In writing his debut album mood swings , 21-year-old British singer-songwriter Henry Moodie learnt a lot about himself. “It’s almost made me understand myself on a deeper level,” he tells PinkNews. “It really is the truest form of me as a songwriter.”

Moodie has had some practice. He started songwriting at school, in Surrey, as a means of “therapy” to get himself through some fairly horrendous bullying. “It was my way of processing everything,” he says now.

Then, three years ago aged just 18, and with a little help from TikTok , Moodie reaped the rewards of his trauma scribbles: his debut song, “you were there for me”, smashed through the realms of social media and into mainstream consciousness.

It became his first UK top 40 hit , has amassed more than 120million streams on Spotify, and

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