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By the time she finished touring in the winter of , Rogers was "super burned out and it was making me hate music". Each of the 12 songs were written between April and November as she attempted to escape the gravitational pull of lockdown anxiety. Maggie’s fans on Reddit say she was dating fellow artist Holden Jaffe, aka Del Water Gap (DWG).

She jokingly calls it "a full pandemic record". However, it seems her fans did that work for her, as they’ve come up with a person in mind. On the urgent and thrilling Shatter, she pushes her vocals to breaking point, the melody fracturing in her throat as she vaults a churning guitar riff.

"I immediately went to the queer sex shop down the street in. As she sang, she threw off her sunglasses, symbolically breaking the barrier between the stage and the crowd. Everybody knowing they were supposed to have a great time but not being totally ready to let go.

So she moved back to her parents' house in Maine and "cut off the rest of the world" to focus on "reading and resting and walking along the jagged cliffs". Singer Maggie Rogers is speaking out after she was sexually harassed onstage during a concert, saying she was “stunned.” In a statement posted on Twitter and Instagram, Rogers, 25, wrote.

She was thrust into the spotlight in , when a viral video of her wowing Pharrell Williams triggered a record label bidding war. The sensuality of the lyric and her performance are things she'd have shied away from in the past. How do I help people feel a connection to something bigger than themselves - me included?

Rogers says the album is, in many ways, about her relationship with New York. Called Surrender a title it shares with her thesis it's an absolute beast of a record, full of propulsive, pounding drums and glowing, rootsy indie-pop. But with her recently chopped hair, #freethenipple clothing choices, and, ahem, popularity amongst the LGBTQ+ community she’s at minimumqueer adjacent.

Crucially, escaping the pressures of fame allowed her to recalibrate her priorities. Maggie Rogers said all of that but didn’t reveal the name of her ex-partner. Margaret Debay Rogers (born April 25, ) is an American singer-songwriter and record producer from Easton, Maryland.

Which is how Rogers ended up recording, mixing and mastering an entire album while she pursued her degree. I needed to find a way to protect that. Her song "Love You for a Long Time" was about her former boyfriend. When thousands of people watched Maggie Rogers play the Coachella festival in April, few of them will have known the performance was part of her post-graduate coursework.

It was then that she enrolled at Harvard. To my knowledge, Maggie Rogers is straight. While she prefers having a private love life, Maggie Rogers does not mind sharing that through her music. Rogers graduated last week, and found the degree had replenished her creative spirit after a bumpy entry into the music business.

But the lyrics were undoubtedly the product of an introvert gasping for air. Lyrically and sonically, the album is constantly shaking itself awake with a visceral urgency that Rogers' earlier material sometimes lacked. Her debut album, Heard It In A Past Life, was a hailed as an " irresistible " and " brilliant " collection of buoyant folk-pop, and earned Rogers a Grammy nomination for best new artist.

But there's a parallel thread of romance Things step up a gear on Want Want, a sinuous declaration of lust and desire; accompanied by a video in which Rogers dances with wild abandon in a New York karaoke bar. I lived in a little apartment and I rode my bike to school and I steamed broccoli on a Tuesday and went to the bar with all the college students.

The show fulfilled a public presentation element of her masters degree in religion and public life at Harvard Divinity School, a subject she was compelled to explore after experiencing "mind-blowing spiritual ecstasy" during her shows. How do you bring people together at a time when we've never been more divided?

It's not just something I got swept up into, like, 'I went viral and here I am. At Coachella, she opened her set with Give A Little, a song about the emotional transaction between audiences and performers. Even so, she was heckled by a man shouting "take your top off" during a gig in Austin, Texas.

[1] After her song "Alaska" was played to artist-in-residence Pharrell Williams during a master class at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts in Manhattan in , she. Maggie Rogers on reclaiming her sexuality, and why she left pop music to study divinity at Harvard.

"If you look at that video, I'm wearing a pair of suit trousers, but I paired it with this bustier that I bought," she recalls.