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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 me, these would be the highlights of her early work. What do you say, /mu/?
https://youtu.be/G8VxeMPe85Q
https://youtu.be/5MSFtTuUDnU
https://youtu.be/FxhaT1hgBp4
https://youtu.be/OqUe2UbVSwk
https://youtu.be/ERKbgfRJAr4
https://youtu.be/Ka5iDC1cZfI
https://youtu.be/r5CvBTW2TCc

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

Not all songs are available on YouTube, but they live on Bandcamp:
https://maggierogers.bandcamp.com/album/the-echo
https://maggierogers.bandcamp.com/album/blood-ballet

Highlights: Embers, Deep in the Earth, Creatures, Wolves, Satellite, Resonant Body, James, Drift, Little Joys, Anybody, Symmetry
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>>129168740
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If you stayed in your maggie rogers general and didn't interact with the rest of the board you would be an okay poster.
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>>129168762
I have other genres of music I like. /trad/ is rapidly becoming my absolute favorite general thread on /mu/, but this isn't about that.

Do you have any thoughts on what I just posted or are you just gonna seethe at me?
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Some live performances of the early years:
https://youtu.be/NyEJ16r_sLU

https://youtu.be/zqjJEYjUe4I

https://youtu.be/ahIy1udc4tw

https://youtu.be/9jKFxkXzwtI
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serious patrick bateman vibes
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>>129170309
You're not the first person to compare my prose to his.
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The Notes from the Archive exclusive tracks are also worth listening to. Understandable why she shelved them only to release them later. This likely wouldn't have impressed Pharrell but still is compelling on their own:
https://youtu.be/5gwFH-y5HxE
https://youtu.be/Nn-DhwRUs2U
https://youtu.be/WMfvDeHBikk
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>>129168740
Anyone?
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>>129173178
Anyone what?
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>>129173314
Well, do you have any thoughts on the songs shared in the OP? I've said what I wanted to say. Perhaps others have their own take on them. "A Love Letter" is another solid track found in The Echo. It's not on YouTube but you'll find it on the Bandcamp page.
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>>129173370
No one cares about music here. Unless your bitch is hot and the coomers can fap to the pics it's over.
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>>129173530
Well, that's certainly quite shallow. This thread isn't for those people.

You're telling me you couldn't be bothered to be moved by one of her songs? If "Satellite" doesn't stir you, I'll pray you find your soul.
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>>129173554
I just don't care about that type of music. Generic girl wailing over slow cords is not interesting. They are all interchangeable in lyrics and music. All of them sound the same. That Satellite one is so generic I couldn't pay attention for more than 20 seconds.
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>>129173624
Very well then. What would you consider more compelling within this style?
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>>129173846
Enough already
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>>129173862
I'm serious. Communication isn't possible when you won't name what's ideal for you.
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>>129174077
I’m serious, stop trying to force this mid bitch on everyone. Stop posting in every thread. Stop coming here, you suck. Seriously.
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>>129174139
I'm staying right here. Low activity or high activity, I still believe in the few who care.
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>>129174139
This. Can't stress this enough.
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>>129174139
>>129174825
samefag
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>>129174838
It could be a couple of different anons. Maggie tends to polarize /mu/tants.
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Euthanize everyone in this thread
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>>129174934
Pretty delightful how someone so inoffensive could make you seethe this hard.
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>>129174920
For the millionth time, nobody gives a fuck about her. It’s you that we all hate. If you died, /mu/tants would celebrate.
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>>129174961
I genuinely used to listen to her occasionally but you are so fucking weird and creepy that it’s put me off from her music and I removed her songs from my playlist
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>>129174994
That sounds like your problem rather than mine.
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>Nineveh
>Ni(co sperg) neveh left
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>>129175038
>mfw
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>>129168740
OP ignore the haters. I for one like this thread and listen to Maggie thanks to you. I added some of her songs to my playlist and like them when they come up. I will never be a superfan like you, but I do enjoy her stuff.
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>>129175130
You're welcome, lad. Are you my webm maker fren?
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>>129175156
Doesn't sound like me. I don't know how to make webms. I don't usually post in threads, I mostly lurk. I did check out the songs you were posting in the OPs and liked them. That was many months ago.
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>he’s talking to himself again
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>>129175130
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>>129175191
RAMPANT samefaggotry lmao
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>>129175205
Fucking this! Thank you!!
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This is just fucking sad
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>>129175218
>samefag posting from two devices accuses others of samefagging

this is some serious /mu/ception
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>>129175228
Put your trip back on
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Any of you guys like Stevie Wonder? I’m listening to him right now.
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>>129175243
I don't listen to black musicians
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>>129175243
Yes! My favorite is Stevie Wonders Journey through the Secret Life of Plants
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>>129175273
Good pick. My favorite is songs in the key of life. Basic choice I know but it’s just so fucking good. That one-two punch of As and Another Star is mind-boggling.
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>>129175291
It’s a classic for a reason
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Of Maggie's major label work, Surrender stands out as her magnum opus. This album was also the concept behind her Master's thesis at Harvard Divinity School which even her fans on Reddit found too pretentious. Even so, I strain to think of a more human album in the 2020s on account of its utter sincerity. No emotion here is performed for its own sake and each tracks bleeds with raw feelings. If "Anywhere With You" doesn't bring tears to your eyes, I pray you find your soul:

https://youtu.be/rhqYKHpiZ3E
https://youtu.be/gigJjgPThYA
https://youtu.be/gWjr_r5vJzA
https://youtu.be/WdrNXRdkuG4
https://youtu.be/SylF32J2g8k
https://youtu.be/0Da6AvsegGs
https://youtu.be/IyAeu4g9fcM
https://youtu.be/NjABAVsZ_mU
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>>129175238
Believe whatever you want. I stand by everything I post.
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>>129168740
Someone asked me if I could pass the Plinkett test. I think I could.
>Describe your favorite musician without saying what they look like, what kind of clothes or costume they wear, what instruments they play, their vocal range, what genre of music they make, how famous they are, who they dated, fought with, or were "canceled" by and what awards, records, or chart positions they have. Describe them to your friends like they ain't ever heard them before.

