After finishing EP “Paranoia,” Maggie Lindemann did not wait a second to make a new album, which was eventually the birth of “SUCKERPUNCH.” She shared that she was going through a lot at the time and making music was a way to cope.
“I started writing the album (SUCKERPUNCH) shortly after I finished ‘Paranoia,’” Maggie said. “I just wrote about different things I was going through in life and I was just going through it and I needed to write an album about it.”
The 24-year-old artist confirmed that there were 30 songs initially made for SUCKERPUNCH, but chose to narrow it down to 15 based on creative choices.
Asked on how her selection process was, Maggie said she based the songs on how relevant it is to the theme and title of the album.
“So when I say I have 30 songs, it’s like I wrote 30 songs for it, but some were absolutely terrible and the ones that I ended up picking were the ones that just felt cohesive,” she said.
Maggie added, “I also base on the title of my album, like that’s how I picked a lot of the songs because I really wanted the album title to make sense with the songs so when you listen to it you’re like ‘Oh that’s on the sucker punch, that’s the punch, that’s the blow.’”
The final product of SUCKERPUNCH consists of 15 songs, including collaborations with her close friend Siiickbrain and Sleeping with Sirens lead vocalist Kellin Quinn.
“Siiickbrain is literally my best friend in real life so I always love working with her. I’ve done a couple of other songs with her on her projects,” Maggie said. “I love her.”
In terms of working with Kellin Quinn, she described the experience as a “dream come true.”
She shared, “He’s one of my idols ever since I was in middle school and he’s always been an inspiration to me so working with him was just insane and like a dream come true so yeah it was really really cool.”
The big punch
Reflecting on SUCKERPUNCH, Maggie said, “You can expect that it sounds heavier. There’s some pop songs, there’s some rock songs, there’s some pop punk, there’s some metal […] There’s a lot of different things to expect but you can expect happy, sad, angry, obsessed—all these different emotions.”
With her eclectic album, she shared that her favorite among the 15 songs is “self sabotage” and “she knows it.”
Indeed, SUCKERPUNCH lived up to its title as its songs give a certain blow that encapsulates the emotions Maggie was trying to express. But Maggie shared that the album name was actually based on a film of the same name, 2011 Action/Fantasy “Sucker Punch.”
She said, “‘Sucker punch’ is the definition of a series of blows or punches and I felt like at that time I was going through so much and going through all these things emotionally, and I watched the movie ‘Sucker Punch’ and I was like ‘Oh my God, I love that title’ and I looked at the meaning and said ‘That’s perfect’ and all just kinda clicked.”
SUCKERPUNCH is available on all music streaming platforms.