Sound and Writting
‘Forgive me’ is the first track of the album and it introduces it with a loud and fast progressive electronic beat mixed with guitar riffs and drums, the track has two verses and two chorus, it is quite short but it sounds epic and it opens the album giving its listeners the right sonority, the rest of the record will be based on which comes to be the electro rock. Magie and her high key toned voice was very well produced in this track, it is accompanied by backing vocals during the choruses while the verses don’t. The theme for the track is undeniably an apology, some fans will take this song as Magie trying to make amends with them after her debut album, if you didn’t know what happened, she released an electropop record last year that wasn’t so truth to her fan base, so perhaps the intentions of starting the album with this track is to hit the fans’ hearts asking them forgiveness the same time Magie is redeeming herself with an ElectroDeath track.
Moving on to the second track of the album is the Dance and Nu Skool Breaks track ‘Existential Crisis’, this unusual track combines a variety of elements from the 90’s such as the drums and the guitar riffs, it also incorporates synth beats and piano with Magie often using backing vocals and adding a raspy tone to her vocals on the verses, it sounds really vintage but it is an incredible follow up to the first track of the album, its talking about an existential crisis the ones that we often have when we literally don’t know what to do and we all can agree that Magie knows what is like feeling lost, she says ‘I’m lost, I am mad, this life has a cost I haven’t paid’ talking about the circumstances of life that took advantage of her self-control, is she in an acid trip? We don’t know exactly, but if she was high during the writing of this track we could totally get along with that.
Coming from an experimental electronic and indie pop background Magie and Sergey ultimately made a dance pop song called ‘I’m gonna be free (I’m gonna be me)’. Even though there’s an aggressive effect on its sound which sounds like an anthem, this the prodigy inspired track opens up with a throbbing electro beat which then builds to the shrill chorus. Magie sounds angelical and naïve comparing the loud and fast-tempo sound of the track, certainly this contrast was intentionally built in a very smart way. Talking about the subject of the lyrics, it couldn’t be any other but a social political criticism of bias, Magie talks about her hard first years of life where she had to handle with bully until the days she decided to be herself no matter what the others think about her. No denial that in the end of the track it sounded just like and anthem.
Keeping the ‘bias’ subject of the previous track comes another critic, but this time a straight forward critic for Media and Press, after all Magie was heavily criticized by her sexual behavior so she had to give those folks an answer, and ‘Apathy’ clearly is an answer to the critics that she judges being unfair with her artistry, the sound now evolving to a more electronic vibe compared to the first three tracks of the record, here in this one we have elements of Future pop taking reference in the industrial music, but it has synth beats and the dance-pop radio friendly elements it needs to be featured in a Magie’s album. What really is impressive up until now is the vintage feeling all of the tracks are giving its listeners, there’s no doubt that the album so far was made to the die-hard fans of Magie and specially the fans who absolutely love her past.
As the album lyrically speaking progressively grows into other themes, now Magie has a track called ‘Try the lucky’ on her own words she says: ‘It is time to relieve, Time to let the lucky (come in), Put myself at its mercy, Stop the logic and try the lucky’ in the catchy choruses of the track, certainly for someone who’s always showed itself to be rational and mentalist, this track sounds like a relief for her, she is saying that after so many time she’s learning to listen of her heart’s desire other than just think pragmatically as she was always pictured of doing so. This track continues the previous track ‘Apathy’ sound, they are connect with each other, so they have similar structure and similar beats as well, but the second one is a little more pop driven than the previous one.
It seems that after having a bunch of tracks which were talking about herself, Magie decided to write songs about other subject that doesn’t talk about herself only, but opens to reach others surrounding her. ‘You and I’ is a break up song, Magie is screaming the lines ‘You and I, finite’ saying that it’s over and on the verses of the track she explains that they were not in the same tune, it might be very different lyrically speaking comparing it to the first five tracks of the album, but the sound is still progressing. We have another dance-pop based track but clearly influenced by industrial music and 90’s break beats, its fast and melodically, Magie has an incredible vocal performance here.
