracks manage to be big and cinematic without ever being over the top or too much as they look at a relationship that is not working the way Webb needs, either from a lack of commitment, or through a lover becoming distant.

The album moves into a heavier electronic, clubby feel on ‘Side Effects’ and ‘Crashing Out’, before the mood changes completely on the next track ‘Rom Com’ with it’s guitar pop-rock feel. The album ends on the title track ‘Confessions’, arguably the most vulnerable song on the album with Webb examining the pressure she feels to present a different person to the world ‘Crowded rooms get lonely, they don't know me…Wish that I could be myself just even half the time.’ It is an emotional end to the album, with Webb’s voice taking on a plaintive rasp throughout. It perhaps refreshingly doesn’t pretend to answer any questions, or resolve any problems, but remains simply as a statement from Webb that leaves us feeling we know her just that much more as the album closes.

Webb has always made music that has stood out from the crowd, thanks to both her stunning voice and her ability to authentically inhabit opposing ends of the musical spectrum - deeply emotional soul through to joyful dance pop. Confessions sees her continue to build on her artistry and is a collection of 12 elevated, emotive and connective pop songs that showcase her growth as both an artist and a person.

We recently caught up with Webb to chat all about the creation of Confessions.

Hi Mimi! First of all, congratulations on the release of Confessions. How does it feel?
Oh, my God. It feels amazing. There's such big growth in this project for me, and I feel like everyone's been seeing that and vocalising it to me. So that's just been a dream come true, because that's what I wanted. I wanted this to really feel like the music was growing with me and evolving at the same time as I was.

As the title suggests, lyrically it’s a very personal album exploring the highs and lows of relationships, but at the same time, it's utterly danceable. It really drives forward, it's got really big energy and every track is a banger. How did you achieve that?
Oh I love that, thank you so much. For me, I just wanted to make my best, best music, and make it work together. Each song has its own story to tell, and its own sonic kingdom. Every song has got its own moment. So it was just so awesome to put all my best music in one place.

I have a standout track, I want to know if you have a standout track?
I think ‘Side Effects’ for me, because it's just so different. It's also got a darker, party mode vibe to it, which I think is really cool. It makes me feel really powerful and sexy and strong.

Amazing, I'm in love with ‘Narcissist’.
Oh yeah! So many people love that one, it is so fun.

And such a proper burn as well, that line ‘empathetic behaviour, I know it's not in your nature’. I'm not gonna ask you who it's about, but that must feel good to sing!
Honestly, I love it! It was a situation in a relationship from when I was younger, and if it happened now, I would have left within, like, five minutes. All the lyrics are super real, everything's so true about that story. It's scary that it is so true, but I’m proud of myself for writing something like that, because it had to be done. I had to get it out my system. I was really happy to finally get that written down.

So many women are going to relate!
Yay! That’s what we want, that's what we like!

You have collaborated with Meghan Trainor on ‘Mind Reader,’ who else did you work with on this album?
Yeah, me and Meghan did ‘Crashing Out’ and ‘Mind Reader’ together. ‘Mind Reader’ actually wasn’t going to be a collab originally, I didn’t want to do any collabs because I felt I just I wasn't there yet. I would really love to do something with Lewis Capaldi, we're really good friends, but our careers are just at different points ,he's just so big and having his moments everywhere.

But when wrote this song with Meghan in the studio, I was like, this is right in front of me, Meghan Trainor would be the most awesome collaboration. I didn't know if she would be up for it, but I couldn't hear her not on the track, I couldn't feel and hear myself doing it without her. She was down to do it, and I just couldn't believe it, it was like the most awesome first collaboration ever.