Maggie is painfully earnest and adorably sincere. Her music can be painful, sexual, sensual, melancholic, joyful, idealistic, anxious, smug and cringeworthy but it is never artificial or cheap. All her albums follow consistent themes and emotions that almost feel like concept albums without technically being so. At her top form, she rarely fills space for its own sake, and every song flows seamlessly into the next without issue. At the end, I'm left longing for fulfilled permanence and reproductive love with the woman worth committing to.

As a guy who spent much of his time listening to aggressive music celebrating triumph and devastation, I'm left feeling alive every time I listen to her.
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Of her singles, "Love You for a Long Time" is my favorite. Sure, it's painfully commercial but soft and lovely.
https://youtu.be/iKYxMnW7bgs
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"Split Stones" isn't half bad either:
https://youtu.be/IHi5jq2P_Zk

Small anecdote, my gym's dance instructor had "Light On" in the DJ mix blaring loudly enough to be heard from above. The chorus was sadly sandwiched between two choruses from other artists, including a Rap, which ruined the chorus, but it was still nice to hear it out in the wild.
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>>129168740
Apart from "Light On" and "Fallingwater", I really don't care much for Heard It in a Past Life despite all the hype "Alaska" received. Same issue I have with Now That the Light Is Fading. Only really care for "Dog Days" from that EP.

Guess I'm not a Pop guy at all.
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>>129168740
A bunch of reviews I've seen. For whatever reason, everyone loves Don't Forget Me, but apart from the title track and "The Kill" that album was cruelly forgettable or memorable for the wrong reasons. Looking at you, "So Sick of Dreaming". Anyway, some food for thought:
https://www.warewolfreviews.com/complete-artist-reviews/maggie-rogers

https://spillmagazine.com/spill-album-review-maggie-rogers-dont-forget-me/

https://www.spin.com/2024/04/maggie-rogers-dont-forget-me-review/

https://theartsdesk.com/new-music/albums-year-2022-maggie-rogers-surrender

https://www.theyoungfolks.com/review/166317/surrender-review-maggie-rogers-encourages-happiness-by-any-means-on-her-latest-album/

https://www.popmatters.com/maggie-rogers-surrender-album-review

Here's a few critical ones:
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/maggie-rogers-dont-forget-me-album-review/

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/maggie-rogers-sophomore-album-surrender/

https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/music/maggie-rogers-album-review-heard-it-in-a-past-life-alaska-pharrell-williams-a8731076.html
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So...
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talentless whore (blacked to boot)
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>>129184985
We all know this. Not worth it to bump these threads, though.
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>>129185078
you are absolutely right. I sort threads by creation date in the catalog and never pay attention to what page they are on.
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>>129184985
>>129185078
>>129185091
You certain cared enough to seethe.
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>>129185555
Genuinely please seek help before you hurt somebody
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>>129185590
Who are you, my fucking therapist?
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>>129185857
I’m serious
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>>129185863
Who am I going to hurt?

Anyway, do you have ANY thoughts on the songs posted ITT or are you just gonna keep seething and/or concern trolling?
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>>129185590
>>129185863
kek
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>>129174971
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>>129174971
>we
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>>129175238
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I'll bump this to make the haters seethe
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>>129188587
Much appreciated. Got any favorites?
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>>129189094
stop samefagging
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>>129189187
Believe whatever you want. The evidence speaks for itself.
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>>129189216
>what is photoshop
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>>129189404
Again, believe whatever you want. You're going to accuse me of samefagging no matter what.
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>>129189428
idk if you're samefagging, but you're definitely fagging.
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>>129189094
I did find the first and the last link in your first block kinda nice. Haven't listened to the rest. I won't start listening to her or anything, but I support your efforts.
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>>129189905
samefag
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>>129189905
Thanks :3

If I may recommend one more song, I would strongly suggest "Satellite" as that still holds up. And to think she wrote that at age 17.
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>>129168740
dem freckles
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>>129190548
ugly
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>>129190895
For you.
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...
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>>129186583
qt
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>>129194346
She is, indeed, cute and adorable.
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>>129194906
seek help
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>>129194937
As soon as you quit seething.
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>>129168740
Can't believe I slept on L' Impératrice featuring Maggie on "Any Way":
https://youtu.be/sZQa5gmhKI8
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>>129194949
first pic where I find her attractive
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>>129196134
I see you prefer hippie Maggie.
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>>129196144
that's actually nice wtf
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>>129196144
>>129196160
samefag
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>>129196160
I normally find celebrity interviews cringeworthy, but she pours on the charm thick here:
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/05/233706/maggie-rogers-lyrics-singer-bio-interview
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>>129196182
>ctrl+f "trump"
>1 result

naturally
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>>129196214
Meh. It's only a passing reference. Rest assured, she's painfully libtarded in the most bougie silver spoon way possible.
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>>129196277
Seethe harder.
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>>129196458
>caught samefagging
LMAO
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>>129196649
>pic

