FAERIE SOIRÉE by Melanie Martinez Song Info
"FAERIE SOIRÉE" is the fourth track on Melanie Martinez's third album, "PORTALS". FAERIE SOIRÉE is about hallucinations and the effects of shrooms, as well as liveliness, rejoice, and family reunion. Martinez explains that from past life regression hypnotherapy books, which the concept for the album PORTALS is derived from, there is a sense of reuniting with familiar souls in the afterlife, which the song suggests with the title and groovy-like feel. The song continues the same alternative electronic dream-pop that Melanie uses throughout the PORTALS album. FAERIE SOIRÉE was originally leaked on November 4th, 2021 and later was performed live a year later by Melanie herself in Lollapalooza, Argentina. In an interview with Apple Music, Melanie revealed: "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."
