Maggie Lindemann
Releasing a debut EP has been a long time coming for alternative singer Maggie Lindemann but with Paranoia , the wait is finally over.
Although Wikipedia might say she'southward best known for her 2022 single Pretty Girl , the metamorphosis that Lindemann has gone through in the five years tells us otherwise. Later realizing pop music isn't exactly for her, choosing to get out the label life behind, and starting her imprint to release music that feels but similar her, it's apparent that Maggie didn't want to just be a vehicle for whatever was trending at the time.
It would exist piece of cake to box her in as one of the many 'net artists' on the ascension, but Maggie is much different. She isn't a cookie-cutter artist following trends. Uncompromising and true to who she is every bit an artist, honesty and vulnerability tend to seethe through her every release, leaning heavily on the alternative music that influenced and shaped her teens. In a world where it feels like alternative music has been steadily fading away, Lindemann is reminding us all of the sheer power backside a girl, her guitar, and some punchy lyrics.
1883 had a chat with Maggie Lindemann most her beginnings in music, the determination to leave her label, and the inspiration behind her Paranoia EP.
Something I always ask young singer/songwriters — what was the exact slap-in-the-confront moment when yous realized y'all needed to pursue music as a career?
I've e'er loved music and I e'er knew even when I was younger that I wanted to exist an entertainer. The thought of going to college and working a normal job… Non for me. Fifty-fifty living in Texas, I didn't think I could piece of work in entertainment at that place. I idea I'd have to get sit in an role all day and detest my task, which couldn't be an option for me. I wanted to act for a while because I didn't recall I could be a singer. I knew pretty immature that I wanted to be in this field, merely it wasn't until I moved to LA and I put out my first song and saw the reaction to information technology, that's when I realized I could do this and people care.
You moved to LA when you lot were young, likewise.
Yeah, at sixteen.
What was that feel like? Your head must've been in a really weird but heady place. The experience must've shaped you in some way.
I feel like it forced me to grow up and learn how to do things on my own. I was dependent on my mom growing upward.
Aren't we all!
Right! I would text her and enquire her to bring things to me when I was in bed because I didn't want to go up! [Laughs] I grew up in Texas and LA feels like a different globe. Information technology was a big shift for me. I was nonetheless in loftier school at the time and I was doing online schooling. I still feel like I'm growing up but also navigating that with being somewhat in the spotlight on social media is hard sometimes.
Do you recollect that feel—moving so young and being away from your family—affected your songwriting in any style?
Yeah, I'd say so. It gave me a new perspective on life at a pretty young age. I'm so different at present than I was at 16.
It's absurd to compare your songs and songwriting from when you were younger to now, though. You lot can pinpoint a shift.
I think and then also!
Throughout 2020, yous released a series of singles. Now we're starting the year with your debut EP, Paranoia , which is your first collection of work. How does it feel to exist releasing a collection of songs that you've written?
Information technology'south really heady. I've been working on this EP for 2 to 3 years now and talking about releasing an EP for fifty-fifty longer. I'thou glad I didn't when I first started talking nigh it because it would sound and feel so different than it's going to be now. I feel like I'm starting fresh. I exercise have singles that are super popular, but I don't have a body of work out that completely represents me. I've been able to do what I want and take this collection of songs that are all me.
How would you say the word Paranoia defines the unabridged EP?
I feel like every vocal on the EP is focused around my brain which is filled with a lot of paranoia. I'grand a paranoid person! [Laughs]
The EP explores quite dark themes; what was it like to somewhat figure your feelings and thoughts out through these tracks?
I utilise my sessions equally therapy. I become in, I have my therapy session, and that's why my music can be a bit more than gloomy than happy. I experience like information technology's difficult for me to write a happy song. I just blurt out everything I'm going through and struggling with and work it out through a song. After, I feel like I can move on later saying what I needed to say.
I loved how different each song was; this EP highlights a lot of different moments and genres — Honey Songs is a stripped-back, actually intimate song, whereas Loner is this big soaring anthem. What was it like to explore these somewhat polar contrary sounds and feelings?
I'k just so all over the place in life! I feel like I accept so many different personalities and interests, so that comes through in the music. I like trying dissimilar things; I didn't want to feel similar I needed to just stick to one thing. My voice does change, too. Sometimes it'due south high, sometimes really deep, some songs I just want to chugalug and others are a lot softer and intimate.
Yous've been leaning more than and more into alternative and stone music over the by year, the beginning of Crash and Burn really reminded me of the power backside songs similar Misery Business concern by Paramore. Does information technology feel similar you're leaning into your audio at present compared to a few years ago?
That'due south exactly what I wanted from the intro of that song!
Really? When I heard information technology I immediately fabricated the connection.