The dictionary says that Outcome is an end result, a consequence. The sixth track shifts the album soundings to the slower and mid-tempo tracks Magie worked on with Sergey. This piano driven track receives a variety of influences that goes from synth pop, industrial and ambient sounds, it is creepy and emotional. Magie’s vocals is another standout, it was released as the second single of the album despite it did not rotate on radios, but it did entered the top three on digital charts. Magie is talking about an abusive relationship and the coming to terms of its ending, even though the main character of the track is the person whose feeling hurt, she makes analogies on the track about a bridge that is about to burst as it would be her outcome after the end of that relationship. It’s a very unusual track, but incredibly well produced.
‘Ask My love’ is an electro rock and pop metal track, Magie is ending the album is amore rock and roll vibe and this one is the most influenced rock track of the whole album. It starts out with an electric guitar riffs but it adds a dance pop drum sequence to it as Magie starts the first verse making it sound danceable, there’s also other elements such as piano, keyboard and synth beats, Magie also delivered a more melodic and strong vocal performance here. The lyrics are about a date on a dancefloor, it’s also generic compared to the other tracks of the album, but certainly it’s worth the listen, it probably will make you dance, because it is very danceable.
The first single of the album ‘Calling Your Name’ has two versions on this record, the first being the regular version which makes makes the standard set list of the album and the second album being added as a bonus track, so for the first track there’s the electro rock influenced one, with ambient sounds, guitar riffs and appealing vocals, the bonus one is the electropop influenced one with dance beats and robotic voice, the single was released as an EP and it reached the top three on both digital and airplay charts, both lyrics tell a story of overcoming a bad situation, it describes the sensation of being inside of a whirlwind of bad feelings and how suffocating the hurt can be for living. Magie suffered of depression a while back when her first fiancé died tragically in a car accident, subjects of being stuck and in issues with its own mind has always been on her songwriting. The choruses of the track work as the salvation mantra she needed to overcome the situation she was in, it is repeated twice at the end.
Reaching the end of the track comes the most inspirational track of the whole album, ‘I’ll always be here waiting’ brings elements of trip hop and ambient music with oriental instrumentation and hopeful vocals, Magie is being inspired by her religion, we all know that she’s a wiccan and in this track she’s talking with the stars and dreaming of being on the other side with someone she loved so much, perhaps is her dad, the track sounds relaxing and comfortable, Magie has a raspy tone to her voice, the second time she does it on the album, certainly this track is the more spiritual side of Magie’s personality.
For the remaining two other bonus tracks we have electronica ‘The Eye of the hurricane’ and its Portuguese counterpart and the progressive House ‘Bring me Reality’ one of them made for the heartbroken people and the other made for the clubs, the only track that has some influence of Magie’s debut album. It is unusual to listen Magie sing on her native country language, but it sounds re ally cool when she sings it in English, the instrumentation of ‘The eye of the hurricane’ is extraordinary well produced, progressively adding elements to its sounds letting Magie set the melodic aspects of it with her vocals. ‘Bring me Reality’ is generic in some aspects, there’s a breakdown and a house influence, it serves well as a bonus track.
‘Outcome’ sounds way more coherent than the massy debut album ‘Remember me’, Magie is really back to the field she know really well.
Thank You
First I want to thank my Family and the Goddess for Always being the source of power I need to keep going. Then I have to thank FREEDOM for keeping me on their roster after so many downs we had in the past release, for believing in my talent I thank you guys and specially Naveah.
Well the few people who worked with me on this project, Sergey Galoyan for taking the plane to LA, it was a pleasure to re encounter you. Lilly Stuart my best friend, you have to be here otherwise I couldn’t make it by myself. ElectroDeath team: my manager Marcos and Electrolightz.
The fans, I always say this, you are the reason for all of this and if I’m still here is because you allow me to live this dream, so for you I own my dream, I love you all.
Edited by user 11 March 2015 00:42:00(UTC)
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