{"id":185833,"date":"2025-10-02T20:36:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T20:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/185833\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T20:36:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T20:36:04","slug":"victoria-canal-reflects-on-lola-young-as-a-mental-health-artist-in-a-mentally-unhealthy-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/185833\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Canal reflects on Lola Young as “a mental health artist in a mentally unhealthy industry\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victoria Canal<\/a> has reflected on Lola Young<\/a>\u2019s recent decision to take a break from touring to focus on mental health, and explained how \u201cunhealthy\u201d it can be mentally to be a musician.<\/p>\n

Young announced earlier this week that she would be \u201cgoing away\u201d for a while, after she collapsed on stage in New York City from exhaustion<\/a>, and had to be carried off stage by a medical team.<\/p>\n

After the gig, she took to Instagram to reassure fans that she was \u201cdoing okay\u201d<\/a>, but then later announced that she would be pulling out of her Washington DC set at All Things Go the next day.<\/a><\/p>\n

Young was due to embark on a UK tour this autumn<\/a>, and has announced that she will be taking a break from all commitments for the \u201cforeseeable future\u201d to focus on mental wellbeing.<\/p>\n

Now, Victoria Canal has expressed her support for the singer and explained to fans how mentally exhausting life on the road can be, with circumstances getting harder over time.<\/p>\n

Beginning her post, Canal shared how she noticed a similarity between what happened to Lola Young in New York, and what happened to Lewis Capaldi in 2023<\/a>, when he \u201ccancelled all future dates in light of his Tourette\u2019s symptoms being exacerbated on stage\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t help but draw the thread that these are two (of many) artists in the modern era that qualify as Mental Health Artists \u2013 the ones that openly address mental illness and visibly hold it all more heavily,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThe irony is, taking it slow, taking many years to hibernate and process, is exactly what a person of that kind of disposition has to do to stay well \u2013 and this is not a slow industry. With every passing year, artists are pushed to release more constantly, tour more constantly, achieve achieve achieve \u2013 because everyone is terrified of losing the hype.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a rational fear \u2013 things really don\u2019t last. This is a bitter pill to swallow. You could be nominated for a Grammy one month and find yourself struggling to get one per cent of your fans to engage with you the next,\u201d the singer added. \u201cYou could have a hit song on the radio and be struggling to pay rent a year later. We are all clawing at the edges of whatever relevance we manage to find, pressured to keep riding the wave for as long as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

She went on to recall how she recently saw an artist \u201csobbing\u201d in a hotel lobby recently from exhaustion, and added that she has seen her own career slow down \u201cbecause I have prioritised, above all things, my mental wellbeing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adding more about her own experience of mental health struggles from being in the music industry, she wrote: \u201cI\u2019ve definitely considered in moments this year that by slowing down and moving out of the city to the French countryside, l\u2019ve given up getting to the top of the mountain I was trekking, before I even got that far. The truth is, I\u2019m still trekking \u2013 music is the only thing I ever want to do \u2013 I just don\u2019t want to have to hollow out every part of me to be considered \u2018successful\u2019 at it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Concluding, she added: \u201cI\u2019m taking pit stops to sit and enjoy where I am, to assess how I\u2019m showing up for others, to decouple myself from the hierarchy of online relevance, to take the pressure off of achieving *everything* *right* *now*\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd who knows, maybe it means I\u2019ll get dropped, maybe it means I\u2019ll have a smaller audience, maybe it means I won\u2019t live that Big Star life and that I\u2019ll never win a Grammy. But at least l\u2019ll be in a place where I actively choose my life, and I learn to stay well. That\u2019s what I hope for artists right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Back in 2023, various figures from the music industry spoke to NME about the \u201cdangerous\u201d impact that touring can have on musicians<\/a>, while offering up help and advice for World Mental Health<\/a> Day.<\/p>\n

Mental health charity Mind<\/a> have also shared how people working in the music industry are \u201cmore prone to mental health problems than the general population\u201d, with \u201cmusicians being up to three times more likely to suffer from depression\u201d.<\/p>\n

Around that same time, musicians\u2019 charity Help Musicians reported a 200 per cent increase in people engaging with their services over the past two years<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There have been efforts to help provide more support for artists prevailing in recent years. Earlier this summer, the Music Industry Therapy Collective (MITC)<\/a> set up the Online Tour Health And Welfare Coaching<\/a> service \u2013 a 24-hour mental health support service available for touring professionals working in music, including artists, production staff, promoters, venues and agents<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Before then, the Universal Music Group<\/a> announced the launch of a new music health fund in partnership<\/a> with the Music Health Alliance in February.<\/p>\n

It builds on its four-year healthcare programme through personalised recommendations for mental health counsellors, grants to offset costs and funding resource recommendations if necessary to ensure the continuation of care through additional financial and mental health support.<\/p>\n

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