{"id":420197,"date":"2026-02-11T16:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/420197\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T16:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:31:15","slug":"singer-mimi-webb-reveals-which-disney-star-she-embodies-as-she-opens-up-about-new-music-and-overnight-viral-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/420197\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer Mimi Webb reveals which Disney star she embodies as she opens up about new music and overnight viral fame"},"content":{"rendered":"

British pop star Mimi Webb<\/a> has opened up about how Disney is at the heart of everything she does.<\/p>\n

In a new interview with the Mail, the singer, who won the 2023 Brit Award for Best New Artist, also revealed how recording her new album has been a \u2018therapy session\u2019 and how shooting to fame overnight was \u2018scary\u2019.<\/p>\n

Mimi, 25, whose real name is Amelia, has released a Disney clothing collection, called The Mouse & The Muse, which has launched in Primark.<\/p>\n

Speaking about her love for Disney, she said that Hannah Montana<\/a> inspired her when she was younger because of the two separate characters and personalities.<\/p>\n

\u2018Being an artist, I have been able to just spread my wings, and stepping into the world of fashion now too has been great.<\/p>\n

‘With Hannah Montana, there was the Miley (Cyrus) and the Hannah, and they enabled her to be two different people, and she gave all of us the dream to be a pop star.<\/p>\n

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British pop star Mimi Webb has opened up about how Disney is at the heart of everything she does<\/p>\n

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Mimi, 25, whose real name is Amelia, has released a Disney clothing collection, called The Mouse & The Muse, which has launched in Primark<\/p>\n

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The singer, who won the 2023 Brit Award for Best New Artist, also revealed how recording her new album has been a \u2018therapy session\u2019 and how shooting to fame overnight was \u2018scary\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018I love the two identities she had, and that makes you feel like anything is possible really.<\/p>\n

\u2018And I think for me, my stage name is Mimi Webb, but my real name is Amelia, and I just love that I have been able to play with that identity through my music.\u2019<\/p>\n

Mimi became the first British female artist since Dua Lipa to have two singles make the top 15 of the UK’s Official Singles Chart before putting out an album.<\/p>\n

And the House on Fire hitmaker credits her rise to fame to video-sharing app TikTok.<\/p>\n

The singer – who released her debut album Amelia in 2023 \u2013 shot to viral fame during Covid thanks to videos of her singing in her car.<\/p>\n

She told the Mail: \u2018Three years before COVID, I was already like grafting away in the studio.<\/p>\n

‘TikTok then became a huge thing and that\u2019s when it really did happen for me overnight.<\/p>\n

‘My first gig out of lockdown was in front of 30,000 people, which was just incredible. That doesn\u2019t happen to people.<\/p>\n

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Mimi became the first British female artist since Dua Lipa to have two singles make the top 15 of the UK’s Official Singles Chart before putting out an album. And the House on Fire hitmaker credits her rise to fame to video-sharing app TikTok<\/p>\n

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Mimi also revealed how she is now wanting to get into acting and that she hopes to release her third album by the end of the year<\/p>\n

‘And the advice people kept telling me was \u201cenjoy every moment\u201d and now I really get what people mean, because it\u2019s gone so fast. In a blink of an eye.\u2019<\/p>\n

Mimi also revealed how she is now wanting to get into acting and that she hopes to release her third album by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

\u2018I would love to get into more acting, I did quite a bit as a kid. And I really am just wanting to open myself up to all opportunities.<\/p>\n

\u2018I really am pushing my label to get my new album out by the end of the year. My inspiration behind it to stay true to my roots and always draw on my real-life experiences.<\/p>\n

\u2018The music I am writing now does feel a bit more like a therapy session.<\/p>\n

\u2018It does feel super emotional and just real and raw and I feel like that’s the music that people really like.<\/p>\n

\u2018It’s scary but it’s exciting scary you know it’s kind of being out of your comfort zone but in a good way. I’m really excited to push it push the boundaries in the studio more.\u2019<\/p>\n

Speaking about her new clothing collection, she said: \u2018I really feel like it’s just a 360, just growing up, loving Disney. Every single princess, every single princess there is, I was wearing the outfits. It\u2019s a big pinch me moment. Little Mimi would be very proud.<\/p>\n

\u2018As a child my wardrobe was my happy place, there’s things I bought eight years ago that I still have in my wardrobe that I love to pair with different things.<\/p>\n

\u2018Disney has always had an impact on my music, it\u2019s in a lot of what I do.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British pop star Mimi Webb has opened up about how Disney is at the heart of everything she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,97,7136,96,20634,154945,100142,617,478,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-420197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-dailymail","10":"tag-dua-lipa","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-miley-cyrus","13":"tag-mimi-webb","14":"tag-primark","15":"tag-tiktok","16":"tag-tvshowbiz","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}