Fucking kek, uncanny
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>>129196649
>>129197654
Uh huh.
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>>129168740
I don't waste my time with waiting room TV, but it's nice to know the source of this footage:
https://youtu.be/rySjQ69FNE4
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Might as well post my other favorites that haven't been posted so far:

https://youtu.be/64J-9g3RftQ

https://youtu.be/mqkCx2yj_ac

https://youtu.be/gmE5zgqlgtI

https://youtu.be/bR1d8l92Q8Q

https://youtu.be/JHh3w5xgSkc
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>>129168740
She might dance like Elaine, but that's okay.
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>>129199998
No dance coaches whete she lives?
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bump to piss of that one hater (you know who you are)
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>>129202890
Heh, thanks. Got any favorite songs?
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:^)
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we love u maggie
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>>129208570
LMAO, that cut out of Pharrell is taken from this same exact video this screenshot is from:
https://youtu.be/FAM1N1APk80
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>>129208586
eXACTLY I LOVE
THAYT VID LMAOOD
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u recogmized n replyd in like less
than 2 minutez
bc the vid IS JUST THAT ICONIC
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>>129208590
>>129208597
How did you get into Maggie Rogers?

Me: my gym had "Want Want" on loop for months. Was the first refreshing song I heard in years.
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;^)
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>>129212469
Thanks
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Is it ok if I think she's cute, but find her music unpleasant?
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>>129216600
Sure, I guess. What songs didn't resonate with you?
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>>129216600
you think most pop singer posters actually listen to the music? maggiefan is an exception. it's mostly coomers.
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>>129217340
I'm doing everything in my power to use this board as is intended.
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>>129217453
...and you get hate for it. curios that.
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>>129217567
Part of it is, indeed, my own fault. Pre-trip, I'd be abrasive and hurl unsolicited critiques at other female musicians namely Chappell Roan, Halsey and Grimes. That I also have loudly pronounced contempt for Pop music galvanized others.

On the other hand, only a handful of anti-Maggies could articulate why they dislike her. One called her an apple polisher on par with Rory Gilmore and called attention to her pop psych weltanschauung and TED Talk diction. That, to me, is the most substantive critique leveled at her.
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Ugly dog of a "woman"
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>>129218014
Prettier than you'll ever be.
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>>129218270
Evidentially not
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>>129218362
Keep telling yourself that.
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Imagine hating this. Couldn't be me.
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>>129219605
Stop pushing down our threads
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>>129219617
No
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Uggo
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>>129220025
Prettier than you.
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>>129220025
>>129220464
Samefag
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>>129219617
>our
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Bump for more Maggie content
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>>129222550
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>>129224406
kek
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>>129228920
disgusting
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>>129229003
But enough about you.
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>>129229034
>vile tranny waifu
>vile tripfag poster

Why am I not surprised. A pairing made in haven.
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>>129229201
Only vile one here is you.
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>>129168740
>>129181272
Curious to see how metacritic treats both albums:
https://www.metacritic.com/music/surrender/maggie-rogers
https://www.metacritic.com/music/dont-forget-me/maggie-rogers
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Is she still signed to Capitol?
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>>129230511
As I understand, yes.
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>>129232394
kys
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>>129232394
kys
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>>129232481
>>129233040
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>>129233232
kys
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>>129168740
"Embers"

Fight or flight, I choose to run
Composure instantly undone
I catch my breath, but it's too small
I breathe again, I breathe in all

And everything we ever shared
I stand with all my secrets bared
But walk alone into the night
For you were all, the greatest light

Though the fire has died
And the ash, it subsides
The embers stay burning for you
Clocks they always seem to lie
On minute hands you can't rely
But heartbeats always tell the truth
They race at just the thought of you

The same way that they always have
Shy of hopeful, never sad
But always wondering, always afraid
That you forgot just what we made

Though the fire has died
And the ash, it subsides
The embers stay burning for you

And if they die, I'll still remember
If they die, I'll still remember
If they die, I'll still remember you

Though the fire has died
And the ash, it subsides
The embers stay burning for you
-
"Deep In The Earth"

Excuse me for a minute
'Cause this won't be brief
I've been hiding these words
Under my tongue, protected
By the walls of my yellow-stained teeth

They've festered and broken
And they've rearranged
They've misspelled themselves
And now they're leaking out of my
Brain

They say ashes to ashes
And dust to dust
But my heart's made of metal
And the clasp's rusted shut
'Cause you left it out in the
Rain

But if these are the last breaths
I'm breathing on earth
Then I pray to God
You remember me when
My body is deep in the earth

(Whoa, Whoa)

My back's ached for years
Carrying my heavy heart
It beats itself silly
And pounds through the dark
Sustaining the life that lives within

And yet was so desperate
To beat in time
It rang in your rhythm
And mimicked your
Rhyme

You can't blame it for trying
Or clinging to love
But love's left my soul
And I've forgotten love
And what's left is your smoky silhouette

But if these are the last breaths
I'm breathing on earth
Then I pray to God
You remember me
When my body is deep in the earth
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"Creatures"

Well I've lived a short life
Not a lot of things that I've seen
But in that short life
A lot of things that I've been

I've been a daughter
And a sister too
I've been in trouble
And I've been in love with you

And we are all just creatures, baby
Fumbling towards the light
And I'm crawling on my knees now, baby
Won't you make my heart alright?

Won't you make my heart alright?

