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>>129556340
Are you a bad enough dude to listen to the top 21 Maggie songs?

1. Satellite: https://youtu.be/FxhaT1hgBp4

2. Anywhere With You: https://youtu.be/rhqYKHpiZ3E

3. Love You for a Long Time: https://youtu.be/iKYxMnW7bgs

4. Celadon & Gold: https://youtu.be/5gwFH-y5HxE

5. Split Stones: https://youtu.be/IHi5jq2P_Zk

6. Overdrive: https://youtu.be/gigJjgPThYA

7. The Kill: https://youtu.be/64J-9g3RftQ

8. Shatter: https://youtu.be/gWjr_r5vJzA

9. That's Where I Am: https://youtu.be/WdrNXRdkuG4

10. Together: https://youtu.be/Nn-DhwRUs2U

11. One More Afternoon: https://youtu.be/WMfvDeHBikk

12. Want Want: https://youtu.be/SylF32J2g8k

13. Horses: https://youtu.be/0Da6AvsegGs

14. Embers: https://youtu.be/mqkCx2yj_ac

15. Symmetry: https://youtu.be/gmE5zgqlgtI

16. Wolves: https://youtu.be/G8VxeMPe85Q

17. Deep in the Earth: https://maggierogers.bandcamp.com/track/deep-in-the-earth

18. Little Joys: https://youtu.be/OqUe2UbVSwk

19. Fallingwater: https://youtu.be/bR1d8l92Q8Q

20. James: https://youtu.be/Ka5iDC1cZfI

21. Don't Forget Me: https://youtu.be/JHh3w5xgSkc

For those seeking something innocent and pure, Creatures, A Love Letter and Drift are also wonderful tunes:

https://maggierogers.bandcamp.com/track/creatures

https://maggierogers.bandcamp.com/track/a-love-letter

https://maggierogers.bandcamp.com/track/drift

Bonus round: highlights from HIiaPL and NTtLIF.

Dog Years: https://youtu.be/NgWC5oEuyjU

Better: https://youtu.be/HbrYzRzkUvw

Light On: https://youtu.be/MSFjYe54uv4

Retrograde: https://youtu.be/NBUF-MdjbLQ

Give a Little (meh): https://youtu.be/yaXAMuhIe7Y

Alaska (the one the world loves that I don't; well, it made her famous): https://youtu.be/PNWsW6c6t8g

>>129556340
>Dilate Your Music
Who cares

>>129558911
AOTY is hardly kinder:
https://www.albumoftheyear.org/artist/25795-maggie-rogers/

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>>129556340
Her first two albums, especially The Echo, have a certain innocence to them that would be lost by the time she went commercial on Now That the Light Is Fading. The whole album is a farewell to adolescence and the anxiety of entering adulthood, but what distinguishes it is its strong emotional centerpiece on the closing track "Satellite" which she wrote at age 17. The song is a slow ballad about yearning to be free yet seen that crescendos at its lyrical climax, and damn, do those closing lyrics hit hard:
>So send me out to space and cut me free
>And like a satellite, just look for me

Blood Ballet would continue much of those themes, although instead of mourning adolescence, these would confront the first steps of adulthood. The lyrics here, while deeply emotional, are much rawer and unleashed without being scornful. While lacking a strong emotional centerpiece, the album still features lovely tunes like the homage to her high school boyfriend "James" who also happened to play trumpet on "Satellite".

For the sake of this thread, here's her early live performances:
https://youtu.be/by8KasYibdY
https://youtu.be/EYTr2e2_0SM

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here's your indie star's childhood home

>>129556340
her major label debut is one of the worst albums I’ve ever heard

>>129564120
We've been over this before. It's common knowledge she's a silver spoon brat.

>>129564329
Like I said, HIiaPL really isn't my style. Sure, Retrograde, Light On, Fallingwater and Burning are worthy but the rest of that album is mediocre.

Steady as a rock
I stand, I wait
With eyes that see
But eyes that can't erase
And hands that hold
But hands that can't embrace
A creature longing for some saving grace

Oh and I have long since
Seen the sun
It set along the banks
When I was young
Oh, and it's been long
Since you've been near
But fate was never kind to us, my dear

So send me out to space
And cut me free
And like a satellite
Just look for me
Oh and if there's darkness
In your sight
I'll be in the corner of the night

We live
We grow
We die
It snows

The ro
Tation
The earth
The sun

We write
We read
We love
We need

We need
We need
We need
I need

I need
I need
I need
I need

So send me into space
And cut me free
And like a satellite
Just look for me

>>129556340
What irritates me so much about Don't Forget Me is that the album was such a missed opportunity. As though she wanted to be the Millennial Natalie Imbruglia or LeAnn Rimes, two artists who I consider to be sonic wallpaper. "Torn" is the definition of waiting room music. It's not that the title track and The Kill aren't great because they are, but the rest of the album ranges from above average at best to dreck at worst with most being utterly mediocre.

If there's a single word that sums it up beyond forgettable, it's inconsequential. The whole album's concept is breaking up and moving on, but there's no payoff.

>>129566146
Torn is streets ahead of anything Maggie Rogers has ever recorded.

>>129566467
And it sucks ass. A forgettable Alt-Rock tune reimagined as waiting room Pop Rock.

>>129556340
I am sad there was no thread title. I lost 5 seconds of my life opening this and realizing who it was about.