In August 2023, Florence + the Machine frontwoman Florence Welch suffered a catastrophic miscarriage at age 37, shortly after deciding to try for a baby with her boyfriend. “The closest I came to making life was the closest I came to death,” Welch, now 39, told The Guardian in September. “And I felt like I had stepped through this door, and it was just full of women, screaming.”

The experience led to the inception of Everybody Scream, an album full of rage, grief, horror, and musings on what it means to suffer such grief and return to the world as if nothing happened.

Welch got pregnant quickly after ruminating on whether or not to have kids in her 2022 song “King,” in which she fears that becoming a mother could ruin her career. “It was my first experience of even trying to get pregnant

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