Well there is an old house
That I think about sometimes
With creaky floorboards
And height marks of a outgrown child

And it burnt down sometime ago
Or so it would seem
And I still see it's dying colors
In the autumn leaves

And we are all just creatures, baby
Longing to be free
And if we're all just creatures, baby
Won't you give my heart to me?

Won't you give your heart to me?

Well used to swim the river
Once or twice every year
But I found out that the river
It was often insincere

So now I dip my toes in
Still hoping to get wet
But without my whole body
My fate, it has been set

And we are all just creatures, baby
Grounded by our fear
And if you're scared of love, now baby
You'll know only loneliness and tears

Only loneliness and tears

And I may only be a creature
But I'm still fumbling towards the light
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"Wolves"

In the morning
I'll be waking
I'll be rising with the sun

I'll be gearing for the road
To leave this world
And run

I'm no longer speaking
'Cause the perfect words
I always lacked

In the morning
I'll be running
And never coming back

I'm not waiting
For the wolves to take my body
I'm not waiting for the wolves

I'm not waiting
For the wolves to rip my heart out
I'm not waiting for the wolves

In the evening
I'll be resting
Warmed by the autumn harvest moon

I'll be curing
My disease
'Cause to you I'm now immune

Searching
For a reason
'Cause one never did appear

In the evening
I'll be resting
Dreaming of another year

I'm not waiting
For the wolves to take my body
I'm not waiting for the wolves
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"By Morning"

The forest is dark
And I'm wide awake
Not sleeping

The road to my heart
Is stark
But I'm alive

Which way would you run
If you were looking
Through my glass eyes?

Or would your clean skin
Leave you
Paralyzed?

And baby
I was born
To daylight

With twilight
Tangled in
The sky

And as I
Escape
And take flight

I am running free
Of all those
Tangled wires

And I'll be home
By morning
And the morning light
Will warm
My tired bones
I'll run
Through the trees
And through the forest
And in morning
By morning
I'll be home
-
"A Love Letter"

Dear old tree in my front yard
Thank you for your shade
Your leaves are speckled with streaming rays of sun
And I love the rustling noise they make

The swing on your branch
Is my favorite spot
And I'm sorry for the steps we nailed
Into your bark

I'll love you forever
Yes, I'll love you still
I'll love you more than any man
Oh, I promise that I will

Dear old chickens that wander through my yard
Thank you for the eggs that you have laid
Oh their blue/green shells are speckled with dirt
But I love the cracking sound they make

While chasing you is something
I admit I've done a lot
I could never steam or fry you
Or put you in a pot

Yes, I'll love you forever
Yes, I'll love you still
Oh, I'll love you more than any man
Oh, I promise that I will

Dear old house that I grew up in
I miss you when I'm gone
The dog hair on my sofa
And the light through my window at dawn

While I know at times it seems that I am
Far away
I'll be home for thanksgiving
And on christmas day

Yes, I'll love you forever
Yes, I'll love you still
Oh, I'll love you more than any man
Oh, forever I will
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"Kids Like Us"

And I'll turn eighteen on a Sunday
And it'll be the day I've waited for
Mom will bake cake and there'll be presents
Like there always was before
But if time keeps moving just like this
Then it won't be soon before I'm old

And they will all be wishing they could just be kids like us
And they will all be wishing they could just be kids like us
But I'm getting older with each day
And soon I'll be wishing too

And on the eve of my fifth birthday
When my father found me in tears
And I've always been fearless
But scared of oncoming years
And he tried to make it alright
And he told me not to cry

And they will all be wishing they could just be kids like us
And they will all be wishing they could just be kids like us
But I'm getting older with each day
And soon I'll be wishing too

It's easy to remember
When everything was calm
Two hands on the bike I rode
Just me and my mom
But I haven't rode in a long while
Now we drive most of the time

And they will all be wishing they could just be kids like us
And they will all be wishing they could just be kids like us
But I'm getting older with each day
And soon I'll be wishing too
And soon I'll be wishing too
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"Satellite"

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
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>>129168740
"You (Embers Reprise)"

You
Only You

Though the fire has died
And the ash it subsides
The embers
Stay burning for you
-
"Resonant Body"

I'm a resonant body
With knuckles and lungs
Beat me with cymbals
Play chords on my tongue

I'm a resonant body
With elbows and toes
Drum on my rib cage
Release my dissonant tones

I'm a resonant body
Trace it along my skin
In the freckles and old scars
And the lines I have hid

In a resonant body
All the frequencies hold like
Dirty feet on carpet
Your breath in the cold
Warm breath in the cold

I'm sorry for our miscommunication
And force fed sympathies
I'll rest in the garden
With roots, oh and the reeds
Safe from human frequencies

I'm a resonant body
With elbows and toes
Drum on my rib cage
Release my dissonant tones
-
"James"

"Too young, too thoughtless," I said to myself
With realistic visions all perched on the shelf
'Cause I'm still hoping, waiting for you to come home

May your snow capped mountains carry you far
May they stand as protectors wherever you are
May you stay safe and happy all of your days

Oh James
Oh James

Maybe you're in love or hung up on another
Maybe you found a far prettier lover
Maybe you'll paint her a picture like you did for me

You color your world with that Neverland smile
But it goes dark in pieces every once in a while
And on my birthday I told you, "Don't worry, there'll be other days"

Oh James
Oh James

I'll always be happy if you choose to call
Or write me a letter saying all that you saw and
How things have changed since our days there on Noxontown Pond