That's so cool! Tell me a bit about your songwriting approach.
I always get ideas of titles or I write down how I'm feeling, and then I take it into the studio and just start digging away at it really,

You've achieved a lot in a very short space of time. Your mainstream career has only been four years, but you have performed for the queen, you've been on the Jimmy Fallon show, you've been on sold out tours around the world, global festivals. Do you ever get nervous, or suffer from imposter syndrome? And how do you tackle that?
Yeah, I do. I do. When I'm doing my own shows and tour, there's never that feeling, because it's my space. But when I go to the parties and events and you kind of start to see all these crazy big famous people, it does get a bit scary. It's your comfort zone, isn't it? It's like, I'm happy where I was in my little bubble, and now I'm out of it, being pushed outside my comfort zone. It's really fun and cool, but at the same time, it can be really overwhelming but I also find it really interesting. I love people watching, and I love watching how people navigate themselves around rooms like that.. I just think it's just super interesting. But you do kind of feel like a small fish in a huge pond.

Who was Mimi Webb before embarking on this career? Did you have any other alternate career paths in mind?
I didn't. Honestly, it was always music. I come from a really lovely town in in the UK, in Kent,, all my school friends are still my friends to this day, I'm with my childhood sweetheart, he’s my partner now. I surround myself with home and family and friends. I think my music's just an extension of me, and my artistry is an extension of me, but I'm still who I always was.

I think that's why I love doing what I do, because I'm doing it the right way for me. There is a balance. I've still got my happiness, I've still got the right people around me, but at the same time, pushing myself out my comfort zone, pushing my boundaries and going out there and doing all these amazing, incredible things.

That's amazing. I imagine it's quite hard to keep grounded in such a public arena and being around people with such incredible fame, you're managing to not let it change you at all.
Yeah, all my school friends are like ‘you've not changed a bit’. I've always had people said that to me since I was young. I grow, but I don't lose those key parts to who I am, which I'm very proud of.

As you should be! Who were your influences in your formative years, and has that changed over time?
I started off loving very emotional artists like Emily Sandé, Adele, Amy Winehouse. I love jazz music, Nat King Cole, Louis Armstrong. To this day I love jazz, but as I've grown in the music industry, I am inspired by a lot of the pop artists like Dua Lipa and Tate McRae, the more pop-dance songs and R&B, like SZA. I definitely get a lot more influences from the current pop girlies.

You're about to embark on an UK an Europe tour. Any plans to come to Australia?
Oh my gosh, yes! I would love, love to be there. My boyfriend's mum is actually Australian, and he's obsessed with Australia, we talk about it all the time! The last time I went, I was only there for two weeks and I remember being so jet lagged. Next time I go, I need to make a proper trip out of it, get into the time zone, get into the lifestyle. So to your question, I will definitely be there very soon!

How do you imagine your audience receiving your music? What's your ideal? For me, this sounds like it's an album that you can cry to.
Yeah, this album I think is just so vibrant. There's so much to it. I think people being able to do whatever they feel will help them get through what they're going through. Like you said, you can cry, you can dance, you can scream to it, there's all these different things you can do while listening to this music.

A lot of it is just seeing the growth and journey in me, that’s what I wanted to show. I've just turned 25, I'm feeling a lot more sexy, I feel I'm growing into a real woman, I feel a lot more independent, powerful. All this growth and how I’ve evolved from my first album, I really just wanted people to see that. And people have seen that, they’ve come up to me and told me they can see the growth. And I love that, I want my fans to see that I'm growing and I'm evolving, and that we're all growing togethe, which I think is just so beautiful.

Do you think it's hard to as a younger woman to realise that you have permission to speak your mind and do what you want?
Yeah, I think it's scary, the world just gets scarier, honestly. Social media is just getting more powerful, once you've said something, it's there forever and I think that is very daunting. There's a lot of noise out there and sometimes you lose the meaning of what life really is with it all. That's why I feel on my first album there was a bit of naivety there, I wasn’t sure what I can say, what I can do, how far I can push the boat. And now it’s like I know what my morals are and what I value, and I don't really care what anyone else thinks. It’s bringing that sass and empowerment!

Confessions is out now via Sony Music. You can buy and stream here.
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Read more about Mimi Webb’s career in our four page feature in issue 11 of Women In Pop magazine.