My task is finished then! [Laughs] When I first started I wanted to make alternative, tedious, gloomy music. You lot can hear that in my first few songs before I started doing pop stuff. I began working with a label and it became a scrap more mainstream which, at the fourth dimension, I was down to do because I liked it and wanted to be a large artist. I call back very soon after I released those songs, I realized I didn't want to make that blazon of music. It just isn't for me; I don't dance, I don't know how to movement my body to popular music, it felt awkward.
It'south hard, especially at that age, to choose whether you want to compromise and be huge or try to stick out with what you desire to do.
Yeah, that'due south what information technology felt like. I similar those songs that I put out, they simply don't feel like me anymore. The music I'm making now is the music I listened to in high school and when I moved to LA. That feels like me. There's not a lot of culling punk-pop music that'southward mainstream anymore, which is crazy.
I call back when I was in loftier school and it was huge.
So big! It's kinda died out simply y'all see Car Gun Kelly doing it and Avril is coming back. It's absurd to be able to exist doing this when information technology's slowly starting to come dorsum.
Different explores yous wanting to exist someone else, which is quite a vulnerable thing to admit. Is it ever difficult for you to explore these types of themes?
Not really. I only get nervous the night earlier I release something! I freak out, get embarrassed, and wonder if anyone is going to like information technology. I get embarrassed over everything else.
You spend all this time working on something and thinking it'due south swell and and then the night before you're like— what if this is a weird matter to exist sharing with people?
Yes! Everyone else around me is telling me it's great and and so the moment earlier it's coming out, I think everyone was just gassing me up and lying to me! I don't always really feel too vulnerable because that's just who I am as a person. I'm down to talk near anything with people. I remember information technology's but an aspect of wanting the reception to be good.
What were some of the media you consumed that inspired this record? Scissorhands made me think of Edward Scissorhands, but were there any books or films or other records that inspired yous?
There's a lot of songs that inspired this EP and I have a whole playlist of early 2000s alternative stuff. I'1000 heavily influenced by other artists; when I hear something I'll note information technology down and figure out a way to do our have on it and brand it my own. Like Crash and Burn down was influenced by Paramore.
I liked that it was obvious you lot were inspired by it but you lot made it your own.
When you hear Misery Business organisation , yous know information technology'due south that vocal. You immediately get hyped and there's a crazy energy throughout. That'southward what I wanted to exercise, I wanted to aqueduct that energy.
You're releasing the EP through the distributor Caroline on your label, swixxzaudio. Why did you decide to start your label?
I wanted to be my boss. In music, you lot are your dominate for the most part, but I wanted to accept full creative command and do what I wanted to do on my terms. When I was at my old label, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I was, and however am, very new to music. I feel like now I have a much improve grasp on where I want to go and how I want my music to sound. I know how I want my artwork and music videos to look and even down to like my Instagram—I don't want anyone to touch my Instagram. I have a team that is supportive and downwards to do what I want to do, just if something is bad they will tell me.
That comes across on your social media, too. It feels like you lot're non a cookie-cutter manufactured artist. Artists decades ago were pushed into looking and sounding a certain manner and signing abroad their lives for a record deal. I call back of people like Taylor Swift who didn't realize what she was signing away, and then information technology's great y'all were able to get a jump offset on owning your stuff.
Yep, I demand to exist in accuse of my career and navigate it how I desire to.
Right before your EP, Automobile Gun Kelly's upcoming motion-picture show, Downfalls Loftier , will be dropping and yous have a function in it. Can you lot tell me how that projection came virtually and what made you want to be a part of it?
Information technology'due south a cool film virtually an outcast becoming cool and I was really happy when I was asked to exist a part of information technology! Like I said, I e'er wanted to exist an actor. I've never acted in annihilation before this, so I feel really lucky to be a part of it. I'm the chief girl's best friend and I'one thousand a stereotypical hateful girl and it was really fun to act like a bitch and nifty this kid, even though I don't look much cooler than him!
From what I've seen and the aesthetics of it, it looks amazing. It fits with everyone, from MGK to you to Sydney Sweeney, personal styles and personas.
It's so funny considering I'm supposed to be a preppy daughter and I have no idea how to dress like that. They asked me to wearing apparel as preppy as I could then I showed up in golden jewellery I would not wear and they idea I looked more than punky. [laughs] I looked like I belonged with the outcasts!
When the EP is out, what practise you hope people accept away from it or experience later they are done listening to it?
I always say I promise people experience like they have something to relate to. When I listen to music I just desire to relate to the person singing to me and I want to experience similar I know them better. I hope people experience closer to me and they feel similar they know me amend than they did earlier listening to it. I hope that, if they can relate, they have a connection and feel similar they aren't lone. I want them to know someone else understands.
Maggie Lindemann debut EP, Paranoia, is out at present.
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