No don't be a stranger, no don't go too far
And though you love places that have lots of stars
Just know in the city, you'll always have a place to stay

Oh James
Oh James
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"Drift"

Won't you tread lightly 'cause the house is sleeping
Won't you tread lightly down the stairs
Will you leave my lonely when the sun is creeping
Up from the horizon over there

Won't you tread lightly the floorboards are creaking
Won't you tread lightly when you're gone
Will you leave me lonely when the day is breaking
Will you leave me lonely in the dawn

Keep me in your prayers when you are wandering
Keep me forever on your lips
Keep me in your thoughts when winter's knocking
Hold me when the snow begins to drift

Won't you stay a while and we could sleep in
Won't you stay a while and warm my skin
But I know you're headed for another lifetime
Be another til you're back again

Keep me in your prayers when you are wandering
Keep me forever on your lips
Keep me in your thoughts when winter's knocking
Hold me when the snow begins to drift
-
"Blood Ballet"

Say it's not so
Say your heart it wrote me letters all the time
Say it sealed them up and with your breath did sign
Them all away

Say that your notes
They were no forgery, you meant them every line
Some in meter, some in verse, and some in rhyme
Tell me you meant every word

You could cut my knees and leave me at the door
I'd still pick all your memories off our dusty floor
If you'd stay
If you'd stay

Darling, just a little while
Darling, just a little while
Darling, just a little while

Tell me how you are
And I'll write a song for every feeling I can't name
Like we were dancing in a fucking blood ballet
It was a massacre

How'd you get away?
'Cause oh, good heavens we abided by the night
But there are darker things than the absence of light
And they still creak through our halls

I would build a city out of you and me
There would be crime, but still a local grocery
If you'd stay
If you'd stay

Darling, just a little while
Darling, just a little while
Darling, just a little while

A little while
A little while
A little while
Darling, just a little while
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"Little Joys"

Bonfire of awe and a thirst was burning
Heart like a house, the floorboards were turning
Dark river beds where slumber was decay

The light it wrapped you in its flame
The only heir of the breaking day
Made words an arrow only you could aim

With no injury to claim
I'm a big mess of little joys
My blue eyes are wrapped in grey
I'm a big mess of little joys

I loved you once, but none to blame
A foggy peak in the august rain
A humid heat that would never dissipate

The wind it hunted our stray calls
Combined with dragging from the hull
But that was then when you gripped tight on me

With no injury to claim
I'm a big mess of little joys
My blue eyes are wrapped in grey
I'm a big mess of little joys

Lunar, solar, thought that things were over
Midnight, twilight, thought that things were alright
Don't you take my heart away
I'm a big mess of little joys
-
"Good Heart"

You told me, "Darling, don't you worry oh my dear"
But my mind it worries much to much I do fear

Sick of a march made of patterns and circles in time
Bravery sprung from cacophonous calls of our crimes

I told you, "Darling, don't you dare come so near"
Prompted by lungs seeking hydrogen, oxygen clear, but

Weave me a thread from your chest and a spindle from spine
Tapestry hung from a delicate frame in our minds

But you had a good heart
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"Anybody"

Everybody's waiting
For their one and only
Their now and always

And Everybody's waiting
For their feet to lead them
Heart beats to seize them

But what's running through my veins
Makes me just the same as everybody
I might be saying this in vain
But I'm looking for my anybody

People have always told us
That the silence heeds us
The night decrees us

But I believe that silence
Is all there is to
What's underneath us

And if you're staring at my bones
They are all the stories I embody
And you've got stories of your own
Tell me will you be my anybody

And I am asking so someday
When I get older
That I will be able to say
That I am not alone

Be my anybody
Be my anybody

But til then I'll be waiting
No, not by myself, but with everybody
'Cause hidden in the silence
Is my one and only anybody
-
"On The Page"

Follow
The flight of the north moving birds
Steady
The echo, the great moving herd

They fly through the night
Fill their wings and their sights
With cold air and pale shadowed moons

Oh lover, kid you not
Though we promised a lot
I must fly from you

So hold me
Sing me to sleep
On the crest of a late breaking wave
And write me
Into your thoughts
I'll be safe with the words on the page

Shadow
The light plays its own little games
Dream world
Its own silent claim to remain

And it'll follow you still
Through the streams and the hills
And remnants of gold autumn leaves

Oh lover, you can walk
But your shadow still stalks
From between the trees

So hold me
Sing me to sleep
On the crest of a late breaking wave
And write me
Into your thoughts
I'll be safe with the words on the page
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"Symmetry"

We don't have to talk
Leave your words in the city with your heavy thoughts

We don't have to shout
Oh, I wish that you would just let me out

We don't have to shiver
Like we did back then

We don't have to quiver
Or remember when

I am soaked in symmetry
Beating on the axis of symmetry
Soaked in symmetry
-
"Drift Demo"

Won't you tread lightly 'cause the house is sleeping
Won't you tread lightly down the stairs
Will you leave my lonely when the sun is creeping
Up from the horizon over there

Won't you tread lightly the floorboards are creaking
Won't you tread lightly when you're gone
Will you leave me lonely when the day is breaking
Will you leave me lonely in the dawn

Keep me in your prayers when you are wandering
Keep me forever on your lips
Keep me in your thoughts when winter's knocking
Hold me when the snow begins to drift

Won't you stay a while and we could sleep in
Won't you stay a while and warm my skin
But I know you're headed for another lifetime
Be another til you're back again

Keep me in your prayers when you are wandering
Keep me forever on your lips
Keep me in your thoughts when winter's knocking
Hold me when the snow begins to drift
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*winks*
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>>129239406
Id rape that
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say maggiefan, you often post about the folk stuff she does. what's the best of her folk songs or ones with folk influence?
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>>129241231
Well, there's The Echo which is a full on Folk/Folk Rock album. The songs not on YouTube are on Bandcamp.

