For many years, Molly Moore has seen music as a form of therapy. As the singer/songwriter approaches her pen and paper, she also confronts some of the heaviest thoughts in her brain. It’s an opportunity for her to be real with herself, even if she’s trying to warp the reality around her through a song.
Since Molly has been on a mission to create a form of escapism through art and music, it’s only fitting that her brand new EP is titled Escapism.
“I’ve always felt this comfort to be sort of brutally honest in music,” she says. “To have that space where it’s safe to be me has arguably defined my development and who I’ve become. I’m very grateful for that. I feel like its also allowed me to explore my own process of self-discovery through music.”
Escapism highlights Molly’s journey of falling in love, giving them an exclusive look on how she navigated through it all. She says, “It’s about avoidance, fantasy, acceptance, and being reminded that you have the capacity to feel for another person, even after being heart broken. It’s about intimacy that goes beyond physical touch.”
Here’s some stories on the making of Escapism, told by Molly herself!
Why Escapism?
Simply put, Molly wants to provide listeners with an experience that she’d cherish as a listener too. She spilled, “I’ve seen the impact of other art on me, and when it does that – when other art takes those risks and doesn’t filter things out the way one might be tempted to. It has this ability to literally transform others through it, so that’s something I’m really striving for. I feel like as I’ve grown with my comfort with myself, and I feel more capable to go deeper into more uncomfortable areas as far as lyrics go… and even lyrics, too.”
To Molly, that’s the true definition of art. “There’s really no limitation to that,” she says. There’s just the limit that we perceive and we put on ourselves… as is life.”
Molly’s approach:
“The way I approached this body of work was very much from a fantasy perspective, wanting a reality that I knew couldn’t exist on my own… in the way that I was imagining it. Somehow, I was able to accept that, and I think accepting uncomfortable truths, despite what you yearn for or what you want or what you think is right for your life, is such an important experience I’ve had in my journey. I hope that feeling has been infused into the body of work. That energy of giving yourself the freedom to desire things and yet being okay when they’re not right for you, if other people could get that from this body of work, I would feel so excited!”
“Shy” Supremacy
If an alien randomly showed up to Molly’s door one day begging for a banger it could dance to, she’d without a doubt begin to play “Shy.” “It’s like the fanciest song out of all of them,” she says. “It’s like an introduction into my world.”
She adds, “I have an introduction that I do over the intro of ‘Shy’ in my live show. It’s basically, escapism is the tendency to seek distraction from unpleasant realities, especially by engaging in fantasy. It doesn’t matter how long you try to escape reality, because eventually you realize wherever you go, there you are.”
By the way, Molly LOVES playing “Shy.” As a matter of fact, it’s her favorite song to perform live! She said, “It gets me so hype, it’s the first song on my set right now. I love starting with that intro, and I think it’s a really fun way to introduce myself to people. It’s really high energy, I get to stomp around.”
How Molly’s younger self would likely react to listening to Escapism:
“I think she’d be really proud. The main goal I had when I was young and started to make music was to not give up! I felt like I put all these expectations on myself, and told myself that if I didn’t get signed at 18, I’d stop making music. It was insane, because I wasn’t even 1/6 of the artist that I am today when I was 17 or 18. I think my younger self would be really proud of how far I’ve come, that I’m getting to do what I love on a daily basis, and making the sacrifices to do so.”
Molly’s Favorite Song On Escapism:
“It’s a tie between Vacation and Marco Polo. I felt like some of the melodies in ‘Marco Polo’, specifically the pre-chorus melody, kinda just came to me as part of the project as a whole. It was already there in the ether, and I just pulled it out of the air. Same with ‘Vacation,’ I felt all of those things so deeply. It just came out effortlessly, and those are my favorite kinds of songs to write…. when I feel something so intensely, and it just comes through me as opposed to needing to be formulated consciously.”
Lead your mind to paradise. Listen to “Escapism” below!
