Reflection (album)

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Reflection is an album by Rät/Rochelle and was produced under Crayongular Records by Sofía Garcia and Rät themselves. It's their first album to be released. All the songs have music videos just like their previous EP 'Boxed In'. The music videos were directed mostly by Rochelle but some music videos were directed by Sylvie Moulin. Rät created the idea for the sets and Dimitri Popov helped them come to life through CR's funding. The costumes were designed by Dinara Popov. The promotional single is Blender and was the first song to be teased on Rochelle's Instagram story. They uploaded two 20 second snippets from the demo version on the last few weeks of 2020. Rochelle explained the meanings of the songs on March 2021 in an interview.

## Tracklist

### Track nine

Curiouser & Curiouser

Sana Aşığım- "Sana Aşığım is Turkish for 'I'm in love with you.' I have a friend who is Turkish and that's one of the first things they taught me how to say cause I was interested in their first language. Um, the whole album is about Rät's reflection when they're in the state between death and life, in the grave. They reflect on their past decisions. The song is a reflection of Rät's continuation of obsession for Ace even after being hurt countless times. They realise their still in love with him even after all that happend."

Tōhoku Region- "Tōhoku Region is also about Rät's love for Ace. The name is based on the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that happened in 2011. The song relates Rät's love for Ace, their relationship, with an earthquake and a tsunami. Chaotic and destructive in the end...(laughs) not very good to be honest."

Critique- "Critique is about self-critiquing, looking back and self-criticising your past actions. Rät does that alot during this album...it's very hard not to after something big like that happens ending in a coma-like state. Rät is very uneasy and isn't sure if their going to continue to live, if they're even living at the moment, if their dead...their very unsure of what's happening which leads them to feel like all they've done lead to their coma-like state. It's kinda like sleep paralysis as well...sleep paralysis is probably a better way to describe it compared to 'a coma-like state.' (laughs) Like, Rät can still feel their body, gravity's effects, they can still see things, they can still think and feel emotions they just can't move. Their stuck in a state which causes them to rely on self-reflection to entertain them."

Papercuts- "Papercuts is about Rät's self-hatred, their evolution during their paralyzed state and them trying to move on. It reflects the story of Rät eventually moving on from their obsession of over self-reflection. Rät evolves and reforms during their paralyzed state."

Blender- "Blender is about bulimia and the effects of it. There's not much else to it. Rät used to have major bulimia before their paralysation. It talks about Rät's reflection on that issue that had. Their not even sure if they still have it since it's almost like they have been paused while the world is moving around them, without them."

Eggs & Bacon- "Eggs & Bacon surprisingly isn't about food or anything related to it. (laughs) It's about toxic friendships and fake friends. Which is another of Rät's reflection stages. This one is quite personal to me as well as Blender. I used to have friends with similar occuring issues within relationships. The song is about trying not to get too attached to your friends just in case they abandon you. Like Rät I also have major trust issues with friends, other relationships and with people in general."

Jinxed- "Jinxed is about bad luck especially the bad luck Rät has gone through and the bad luck of Rät getting stuck in a paralyzed state. There's not much else to the song. The majority of the song is the musical melody created with harp, violin, xylophone and many other cool instruments I haven't used a lot of in my songs before."

Curiouser & Curiouser- "Curiouser & Curiouser is centered around the dangers of being curious which, in this case is Rät eventually getting caught up in a paralyzed state. The music video and title was highly inspired by Alice in Wonderland and some of the other aspects in other music videos for this album were also inspired by it. I put a lot of hidden aspects, easter eggs, in the music videos...to see if people could find them. This song is the most inspired by Alice and her story. It's also the last song of Rät's paralyzation. In the end, Rät wakes up, sits up quickly and gasps, heavily breathing before the screen goes black...the next part of the story is going to be included in my next album. I plan to do a lot with that album."

Rät said some more about the next album in another interview in April that year. "I have it all planned out. The whole plot, storyline, characters. Everything is ready...I just have to create and record. I've had this idea lurking in the back of my mind for quite some time now...years even. It's going to be amazing...I can sense it."

Rochelle uploaded a picture of her new look to Instagram early 2022 to get fans hyped for the upcoming album. Also revealing in a story that the album was hopefully going to be made into a film.