My absolute favorite cut off that is "Satellite" but that's more Chamber Folk than straight up Folk. The more Folk songs are Wolves, Embers, Deep in the Earth, Creatures and A Love Letter.

On Blood Ballet, the Folk songs there are the title track (don't really like this one), James (my favorite), Little Joys (my second favorite), Drift, Resonant Body, Good Heart, On the Page and Anybody

My top 10 Maggie Folk songs would be:

1. Satellite
2. Wolves
3. James
4. Little Joys
5. Embers
6. Deep in the Earth
7. Anybody
8. Resonant Body
9. Creatures
10. A Love Letter
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>>129241231
Other Folk-influenced favorites in no particular order: Don't Forget Me, Horses, Love You for a Long Time, Dog Years
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>>129241231
>>129241306
>>129241364
pathetic samefag
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>>129241625
Whatever you say.
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spam thread
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>>129242845
Does it matter when barely anybody posts here?
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>>129242890
yes, you are messing up my feng shui
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>>129242906
Sure thing, buddy. While you're here, got anything to say about the music posted?
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>>129242845
Agreed
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>>129242920
no
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>>129242940
>>129242944
>posting from two devices again
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>>129242953
Believe whatever you want. My posts speak for themselves.
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>>129242953
Put your trip back on
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>>129242957
lmao
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>>129242961
>>129243011
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>/mrg/ - if wpop was the worst person on the board spamming the most bland person in all of music
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>>129244065
Keep seething.
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>>129244097
I'm laughing at how pathetic it is. Board sucks too much to seethe about anything here.
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>>129244114
You cared enough to reply.
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Walked in straight away and slammed the door last night
I caught you on the couch, you were having a fright
All alone, with the TV on
Clothes strewn on the floor, I got down on my knees
You told me everything that you wanted to be
All along, was it wrong?
And I said

Listen, oh, I know it's been a long, long year
But I think we should go and get you outta here
I'll go anywhere, anywhere with you
Pack up all your shit and put it in the back
Maybe the miles can make up for the things you lack
I'll go anywhere, anywhere with you

Cruising 95 like we got nothing to lose
I'm praying to the headlights like I prayed to you
Before I found you
Roll the windows down, kill the radio
I'd rather hear the wind than hear that song I'm supposed to know
By some fucking bro

You tell me that forever couldn't come too soon
I wanna lose my mind in a hotel room with you
Anywhere would do
I'm sitting in the bath like it's pouring rain
You call me from the hall just to say my, say my name
I'll go anywhere with you
I'll go anywhere with you
Anywhere with you
Anywhere with you
I'll go anywhere with you

Would you tell me if I ever started holding you back?
Would you talk me off the guard rail of my panic attack?
Look me straight in my center and tell me from the heart
Are you ready to start? Are you ready to start?
Are you ready to start? Are you ready to start?
Are you ready to start?

You tell me that forever couldn't come too soon
If I'm gonna lose my mind, I'm gonna lose it with you
You tell me you want everything, you want it fast
But all I've ever wanted is to make something fucking last
I'll go anywhere, I'll go anywhere, I'll go anywhere with you
Anywhere with you
Anywhere with you
Anywhere with you
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>>129249386
BLACKED whore
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>>129249798
You see coalburners in your cereal boxes.
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>>129251058
flapjack tits
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>>129251113
They're everywoman tits.
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mental illness
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degeneracy
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>>129257579
and yet when ashelee simpson did this it was the talk of the town
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>>129259251
She got in trouble for lipsyncing a live performance.
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>>129253632
>>129255227
As if this thread is any worse than any other waifu thread.
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>>129261012
It is.
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>>129261024
Only because you don't like me and Maggie.
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>>129261040
No.
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>>129261012
This and the emily armstrong thread, and the two faggots that waste their lives tending to these monuments of mental illness, are the worst regular posters on the board. These threads are actually worse than kpop generals. Sincerely, fuck you.
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>>129261060
>>129261076
Die seething.
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>>129261083
Can't die doing something I never did in life.
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>>129261012
As if Stalin is any worse than Hitler
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>>129261094
>>129261099
Same energy
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>>129261141
Incorrect.
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>>129261141
>projection
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>>129261141
God this shit is so fucking sad
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>>129261147
>>129261155
>>129261160
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>>129261270
dril is troonslop
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>>129261270
Irrelevant.
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>>129261270
kys
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>>129261283
>>129261288
>>129261312
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>>129261323
Never said that.
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>>129261076
Stop being a faggot. Why do you hate other people having fun? What's it to you? Hide the thread if you don't enjoy it.

No I am not the Maggie poster without his trip. I don't even care about his waifu.
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>>129262782
Hide the post if you don’t enjoy it retard
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>>129262870
How hard is it not to be a rude, obnoxious, aggravating faggot? Just be normal.
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>>129262884
>projection
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>>129262895
Projection of what? You are literally dropping into this dude's thread hurling insults at him when you could have just ignored it.

