Maggie Lindemann
- Presented/Guest
- with Kailee Morgue
- Date
- Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Description
Building on the sharpened songwriting and singularly honed-in sounds she’d established on PARANOIA, Maggie spent a year building the foundation of her debut studio album, SUCKERPUNCH, a body of work that chronicles a journey of self-discovery and actualization. “It's the journey from being upset to being angry to being hopeful – a hopefulness I want listeners to know exists for them, too,” she says. It’s also the rare narrative record that’s songs also stand as strongly alone as they do in sequenced order. “I was still in the PARANOIA headspace, and I didn’t want to leave it, but as we made these songs, you can hear me growing and going deeper than I ever have before,” Maggie notes. “Even if some of the melodies changed or production elements took new form, a lot of SUCKERPUNCH is as we originally wrote and intended it – songs that showcase the new version of who I’ve always wanted to be.”
The album name, she says, came to her soon after. “It’s an unexpected punch, a blow you didn’t see coming,” she says. “When I was making this, I had those blows in my own life; when I listened to the album back from start to finish, I realized the entire thing was a sucker punch – for myself, for my fans – and I knew it had to be the title.”
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Kailee Morgue
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Unveiling her long awaited debut album ‘Girl Next Door’, Arizona native Kailee Morgue brings back all the nostalgia and bite of the 90s and 2000s pop icons she idolized as a child. Morgue talks about girlhood and healing her “inner teenager” on her project that ranges from glittery hyper-femme acoustic tracks to gritty pop-rock anthems. The singer/songwriter uses her quick witted tongue-in-cheek edge to candidly give listeners a look into her life and the emotions she often feels at breakneck speed. With the first few singles including “End of My Life”, the visuals showcase her love for horror as she takes on the role of a final girl in a thrilling 2 minute slasher film. The 12 track album displays the versatility and growth of the songstress since her debut EP “Medusa” with a bold shift from the clean pop sounds she started with. The album title, Morgue says, was another way of poking fun. “I thought people might not understand the title if they took it at surface level but that’s kind of the whole point, I don’t take myself too seriously. There’s something funny about putting on the face of the girl next door when underneath it is something so messy and destructible. I went full Buffy the vampire slayer with the cover art so I wouldn’t have to explain it” ‘Girl Next Door’ allows us to see the person behind the lyrics vulnerable as ever as she carves her place in the pop sphere with unapologetic ease.
