school<\/a>, I struggled with severe classroom anxiety and felt immense pressure to fit into a traditional setting, despite explaining that I felt unready.\n<\/p>\n\n \u201cUnable to speak up at the time, I turned to songwriting instead.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Ethan has always been passionate about music and draws inspiration from artists including Ren and YUNGBLUD.\n<\/p>\n
\n Many of his songs take inspiration from his personal experience with anxiety.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ethan said: \u201cIn my song Pseudonymous, the line \u201cPut me on the spot and I\u2019ll become candescent\u201d describes the humiliating feeling of being put on the spot in class-to the point where I once burst out crying in front of the room.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s an issue I feel needs to be talked about much more openly.”\n<\/p>\n
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Ethan Hooley (Image: Ethan Hooley)\n<\/p>\n
\n As a young artist, Ethan faces the challenges of setting up and paying for his music.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ethan produces his music on a PC with a gaming microphone and pays royalties to use beats in his songs.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ethan credits his family with supporting his music and keeping him going.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: \u201cI wouldn\u2019t be putting my music out there without them cheering me on every step of the way, and I have them to thank for keeping me going.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n See Ethan on Spotify here:\u00a0open.spotify.com\/artist\/6pHdZEYd1NwGlcuc7N4vh8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ethan Hooley, 15, who goes by the name \u201cTAXES\u201d, is a singer-songwriter from South Ham. His songs focus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":["post-609155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}