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Creativity Quote by Melanie Chisholm

"Putting out my album on my own label has been a great experience for me. It's been very inspiring. It's like a new start for me and having all this creative freedom is so liberating and exciting"

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There’s a quiet power move hiding inside this cheerfully wholesome sentence. Melanie Chisholm isn’t just talking about an album rollout; she’s narrating an escape from the machinery that built her. Coming out of the Spice Girls era, she’s long been associated with a pop-industrial pipeline where brand, schedule, and sound are negotiated as much as they’re created. So “on my own label” lands less as logistics and more as a declaration of adulthood: not asking permission, not waiting to be picked, not being optimized by committee.

The phrasing does a lot of work. “Great experience” and “very inspiring” are soft-edged, PR-safe words, but the real charge is in the repetition of rebirth language: “new start,” “creative freedom,” “liberating.” That’s therapy-speak repurposed as business strategy. She’s framing independence as emotional health, which is exactly how a modern audience understands work now: autonomy equals sanity.

The subtext is also a gentle indictment. If freedom feels “liberating,” something about the prior setup was constraining - contractually, creatively, psychologically, or all three. She avoids naming villains; that restraint keeps the message forward-facing while still letting listeners fill in the blanks with their own distrust of legacy labels and gatekeepers.

Culturally, it fits the post-streaming, post-gatekeeper era where artists mythologize control: owning masters, choosing timelines, making music that doesn’t have to chase radio. Chisholm sells independence not as rebellion, but as oxygen.

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Chisholm, Melanie. (n.d.). Putting out my album on my own label has been a great experience for me. It's been very inspiring. It's like a new start for me and having all this creative freedom is so liberating and exciting. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/putting-out-my-album-on-my-own-label-has-been-a-71273/

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Chisholm, Melanie. "Putting out my album on my own label has been a great experience for me. It's been very inspiring. It's like a new start for me and having all this creative freedom is so liberating and exciting." FixQuotes. Accessed February 2, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/putting-out-my-album-on-my-own-label-has-been-a-71273/.

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"Putting out my album on my own label has been a great experience for me. It's been very inspiring. It's like a new start for me and having all this creative freedom is so liberating and exciting." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/putting-out-my-album-on-my-own-label-has-been-a-71273/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.

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Melanie Chisholm (born January 12, 1974) is a Musician from England.

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