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Originally Posted by: stephaniewazhere  Dear Fans, "You've been patiently waiting for me to update you on this new album. I premiered a new single "Dying int he Airwaves" about a month a go and various indications about the album have been floating around. But nothing official has been released from me. But it's nearly here and I'm more than excited to finally announce it. If I could really describe this album in one word...... I would say it’s "psychological".
The approach to this album was quite different from anything I've done before really. And that’s kind of crazy to say, how could that possibly be at this point, right? And it was only different because I didn't want it to be different.
In the whole creation process, I feel like a blind protagonist, who sort of develops a new sense, while strengthening the other ones as well. This is in no shape or form a pop album. This album is not something you can really get into, but more like really get out of. I say that with confidence. It’s not for the fact that I’m becoming anti-pop or that that I’m now trying to not have a commercial album. It’s simply just not a pop album. The idea at first was to create a dance album, but I scrapped it, simply because I changed my mind. I felt that this album is much more than some dance album. It goes way beyond that. I'm not indicating that it's still a dance album. You can dance to a beat, but you cannot dance to this. You have to sit down and think it through.
I didn't go collaborate with big name producers, in fact, I didn't collaborate with anyone. This album is all me. Simply put.
There are sections where you can hear random harp, music boxes and it’s really warp-inspired pieces. I was very heavy on the harp and clavichord. I once had to throw the thing on the floor and break it, if not this whole album was going to be some harp/clavichord session, haha ;)
I used an array of sounds and that I collected with my tape recorder for the production of the album. I've always wanted to create some ambient atmosphere for one of my albums. If I could describe it I could say this.....There are moments where you’re going to feel like everything around you is going in reverse. But that’s when you’re going to fall back into place, because everything is normally going against you and in reverse you’re going to realize that it isn’t. In some moments you’re going to feel like you’re in a garden somewhere feeling the breeze as you're picking up strawberries at night, while some bird comes out of nowhere and sings to you. As cheesy as that sounds, its very serious. In some moments you’re going to feel like you’re skydiving from 12,000 feet in the air into an endless loophole.
The biggest challenge in this album was going inside my head, and portraying exactly what I was thinking. I think that’s the challenge that everyone experiences, period. But this piece of art is complex, because it’s not delusional and you quickly become disgusted by it. So basically my mind is placed under a microscope. My thoughts….. I don’t expect anyone to relate to it. It’s almost like a trip through yourself, through myself.
I had a psychological session with my own self and it took that for me to realize that I’m indeed a crazy ass bitch. And that’s why I love this album. Because it’s not something I created for my catalogue, it’s something I created for my mind. The gift of Life! This is going to be one of the most silent moments in my career, yet the most powerful.
I once woke up in the middle of the night, and I was creating these weird sounds in my head. I didn’t know how I could possibly re-create them and I didn’t want to forget it. I stayed up all night trying to re-create it and I failed. I was so angry with myself, and little things like that tick me to the tomb. I kept trying and trying and finally it came to me. That's when I started to understand my own mind.
These songs can allure you, and you have to be very open-minded about music to really understand and love this album.
But I get a sense of freedom when I listen to it. Which is why I titled it “Free”. My favorite lyric of the album is:
“My thoughts have sicken me, Yet you haven’t done a single thing to me” it’s a lyric about perverseness. The song is "Mind Sickness". But of course, there is much more to the album than just that lyric. But that lyric has stuck with me.
The album releases June 28, 2011. The second single "Bird Flu Sung", will soon be released. Thank you for sticking with me this long, your journey is far from over and things are really just getting started." Stay fierce, stay "FREE",
Love, Stephanie Fierce
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