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In “FAERIE SOIRÉE” Melanie Martinez is on a mushroom trip–trying to stay away from the hallucinations around them, and in the end she gives herself in, to escape.

The song continues the same alternative electronic dream-pop that Melanie uses throughout the PORTALS album. Additionally, it’s the fourth track on the album.

A demo of “FAERIE SOIRÉE” was originally leaked on November 4th, 2022. The song was performed live a year later by Melanie herself in Lollapalooza, Argentina.

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What did Melanie Martinez say about "FAERIE SOIRÉE"?
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There were many days I sat in the portal room wanting to create outside of my own perspective. I asked Jeff Levin (my A&R) to send me as many folders as possible of instrumental tracks created by different producers. After searching through the folders for a while, there was one track labelled ‘Respect Vol 1’ by this producer named Hoskins that struck me. It was an infectious drum groove over a guitar top line. I wrote the song very quickly.

—via Apple Music

What have the artists said about the song?
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‘Faerie Soiree’ is a really fun song, so one day I was in this room that I called the ‘portal room’ in my old house, there was a lot of ghost activity in this room I would hear random 1920s music playing from that room and I had a lot of like old antiques in that room, so I think that’s where the energy was coming from but one day I essentially was just looking through a bunch of tracks at this time. I was like kind of feeling I wanted to step outside of me creating something on guitar or just producing something myself and just seeing what tracks existed that my NR had sent me from just different producers who are sending over stuff, and there’s this one track, it was called ‘Respect Volume 1’ that’s what it was labelled as and it was just a drum groove and this little guitar line and it was so catchy and mesmerizing for me, it just made me want to dance and I just felt like it was really supposed to be for a song that felt like a homecoming, which is also one of those changes in the afterlife based off past-life regression therapy that people talked about under hypnosis, it’s like you’re having a homecoming with your soul family, people that you’ve travelled many many lifetimes with and you finally get to basically have a reunion with them so I wanted to feel like a party with a bunch of spirit-fae creatures just having a good time and so that’s basically where the song came from.

—via YouTube

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