Just be fucking normal.
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>>129262906
>t. hypocrite
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>>129262782
>>129262884
>>129262906
Thanks for the support, lad.
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>>129263273
You are welcome. Some people are so fucking weird.
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>>129263373
Why do you hate other people having fun?
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>>129263409
Your fun is insulting anons in their threads while they are having fun? You don't see the problem in that?
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>>129263373
In fairness, I'm not blameless. Pre-trip, I was known to be quite combative and would bait others. Her look is an acquired taste, but I refuse to call her ugly. Others did which irked me. At the end of last year, someone took it upon himself to impersonate me and make asteistic threads about her where the OP would deliberately overpraise her looks and skills to elicit harsh responses from anons. From that point on, I now use a trip to distinguish myself from that anon. If you see any Maggie Rogers threads made by other anons laying on the praise thicker than reasonable, it isn't by me.
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>>129263450
we all know it's you without your trip
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>>129263450
That doesn't justify being a prick
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>>129262782
This is either the magfag without his trip or it’s the emilyfag
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>>129263490
Imageboards by design invite caustic responses no matter how benign the OP may be. You get used to it. I've been posting steadfastly about Maggie for months now. Not gonna stop over some butthurt anons.
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>>129263530
>I've been posting steadfastly about Maggie for months now
Get help
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>>129263515
it's the magfag. he samefags a lot. the other schizo rarely leaves his thread.

t. schizo knower
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>>129263515
>>129263545
So now there's two of you or should I call samefag as well?
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>>129263530
>butthurt
You keep saying that kind of stuff, but it's just people justifiably treating you like shit. To characterize it as anything else is delusional and very weak.
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>>129263595
>projection
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>>129263515
They both suck
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>>129263666
>666
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>>129263595
Yet I'm still here.

>>129263562
Seeing that I have your attention, have you checked out any of the music I linked ITT? I think it would be worth your while.
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>>129263672
Trips confirm you are projecting. BTFO
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>>129263666
Sorry, what's the projection here? I'm the one people are treating like shit? I'm the one mischaracterizing the posts as "butthurt?"
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>>129263777
He doesn’t even know. All he does is troll
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>>129263777
>>129263819
samefag
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>>129263732
Do you know what that word means?
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>>129263900
Shut up you weirdo
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>>129263969
Go eat a cumsicle
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>>129263986
You would know how that tastes
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>bitch stopped responding

Concession accepted
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What are you two even arguing about?
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>>129264081
I took a shower retard
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>>129266120
kys
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>>129266394
NO U
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>>129267325
ugly slag
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>>129267680
You are the worst poster on this board
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>>129267750
Whatever you say.
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>>129230587
Didn't she say that she currently doesn't have a contract in the John Mayer talk?
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>>129269894
Never listened to that interview in full and I haven't turboscribed it.
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>>129270077
>Never listened to that interview in full
Yeah, don't bother. Two of the most insufferable people on the planet gassing each other up. The ending segment in which they were sharing lyric fragments from their Notes apps had me reconsidering Stalinism.
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>>129271076
Good Lord. From the 30 minutes Turboscribe did for free, it seems they were mostly talking shop but I imagine it gets much worse as the interview goes on. A full listen might make for quite the endurance test.

I forgive her bougieness.
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>>129271076
Holy shit, I skimmed around to the very end and she's got a couple howlers. Her new album is going to be about self-discovery, sadness and sex, and one particular lyric fragment reads like an ode to masturbation. This is either going to be trash or a glorious trainwreck you enjoy ironically. God willing, she'll have some taste and discretion to reel it in and flesh out the concept more but part of me has a bad feeling about this.

One thing I got from that interview is she isn't particularly hungry. She claims she's not striving to write hits and instead is just making music that feels right. It's the sort of humblebragging too many people engage in but it reveals that she knows she's uncompetitive.
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>>129272729
I especially like Maggie immediately shooting down the only half-decent line in the entire exchange (the one about a city boy with a cowboy hat).

>One thing I got from that interview is she isn't particularly hungry. She claims she's not striving to write hits and instead is just making music that feels right. It's the sort of humblebragging too many people engage in but it reveals that she knows she's uncompetitive.
I think she's canny enough to realize that, in retrospect, the "touched by the hand of Pharrell" boost was fumbled, bigly. (If not, her label has surely informed her.) Most people don't even dare to dream of such a thing happening to them, but she's been downplaying it in every subsequent soundbite, how she wasn't ready, how it shouldn't define her, etc.

By the time her debut LP appeared the moment (musically and culturally) had long passed, and the great public had little appetite for Maggie Rogers. Ironically, not pulling out all the stops and capitalizing on the Pharrell thing might have doomed her to becoming "the Pharrell chick" in people's minds!

She clearly thought the second album was going to make a way bigger splash than it eventually did, reintroducing herself as a big city baddie and all that shite. A last throw of the dice, but it's safe to say Surrender came up snake eyes.

I'm not surprised that venture sapped her of game and found her crawling towards the sign flashing Adult Contemporary. Like she said in the video she's in a comfortable place (when was she ever not?), but she must wonder sometimes: what might have been...

...which of course leads us into: *could* she have been? She's had three records with solid-to-shameless major label backing and still hasn't shown a hint of character. I don't doubt her passion for music, but, you know, there are people whose hearts burn like stars every Saturday karaoke night.
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>>129273036
>I think she's canny enough to realize that, in retrospect, the "touched by the hand of Pharrell" boost was fumbled, bigly. (If not, her label has surely informed her.) Most people don't even dare to dream of such a thing happening to them, but she's been downplaying it in every subsequent soundbite, how she wasn't ready, how it shouldn't define her, etc.

