Maddie Mae

The newest artist for Elefant Records is an old friend, even though she is only 23 years old. The thing is, Maddie began her musical career singing the earliest THE YEARNING songs when she was only 14 years old. Since then, she began her musical journey along with Joe Moore, with whom she has released many albums and visited half the globe, from Spain to Japan.

Joe Moore has collaborated with different singers throughout his diverse productions and with his most special project, THE YEARNING, and his imminent new album (it’s almost finished now) has brought about a new twist, more focused on the music of the seventies and disco, somewhere between ABBA and Donna Summer. This led to the search for a new singer (we will introduce you to Luci very soon) and created a new opportunity for Maddie to take on her own project. Here at Elefant Records, we have always been fans of her silky, versatile voice, and we believe that this is the perfect moment for that young girl we watched grow up musically to begin her own career, with a sound closer to her own generation and inspired by the many strong, talented, powerful women in music today: Ariana, Lizzo,Billie Eilish, Lorde and Miley Cyrus are just a few of the references she mentions.
 

So, with help in the song-writing and production from Joe Moore (don’t think he was out of the picture), but with Maddie much more involved in the project’s definition, and writing the lyrics, we present to you the first song by Maddie, which we know will seduce so many people. “Baby, You’re My Angel” is a song of the times, with deep basses, broken rhythms and a fragile voice in a state of grace. The chorus is absorbing, the sound is hypnotic, and the feeling is that of being immediately caught.

Daniel Cuenca filmed the video in Iceland, which serves as the perfect landscape to illustrate this first song: the contrast between the cold scenery and volcanic vapor, ice and fire, maximum intensity. What more can we say? You have to listen and enjoy it. Ladies and gentlemen – Maddie Mae.

2023

04/07/2023
MADDIE MAE "Polaroid Love" Single Digital

After “Baby, You’re An Angel” and “Stay The Same” we hadn’t had any more news about the solo album that Maddie Mae, after her journey with THE YEARNING, had started working on with, of course, her inseparable Joe Moore. And today we bring you two big pieces of great news: the album, “Wildflower”, will be here imminently, and as an advance, we are bringing you the third single, “Polaroid Love”. On this song, we can see the influence of Lana Del Rey and her melancholic landscapes where she talks about that love that slowly takes shape, that is cooked over a low flame, the same way colors start to come in on a Polaroid. She explains it perfectly herself: “I always take photos using my Polaroid camera, and when the picture comes out blank at first, nobody knows how it will turn out; you have to be patient enough to wait. Seeing that Polaroid develop from almost nothing, just ink under the film, echoed how I was feeling at the time with this new romance forming right under my skin. When I finally sat down to write, it was so clear that the lyrics came to me in just fifteen minutes. I recorded the first draft and sent it over to Joe to ask him to produce some music to go with it and, as he always does, he understood the essence the song should capture perfectly”. Exciting and heartbreaking, this is a song that, together with its two predecessors, makes us foresee that “Wildflower” is going to be huge.

14/07/2023
MADDIE MAE "Wildflower" Album

Our star has taken inspiration from all forms of art, from poetry to dance, including music, books, and movies that she has discovered over these past three years. And the palette of styles is so wide it moves between the Amy Winehouse-style soul of “Black Liquorice”, the disco spirit of “Day Dreaming” and the R’n’B style of Carly Rae Jepsen on “Stay The Same”, or that Beyoncé’s touch of trap on “Medusa”. We can hear Lana Del Rey and her melancholic landscapes of “Used To” and “Cool Like You”, the pop excitement that Miley Cyrus has on “Lose You” and Lorde’s ability to create cathartic environments like on “Sunshine”. All of these references (we could name so many more) just give us a general idea of the way Maddie has given shape to an album that places her at their level, because her voice has the personality and versatility to compose a handful of marvelous songs, the kind that break hearts and work you up to the point of tears.