'This Tour Has Been Very Emotional': Maggie Lindemann Nails The Sad Girl Aesthetic With 'I Feel Everything'

Jess Martyn

Ahead of her forthcoming tour across Australia, Maggie Lindemann revisits her early days and details how they inspired her present-day performances and music.

Maggie Lindemann(Credit: Courtesy of Maggie Lindemann)

Maggie Lindemann

It goes without saying that any 27-year-old singer who gets to go on a headline tour and play her self-proclaimed sad girl songs to hordes of fans in some of Australia’s favourite venues should be on top of the world – and right now, Maggie Lindemann is loving the peak.

Since releasing her second studio album, I Feel Everything, in October 2025, Lindemann has been busy on tour sharing the heartfelt tracks with audiences across the globe, and she couldn’t be more excited to touch down in Australia.

Comprising a string of rock tracks, including Lindemann’s favourites titled Lost Cause, I Feel Everything, and Mourning, the album is nothing if not an exploration of the Gen Z psyche and the nostalgic experience of facing life in all of its pain and joy.

While songs like Lost Cause felt like an instant click, Lindemann will be the first to tell you that the sad songs like Mourning really have her heart.

“I love singing Mourning every night, I feel like it’s such a relatable song,” she says, appealing to the inner Sad Girl that lives within so many of her listeners, and the catharsis of turning trauma into art. As a therapeutic process at the individual level, Lindemann admits that it opens up a host of new experiences during co-writing sessions.

“Sometimes the first session is super awkward if I've never met a co-writer before – like, ‘Let me just trauma dump on you’. I don't get deep with newer people because I just feel awkward, but when I'm with people that I always write with, I'm down to talk about literally anything. It's weird, because making music is literally like diary entries that you're putting out to the world.”

If an album is a diary entry, working with a misaligned co-writer is a bad date – or an introspective university group assignment, if that’s what you’re into. Fortunately, Lindemann has plenty of experience converting strangers into fans, having done so many times in her career as a supporting artist before taking to the main stages.

“The up-and-coming period in my career was hard, of course. I would struggle with opening for people, because obviously, the crowd is not there for me.

“Later, when I started headlining, I had people come to my meet and greets saying, “I saw you for the first time when you opened for this person”, or “I came to a festival and saw you because I was waiting for the person after you”, and now they're at my show – so I think you just literally have to win people over.”

A track that won Lindemann plenty of fans just over ten years ago, Pretty Girl earned her a place in ears around the world – and the beginning of a life-changing journey.

“There's been ups and downs since then, but I think, overall, I've really found myself as an artist and just even as a person. When I made Pretty Girl, I was 17 – I'm 27 now, and just the normal growth you go through from 17 to 27… I’ve learned so much about myself as a person and musically, and I feel like I'm at a really good place in my life and career. I'm very happy with the way things have gone.”

Since Pretty Girl, Lindemann has proven that she is indeed much more than the song’s namesake would imply – emotive, confident, and brave enough to lie on a bed of nails for the i feel everything press shots.

“Yeah, that photo was real,” she laughs. “My friend actually made that, and I laid on it for the picture. Because we made it ourselves, it was not evenly distributed, so it hurt, and it was not fun. It was a whole mess – but the outcome was really good, and I'm so happy to do it for real instead of using AI.”

Fortunately, not all of the visuals were as physically taxing to create, with the lyric video for i feel everything capturing a perfectly serene day on the water – something that reflects Lindemann’s enviable work-life balance.

“I love doing things like that, and I'm so excited that it's getting warmer here now and I can go lay by the water.”

“So much has changed in my personal life since the last tour. I’m in such a better headspace, and I finally feel like I'm back to myself, so I definitely think that shows – I'm genuinely having fun on tour.”

Of course, it helps to have good friends along for the ride, and Lindemann has no shortage of support on that front.

“I have a friend that's been with me for basically the whole tour and a lot of girls in the tour crew, and I’m loving the feminine energy.

“I think when I turned 25, when my frontal lobe developed, it gave me the ability to be outgoing, and I think that that's helped a lot on this tour, too - leaving my room and going and hanging out and doing fun things.”

Those who have seen Lindemann on a festival stage may know her for her angsty rock persona.

“I've performed at the same festivals as so many really cool people – Evanescence, Bring Me The Horizon, Slipknot… The support tours I've done with Madison Beer and Sabrina Carpenter and The Vamps have been so cool, too.”

But when it comes to headline shows, the main forecast is a lot of emotion.

“This tour has been very emotional. I look in the crowd, and I see people crying – in a fun way,” she laughs. “I’ll be doing some old songs too, so it'll be a fun show.”

Petition to include branded tissue boxes in the merch?

Catch Maggie Lindemann on tour across Australia in May – and, weather permitting, at the beach for some well-earned downtime.

Tickets to Maggie Lindemann’s 2026 Australian tour are now available.