She has openly admitted this on the commentary track from Notes from the Archives:
>It's important to note that both The Echo, my first record, and Blood Ballet, my second record, lived on streaming services. These songs were out in the world. They were on Spotify. They were on Bandcamp where they still live. They came out as I was making them, but when I was graduating from college I had a double major in Music Production and in English, and I was working as a journalist and I thought I was going to be applying for jobs as a music journalist and I thought that if I had music out on streaming services it could hurt my credentials and hurt my objectivity for an editor's point of view. So, I went onto CD Baby or whatever the site was that I had independently distributed them through and I applied for all the songs to come down
>Some background on independent distributors is this music doesn't come down immediately. There is a sort of lag time where they process your request and eventually the music will come off the internet. Two days after I applied for this music to come down the video of me and Pharrell Williams at NYU went viral and suddenly I had five songs in the Viral Top 50 from these old records and then they just went inactive [laughs] and they just completely disappeared off the internet. So, I was on the phone with this company being like, "You have to get them back! Like, I can't do it." And it didn't work and so I sort of out of nowhere was given this blank slate. I was gonna get this shot at a career in music that I had always wanted, but it sort of looked different that I thought
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>>129273036
>it's safe to say Surrender came up snake eyes.

A bit of a shame because that album, if you ask me, is her magnum opus. I genuinely like that album and is my favorite Pop album of the 2020s. Discovering it in the right place and time (my gym) likely influenced my affinity for it especially after enduring the absolute slop Zoom Media plays regularly. "Want Want" felt very real in a miasmic stew of substandard slop;.
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>>129273152
Yeah, but that Joan Baez shit wasn't ever gonna cut it. I meant more in the sense of kicking Shellback out of whatever crack den he's hiding in and putting him on the red eye to JFK because there's a record to be made now now now.

Maggie's "shot" dripped out of the barrel, like in a bad dream.
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>>129273223
>Maggie's "shot" dripped out of the barrel

A cruel case of a missed opportunity, huh?

I take it you're the anon who compared her diction to a TED Talk and her whole weltanschauung being poorly imitated pop psychology. If you ask me, she's the ultimate example of a bougie prodigy who stumbled into the big leagues without ever intending it. Perhaps it's my own bias talking, but there's a certain purity to her that lights me right up. As mentioned, discovering her at my gym contextualizes my reaction to her music. Had I discovered her anywhere else, I'd probably be cold and distant.

I've given my opinions on Don't Forget Me which, if you ask me, is the definition of a missed opportunity on account of the concept being undercooked.
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21st century schizoid fag
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>>129273423
The other guy isn't me, but believe whatever you want.
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>>129273370
>I take it you're the anon
Rings a bell yeah.

>on account of the concept being undercooked
If MR and Capitol really have gone their separate ways, then the whole "written and recorded in a week" spiel sounds less like a creative hot streak and more like getting that last contractual obligation out of the way as quickly and painlessly as possible, with Rogers the consummate pro playing ball. Picrel, basically.
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>>129273671
Could very well be which is why the record feels too relaxed. Funnily enough, the critics ate it up which shocked me. For whatever you want to say about Surrender and even her own subreddit roasted the Harvard Divinity thesis tie-in, that album was very deliberately crafted and only a couple songs waste time. If your assessment is accurate, then that would explain why her last album felt so lackluster. She could have just been fulfilling the contractual obligation.

Anyway, we'll see what 2026 generates. She's already making the rounds with her colleagues in entertainment although it's curious that very few shout her out. She's also been sounding off on social media about ICE, so she'll undoubtedly chime in during the midterms. She namedrops all these big names in interviews including Olivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan, but I'm not aware of any who return the favor.
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This amount of talking to yourself or to chatgpt has got to be unhealthy.
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>>129274624
Believe whatever you want.
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>>129273671
What's revealing is that her recent appearance at We Are Moving the Needle's Resonator Award show where she performed a live tribute to Chaka Khan saw exactly one clip and one photo of her amid a sea of other candids from bigger names including Dave Grohl, Olivia Rodrigo and this year's winner Chappell Roan. To perform live and have under 5 pieces of media currently surfacing is damning.
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>>129168740
>>129276731
From the looks it, We Are Moving the Needle's media release will probably be gradual as this was just a by industry-heads-for-industry-heads award show. The fact organizers chose not to livestream any of the event reveals an intentional aversion to virality. She has appeared in two more photos, one by herself and one with Emily B. Lazar, but still only one clip of her performance. No statements, no interviews or anything else. Since Chappell was receiving the award, she obviously was going to command much of ceremony's spotlight, and in fairness, others have thus far had no in-depth interview. Either way, she's just being in the room at the moment.
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>>129277049
stfu
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>>129277134
NO U
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>>129277279
spammer
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>>129277560
I try in vain to have a conversation and some do humor me even when they're critical with me sharing some of the critiques, but when others just want to pour scorn, posting relevant pictures and webms make for better material.
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>>129277824
how did you escape isis?
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>>129278249
I was never in any part of the Islamic world. I'm a diaspora child.
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>>129277824
Just go to Twitter
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>>129280178
Honestly, this is what OP and the emilyfag should do. They’d get a lot more reach and positive interaction. The fact that they stay here just proves they want to troll the board and make it worse.
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>>129280552
I can't stand X / Twitter. Hated it then. Hate it now.
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Maggiefag son or popslut daughter?
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>>129283169
maggiefag son sounds like fate worse than death

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