Going viral with all the "nasty things" people have said about her music

But strangely, it has been the best year of her career so far for Horsham-based singer-songwriter Josie Proto who has just released her second EP.

Josie, who has just turned 20, said: “Things are going fantastically. I am so excited. I have had such great opportunities this year.

“I am really sensitive to the fact that everyone has had a really rubbish year, but I have had the best year of my life so far. I am supposed to be doing a gig in May and that probably won’t happen, but it really does feel like onwards and upwards.”

It’s half and half because of/in spite of the lockdowns: “I have been working on my career since I was 14. I have been working towards doing this for a long time so it is an accumulation of hard work, but it just so happened that this year everybody was sitting at home wanting to listen to new music, and TikTok just blew up. Everyone downloaded it out of boredom during lockdown.

“Last year I started releasing music. It was just before lockdown… which was not great timing! I had one release before lockdown, and I haven’t get been able to gig as a recorded artist. I haven’t been able to gig and tell people ‘You can hear my stuff on Spotify!’

“But I had a TikTok viral video. I think it is about 600,000 views now. I just put it on and by the evening it had had about 100,000 views. It was a song called BTec Lily Allen.