Litany

Mental health struggles are rough. They’re messy and unglamorous and isolating and - as Beth Cornell began to realise all-too-well in 2021 - not ideal terrain to be navigating when you’re on the cusp of breakthrough pop stardom.

Crack open a window into Beth’s brain around that time and you’d have found two sides at war with each other. One, the sparkling musician Litany who’d watched early single ‘Bedroom’ rack up tens of millions of streams; who’d recently had national treasure Joe Lycett direct her music video for ‘Uh Huh’ and was trying to push forward with that year’s ‘Adult Movies’ EP. The other, just Beth, heartbroken and locked down in London far away from her Harrogate home, struggling beyond belief but trying desperately not to admit it to herself for fear that everything she’d worked for would come crumbling down.