S7, Ep3 How to Fail: Mabel

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

Sony Music

Society & Culture

4.7 • 9.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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My guest today has the middle name Alabama-Pearl, which is pretty cool but NOT QUITE AS COOL as the fact that she's a chart-topping pop-star who has racked up three top-10 hits and recently wrote one of the best Christmas songs of all time, Loneliest Time of the Year (and I say that as a die-hard Mariah fan). Plus, my guest is still only 23 years old. Revolting.Yes, that's right, it's Mabel, a double Brit nominee and the creative brains behind the hit song Don’t Call Me Up, which was in the top 40 for four months. She was born in Malaga, went to school in Stockholm and now lives in London. Her creative lineage is quite something: Mabel's mother is Neneh Cherry, her dad Cameron McVey is a producer who has worked with Massive Attack, Portishead, All Saints and Sugababes, her uncle is Eagle-Eye Cherry and her step-grandfather is the legendary jazz musician Don Cherry. But her talent and self-possession is all her own. Mabel joins me to talk about her failure to remember lyrics, her failure to stay vegan (which is hilarious) and her failure to sleep, which is a first on the podcast and I'm so glad she decided to broach the subject of insomnia as I know it effects so many of us and is such a debilitating thing.Thank you, Mabel, for coming on the podcast and doing your research so well that you actually read my book first. I heart you hard for that.*Talking of that book...the Sunday Times Top 5 bestselling book of the podcast, How To Fail: Everything I've Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong is out now in paperback and available to buy here. * This episode is sponsored by MEYA, a new meditation app that uses the power of music to switch you into a meditative state. Download the app here to experience the power of MEYA mind journeys and a new way to fit meditation into your daily routine this January. *How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, produced by Naomi Mantin and Chris Sharp. We love hearing from you! To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com* Social Media:Elizabeth Day @elizabdayMabel @MabelMEYA @meya_app Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Channel 4 is the home of your next TV obsession. As the UK's biggest free streaming service,
0:07.9	they have it all from classic comedy box sets to shocking reality, gripping drama and
0:14.0	mind bending documentaries. They make content that's different from the rest and that
0:18.9	represents a broad cross-section of society. It's the home of unfiltered entertainment.
0:24.4	It's altogether different telling, made for you and happily for me because regular listeners
0:30.7	will know about my married at first sight Australia obsession. Currently on the TV, I cannot
0:37.0	get enough of it. I watch it every single night. I really miss it when it's not on on
0:41.1	the Sunday. And for anyone who doesn't know, it follows Australian singles who tie the
0:46.1	knot with partners selected for them by relationship experts, including male shilling, former
0:51.6	How to Fail podcast guest. They meet for the first time on their wedding day and we watch
0:57.1	to find out whether there will be perfect matches ahead or marriage mayhem. I love it.
1:03.5	So stream now on Channel 4. There is so much on there, including Maffsa and Scared of
1:10.0	the Dark, Danny Dyer hosting as eight celebrities of plunge into complete darkness for eight days.
1:16.0	How will Paul Gasco and Chris Ubank's scarlet mothat, Nicola Adams and others cope without
1:21.4	light, stream all of this now on Channel 4.
1:39.2	Hello and welcome to How to Fail with Elizabeth Day. The podcast that celebrates the things
1:44.6	that haven't gone right. This is a podcast about learning from our mistakes and understanding
1:50.9	that why we fail ultimately makes us stronger. Because learning how to fail in life actually
1:57.2	means learning how to succeed better. I'm your host, author and journalist Elizabeth
2:02.8	Day and every week I'll be asking a new interviewee what they've learned from failure.
2:09.5	My guest on this week's podcast is only 23 years old but has a career that belies her
2:15.3	youth. The singer-songwriter, Mabel, is a double-brit nominee and the creative brains behind
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