Electrodeath was formed five year ago, when three Brazilian girls traveled to USA to try the "American Dream", in that time the band didn't have a name at all, but it did have a sound. "From the Ashes" was the first EP released by the group and immediately reached top 10 on USA dance club charts and top 5 on dancer charts around Europe, that was just the first material of an amazing climbing to success the band has made 'till today, with more than 16 million records and 20 million singles sold, they have collected a lot of fans all over the globe. Magie, with her unique voice, Yulia with her incredible style and Lilly with her amazing ideas. these three girls made their debut worldwide tour with the "Loves Me Not Tour" which supported their debut album, also a "reloaded" set list for that tour were made to support the same "reloaded" album they had release, this tour was one of the highest grossing tour of that year, with over 90 concerts around 67 cities in 3 continents. Their second studio album was their biggest release 'till the date, alone this album sold more than 4, 5 million records, with all of its four singles being certified platinum! again a tour was scheduled to promote this record, but a problem that one of the girls were passing through made unfortunately the cancelation of the tour, right in the middle. And finally after a year without announcements Magie the main vocalist and the person, who was damaged, came in public to talk about.
This interview was recorded on Magie's House...
There weren't any edited material...
Everything filmed in two hour of conversation is here...
This is the truth...
Magie for Electrodeath!
A man took the camera on hands and filmed his own face as an introduction to the interview.
Man: Hi, I am Mark, I work for People magazine, but what we are going to do right now is something very different from what we usually do. This interview will be filmed in two hours, there's only Magi and me here. And she will answer everything that I will ask her, with no struggles or compliments. So this is it. Are you ready Magie?
He filmed Magie's face, she is still with red hair, her skin so white and clear, her eyes so green, but she is not happy definitely, she seems to be crying for some time, her eyes are swollen, and her face transmits sadness, she speaks with a soft voice so known as her mark, she has a kindly and beautiful voice, with a deep depression tune.
Magie: Ready? Am I ready? After these months I don't really know!
Now Mark puts the camera in a position to film only Magie's face, the audience can only hear his voice, they cannot see him anymore, now we only can see Magie's face, also her shirt, it is a regular black shirt and her hair is on her shoulders.
Mark: Why did you decide to film this?
Magie: because I think that an interview for a magazine would not capture my state of heart. I want my fans to know how hard those months to me were.
Mark: so Magie, what really happen? To you? In that night on the concert.
Magie: that was just the edge, of a depression I got under some months early the start of the tour. You know there isn't anything with the music industry, or contracts of stuffs like that, it is about me, I was a sad person since the beginning of my life, well I think I'm still a sad person right now, but a strong one, well in that incident I took too much tranquilizers to stay calm, and I didn't have eat the whole day, so in the night I had to sing and I was so weak that my body fainted.
Mark: How much time do you spend on Hospital?
Magie: on Hospital three days, on rehab four months, humm (sarcastic sniff) I guess life is a rehab, but anyway...
Mark: you sad sometime that music is a rehab, why didn't you cure yourself with music?
Magie: You don't know when things are going to happen with you, so it was easy for me to say in a good moment of my life that music was my rehab, but when I felt devastated, lonely and broken, I had nowhere to go, I just couldn't sing anymore, even singing being the thing that I most love in life, but I had no strength for that, and I watched myself die slowly. It was hard man... really hard... (Brief stop to recover emotions)
Magie is still sad, and people can see it, but there is something inside her that still wants to fight, when she felt ready again Mark asked...
Mark: when did you start to feel like this?
Magie: it all started when I met a guy, his name was Thom, he was the director of our first video "white Robe" we felt in love, and we had a great time together I wrote a song for him "Lost In this Dance", and we were like true lovers, living a fairy tale, he was gentle, kind, generous, and he loved very much, so did I, we spend two year dating and when I was promoting our second album "At Night" he had to traveled to Europe, I was on California that time, he traveled to Amsterdam to shoot his debut movie, and an accident happened, his airplane crashed in a mountain due to a mechanical issue. I was promoting our album, we were releasing our third single, and we were about to announce a huge tor which would reach the whole world. When I received the news I was devastated, the man that I loved, the man that I choose to live with me, was dead? I though how life could be so cruel with me? Well we had contracts to fulfill, we had a tour to start, an album to promote, I should go on, and I kept that with me.
Mark: You had to fake an emotional state to your fans.
Magie: Yes, because of the massage of the album, which was "having fun in the night", the only moment I cried live on stage was in the tribute concert for Miss Vanity, I cried for the occasion and also because I was broken. so after these incident with my ex boyfriend, I stayed straight, not so strong, but I could handle that, I started to took some medicines to control humor and emotions, it was fine because they helped me handle that sadness, my girls helped a lot, and I think back now, how lucky I am for having them with me, they are the best friends a girls could ask for. Two weeks after my boyfriend’s funeral, I was at home and an old friend of mine played a visit to me, we were resting to start the tour, he was so gentle to me, and I was so sad and lonely, that we had sex!
