Maggie Rogers is back with a new song. The track, “Love You for a Long Time,” follows her nomination for Best New Artist at the 2020 Grammy Awards. Check out the song below.
This past January, Maggie Rogers released debut album “Heard It in a Past Life”. In a press release, Rogers said of the new track, “It’s a song about love in all its forms—romantic love, the love I feel for my friends, the love I feel for my band, and the love I’ve shared with all of you. I wanted it to sound like the last days of summer. I wanted it to sound as wild and alive as new love feels.
For a long time, I’ve introduced myself as a banjo player from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. I’m a hiker and an environmentalist. I’m an optimist. I’m loud.
I’m still all those things, but I went quiet for a few years. I cut my long hair short. I got a cat named Cat Stevens. I fell in love. I moved to New York,
For so many artists the transition from independent releases to the major label league means giving up control, creative freedom and often relying upon team members to steer the project. This is something Maggie Rogers had been reluctant to consider, but she quickly realised upon signing – with Polydor in the U.K. and Capitol in the U.S. – that not things were different from the horror stories she’d imagined.
“I think the biggest surprise of all was actually a really nice surprise,” she says. “I had all these meetings with all these record labels and I wasn’t really sure what to make of them. I come from a culture that isn’t very sure of what to make of record labels, but what I came away with from the process was that people who work at record labels are really good people who really love music.”
With her Glastonbury set this weekend, a moment which is certain to be pivotal for the young star-in-waiting, the anticipation of a follow up track or project from Rogers to better Now That The Light Is Fading is skyrocketing. Knowing Maggie Rogers beautifully measured approach to winning people over, online and on-stage, she won’t disappoint.
It’s been a whirlwind of a ride for Maggie Rogers thus far, from a viral video clip to the official release of her astounding single “Alaska”, countless TV performances and months of touring, culminating in her breathtaking debut major label release, an EP called “Now That The Light Is Fading”. “Alaska” and its counterparts started off as another project which would count towards Rogers’ degree at NYU, where in a masterclass presided over by Pharrell Williams, the world was to become overwhelmed by her distinctive and timeless sound.
Maggie Rogers performs “Alaska” live at Indie88 in the Collective Arts Black Box.
Last year Maggie Rogers took the internet by storm after a video of her auditioning her song “Alaska” for Pharrell Williams went viral. The track left Pharrell stunned, and the video’s popularity created a huge fan base for MaggieRogers almost overnight. Just a few months later and she’s released an EP – Now That the Light Is Fading – and embarked on a massive global tour that included a sold-out show at the Mod Club in Toronto.
While she was in town, she and her band stopped in to the Collective Arts Black Box and performed intimate renditions of “Alaska” and “On + Off”.
In many ways Maggie Rogers is still a very new artist, but she does have a back catalogue. In fact, her still active Bandcamp page is full of hidden gems, such as a Felix Snow (Kiiara, Terror Jr) remix of “Resonant Body”, the opening track of Blood Ballet – a pre-fame independent album release. “Alaska” and Now That The Light Is Fading mark a new chapter, if not an entirely new book, in Rogers’ musicianship, though. While not entirely leaving behind her folk roots, which were rich in layered vocals and adorned with cellos and the odd banjo, the new releases feel like more of an arrival than a departure. “I guess this was just for me to try out pop music and to see what my music sounded like in that space. I think the goal was to maybe play a small stage on a festival next year,” she explains of the EP. “I never in my wildest dreams thought that things could’ve gone so incredibly well.”
Maggie Rogers made Pharrell cry with her music — that’s how talented she is. The recent NYU graduate wrote her debut hit “Alaska” in fifteen minutes, an ode to a life-changing hike she took in the state. The song is a magical electropop gem (with a video directed by Zia Anger) that has put Rogers on every bloggers radar for the coming year.
Rogers released her much-anticipated debut EP “Now That The Light Is Fading”. Four of the songs are originals written, produced and performed by this talented artist. Simultaneously ethereal and vulnerable, Rogers instantly captured the audience with her natural stage presence and dreamy vocals. On Fallon recently she performed the track ,the audience, not unexpectedly, gave her a standing ovation.
Maggie Rogers New York City Singer Songwriter has just release her third album, This track “James” with a world weary vocal and a gently plucked banjo Hope we hear more very soon of this upcoming album
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