“I’ve never been worse, thanks for asking,” Shorr sings on the album’s opening line.

In a home where religion was “kind of a replacement” for psychology and therapy, she was sent to a pastor to address her anorexia, someone “who has no qualification in talking to a teenage girl about how she’s not eating cos she’s trying to maintain control over her world and she doesn’t have any”, Shorr recalls.

Shorr joined Song Suffragettes, a female songwriters’ collective countering the industry’s gender disparity.

For a while, Shorr smoothed down her edges to try to get playlisted on country radio.

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