Mark: he knew you ex boyfriend?
Magie: yes, he was his friend too, I felt worse in the beginning, but then somehow that helped me forget a bit my ex boyfriend, so I kind started date this boy, we spend three weeks together 'till he leaves and let me alone, but he not only left me alone, he took a big part f my money too, he was a jerk, he made me felt in love with him, in a fragile state that I was and he took my money, he made fight against my girls on the band, saying that I wanted a solo career, he made me took more medicines that I was taking, because he felt that I was sick, but I wasn't, and again I was alone, broken, left behind, I remember how could I be so stupid to let this jerk enter my life and steal my money, steal my dignity... that was when I realize that when we are fragile, we are vulnerable to bad people.
Mark: then the tour started, and you had to do it, because after all you lost a lot of money. Is that right?
Magie: Yes that's right, I needed to do that tour, but I was so sad, that the only way for me to handle those concerts was drinking, I started to be drunk, every day I woke up and I started to drunk in the morning 'till the afternoon, with the medicines I was taking, that was my ending.
Mark: the girl, the manager, your friends? Didn’t help you?
Magie: Of course they did, but I didn't want help! Lilly paid a lot of my bills, Yulia invited me to live with her family in the farm, my manager asked me if I wanted to cancel the tour, But I was not myself, I was drunk all the time, I was sedated all the time, if I didn't take those medicines I was able to kill myself... (Deep Breath)
Mark: How many times did you try to kill yourself?
Magie: three, the first was right after I found that Thom was dead, I tried to poison myself, but I was not "brave" enough, the second was after my second boyfriend left me, in one night I drove my car like a crazy chick to Las Vegas, and I did everything a person can do there, drugs, sex, end in the end of night I was so out of control that I tried to crash my car against a wall! The third was in the night that I fainted on stage in London.
Mark: so after that night, what made you realize that you needed help?
Magie: My mom, my friends, my fans, people started to send me messages from all over the world, I was in the hospital one night, the second night, to be exactly, I started to think about everything I made to be famous, all the hard work me and my girls made to reach the mainstream, that I felt I was kind of selfish, that was when I realize that we feel bad, because we think only in ourselves, when you start to think in your partner, in your friend, in other people, you'll find the happiness, but first I had to pay for the acts I made, for the drugs I used, for the sadness I had handle all that time.
Mark: You enter Rehab.
Magie: yes, and that was the hardest part, stay clean, face the facts, face the truth, the first month was only Detoxification, I woke up every night feeling sick, my stomach hurts a lot, my body needed that drugs, needed the alcohol, I was addicted, and I didn't know, in this part of the treatment we cannot receive visits, that was the hardest part for me, and the moments I missed so much my two best friends, my mom, and my manager, they always supported me, and I didn't know about that. I never said I love you for my mom, and I wanted to say, but I couldn't because of the treatment.
Mark: when you had to face the fact that you lost you love?
Magie: (tears roll from her eyes) I'm crying because I really loved him a lot, but now I know that he is a better place now, after the detoxification, I passed the hard moments a girls can pass through, I remembered everyday his face, his touch, I wanted him so much, but he could come to visit me. He was dead! in this part Music helped me a lot, I found that I could make him live forever in music, so I started to wrote songs, and the girls came and we talked a lot about those songs, now I can sing him, I can record him in my heart (she starts to cry), and this is beautiful, we will always be together!
The interview takes another break to Magie recover herself.
Magie: for two months I wrote, songs about him, those are so personal to me, that we only will record three of them to put on the album. when I was clean, when I felt ready to move on without Thom, I started to ask myself a lot of things, I was still on the treatment, I passed four months on rehab, so I started to write songs about those hard moments I passed through because I wanted to find people who passed by the same I did, and maybe help them.
Mark: what about your label?
Magie: I'm very happy to say that Malory is a human being, she is not a business robot, that wants to make money, she is human, she said to us that we could take the time we wanted to take, she released our remix album to help me up with finances, so she is a great business woman, I can not only thank her, but give to her label THE BEST ALBUM ElectroDetah ever made.
Mark: and now Magie, how do you feel now...
Magie: I feel ok, I'm not cured, because this is not a disease, but I've grown up a lot this year, I'm a very old person now, I will keep myself close to some things, and open for others, my heart is broken, and 'till I find someone to fix it, I will be gluing the pieces back on.
Mark: do you feel ready to face your fans again? To put yourself on the spotlight again?
Magie: Yes, my fans were one of the reasons I'm here, alive, I want to show them all the love they showed me when I was down, and the best way I can make it is singing.
Magie finished the interview hugging Marks, who took the camera and turn it off.
IN MEMOIR OF THOM RODRIGUES "WE WILL ALWAYS BE TOGETHER"
ElectroDetah will be releasing teh First single from their upcoming Album the single entitled "Famou$" will be out January 8th