Confessions

Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2025

Mimi Webb

Mimi Webb’s Confessions is packed with self-assured pop goodness, but the singer-songwriter had so many doubts about it she abandoned her initial ideas. “The first version of the album was completely scrapped,” Webb tells Apple Music Radio. “I wrote it about a year and a half ago and I just freaked out and felt so uninspired. I was like, ‘I can’t sing these bloody songs for the next two years on tour. There’s just no way.’ Even though I had so much love for them, it wasn’t touching the surface for me, it wasn’t deep enough for what I was going through in my day-to-day life.”

Webb admits starting again on the follow-up to 2023’s Amelia was a challenge, but it’s one that left her “very happy.” And putting in that extra shift paid off, with 12 songs that show the emotional range of mid-twenties life. Webb shot to fame in the early 2020s with the Charli D’Amelio-endorsed “Before I Go,” and Confessions finds her diving deeper. Beneath the glossy Y2K R&B of “Kiss My Neck” lies hidden heartbreak, and she offers a tender acceptance of her parents’ split after 30 years of marriage on “You Don’t Look at Me the Same.”

One of Webb’s favorite tracks on the album is “Mind Reader,” with Meghan Trainor. “We went to her house and we were vibing the whole time writing that one,” she says. There’s also the standout “Love Language,” a tight three minutes of sophisticated pop that sees Webb examining what she wants from a partner. “It changes a lot with age,” she says. “When I was 21, it was gift giving and then as I got older, it’s all acts of service for me, just being a few steps ahead and helping me. If I’m rushing home from work, I’d love a bit of dinner on the table.”

There was just one more element of uncertainty once Confessions was finished: the title. “I had no idea what I was going to call this album and I was back and forth,” she says. “There’s a lot of positive and a lot of negative in it, and I think that is the story of life. For me, it was about being able to break the fourth wall on this album and dive a lot deeper than the surface levels. It’s about the whole experience of unexpected turns—you never really know what’s around the corner.”