{"id":58554,"date":"2015-10-07T16:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=58554"},"modified":"2016-09-22T14:28:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T14:28:37","slug":"best-next-mabel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2015\/10\/07\/best-next-mabel\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of the Next: Mabel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The R&B-wrangler carving her own path.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Taken from the 10th Birthday Issue of Wonderland.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Jacket by ICEBERG and t shirt by RIVER ISLAND<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cToday, I played her some new stuff and… it\u2019s not crying, it\u2019s sobbing when I put it on, so I\u2019m still hesitant when it comes to playing her my music.\u201d It turns out \u201cher\u201d is none other than 90s sass-rap queen and pop producer Neneh Cherry. Imagine reducing \u201cher\u201d to tears…<\/p>\n

With a childhood spent surrounded by the\u00a090s icons we now fetishise in the name of throwback, McVey was raised on an intravenous music diet. But it wasn\u2019t until she hit 16, while studying music production in Stockholm, that she was ready to share her sound. \u201cI just kept it to myself,\u201d says McVey with a coy smile. \u201cI was sort of waiting for it to go away, the urge. I didn\u2019t think it was going to be serious.\u201d<\/p>\n

Refreshingly self-deprecating despite her enviable genes (her dad is Cameron McVey, famed for his production work with the likes of Portishead and All Saints), McVey says she\u2019s reluctant to be labelled a rock star baby. \u201cI\u2019m really proud of the things my parents have done, but I didn\u2019t really want them to become a part of my thing,\u201d she explains. \u201cSaying that Destiny\u2019s Child and Lauryn Hill are my biggest inspirations in a really cool music school in Stockholm – where everybody just listens to indie – is the biggest taboo ever!\u201d she laughs.<\/p>\n