![]() It’s a good reason to be in the studio and try things that don’t feel comfortable because when it does turn out well, I got something out of that. That’s a pretty good reason to be away from home for a while. Are you a good witch or a bad witch, which one are you A good witch or a bad witch, what will you do. And okay, that’s a pretty good reason to do it. And I think there’s an appetite for it, and it feels good to us to do it, and it feels like it has purpose and intent. The kind of music we’re playing, I don’t see anybody else doing that sort of thing. I’ve seen what it feels like when you put out music that didn’t work with that machine, and the record label didn’t promote you. And there’s nobody whispering in my ear saying, “Make a nice hit single,” or “Appeal to this sponsor.” And that’s incredibly freeing. I just want to make the most challenging, best music I can. I’m not worried about charts, I’m not worried about trying to appeal to playlists on radio stations. We’re not making any money from putting albums out, but the other side of that is freedom. Someone asked me “Why are you making albums and touring? Is it for the same reasons you did years ago?” In some ways yes, in some ways no. Because if there’s anything we’ve learned from Danielle Paige’s Dorothy Must Die series, it’s that Good is Wicked, Wicked is Good. But your tough exterior often hides your good intentions. I’m very grateful that I had to go through that. Move over Dorothy, you’re the new baddest bitch in town You’re always at the top of your game and never let anyone hold you back. ![]() I sorted through a lot of s-t that I was carrying around. But many benefits come from it, aside from not being dead. Todrick is dressed as both a good and bad witch with Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man, The Cowardly Lion, twerking guards, the lot It’s a really catch song and the outfits are gorgeous. If it’s to exorcize something out of your system, as unpleasant as it can be, it feels like, even if you don’t find what you wanted to find, you looked, and that’s more than you would have done had you not done it. ![]() And the process of digging is redemptive to me. That next batch of songs, for Pretty Hate Machine, had an honesty to it because it came from a real place. And then I realized the only thing I could speak with authority was something I actually knew about because it came from an honest place versus one of posing. I wrote a few terrible songs because I was trying to be like somebody else. This has been something I stumbled on to when I first started writing music. Basically, I’m asking you for the secret of life.
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