Alice in Musicland

Talent as well as major spirit is given from the birth. Ambition, desire and dream follow them. Our charming guest – a singer, composer and poet Alice Lizard possesses all these features.

- Alice, after the success of your first album” Like a Lizard” all your fans were waiting for the next one. Which songs entered in Alice in Musicland?

- All of them are very different in character as they reflect my feelings, moods, attitude to life. As every person does, I have days full of events, sometimes they are calm, joyful, full of thoughts, responsible, bright, strict... – all these influence on my work. That is why my songs sound sincere. I am a very positive person, so are my songs, even when I sing about serious problems. Our life is not as complicated as it seems, we ourselves make it too difficult. Actually it is simple: if you want to be strong – just be it, if you want to have a good mood – make it. Smile and you will have a smile in return. It is like a domino effect – when you smile, you give this smile to another person. I don’t remember exactly who said this good phrase: “A smile is a soul’s kiss”. And the world has become better and kinder. I want to give positive emotions to people with my every song.

- Alice, you are a very serious-minded person for your 14-year-old age. You take everything what you see serious, so we are eager to know about the second album’s content. How many songs are there? What are they about?

- There are 13 songs and 4 instrumental pieces. All of them are very different, but I tried to give some philosophical meaning to each of them. For example, the instrumental piece “Catch up the time” was brought out by the phrase from “Alice Through the Looking Glass”: “My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.”

In my opinion, one of the most meaningful songs is “Butterfly in a can”. When I wrote this song, I even wanted to name the album after it. It says that you mustn’t practice self-denial putting boarders around yourself. Don’t be a butterfly that was caught and placed into a can. The first line of the song is like this: humans are not insects, we all want freedom. For sure, what can be more precious in this world? You must live as you feel and stay yourself.

- Why does a person put himself into a can very often?

- Thanks God, that never happened to me, but as far as I know, people do this when they want to change something in themselves and they become very strict to themselves depriving themselves of many things, so their mood is ruined. Other people are put into a so-called-can by their own fears and complexes which they make up. I reckon both the behaviors are bad. In case you limit yourself for your sake, don’t overwork in it.

- How to get out of this “enclosed space”?

- Everyone needs to find his own way, solve the problem, not to give up. As an author of the song I just want to make a person, who listens to my music, get out of a can and live freely.

- They say you finished working on a musical?

- Absolutely right. Now I am writing music scores for leading singers. And then we are going to prepare for the performance.

I won’t reveal the plot for now. Let it be a surprise, in one word: there is some magic, unexpected twists of fate, mysteries which are to be solved by the main characters. Many of them have unique super powers. In short, that is my favorite fantasy.

- Does it mean that you are keen on space theme?

- How could I not be? I try to use everything on maximum in my music. This topic attracts me with its mystery and immensity. I associate the space with some wide possibilities, unsolved enigmas…

- Imagine you were an alien…

- I would be a reptilian. I’ve read something about them and I like them very much. And I’ve liked lizards for all my life.

- Oh yeah, your life is full of action: new albums, new videos, and now the musical…

- And I am also writing a book on the topic of space fantasy, but I won’t tell you about the plot right now. But believe me, it will be exciting to read!

- Alice, what would you wish our readers?

- Believe in kindness and stay kind. Be optimistic and believe in success.