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‘Worrying is my hobby’: Shura on overcoming injuries, writer’s block and being dropped twice by her label
The London musician has endured a lot since she emerged as a viral bedroom pop star back in 2014. Now she is channelling those setbacks into a new album that’s ‘devastating, but in a fun way’Recently Shura decided she wanted to fight. Already in what she calls her Muscle Mummy era – partly inspired by the Kristen Stewart-starring, queer bodybuilding thriller Love Lies Bleeding – this buff new mindset involved the singer, songwriter and producer learning jujitsu for the video for World’s Worst Girlfriend, the soft-pop highlight of this month’s excellently titled third album, I Got Too Sad for My Friends.Things didn’t go to plan, however. In her fourth class, coming out of a roll, she felt her knee go pop. One MRI scan later, having feared a more serious ligament tear, she was diagnosed with a knee problem known as Hoffa’s fat pad impingement. It means we’re meeting in a cafe/record shop hybrid a few metres from the west London flat she shares with her girlfriend. She remind...
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