Maggie Rogers
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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I think at its core, music has always been the most sacred and most spiritual thing that I've ever been a part of.
Cruising on the bridge in your great Cadillac, yeah, they get seasick. Walking on the water like they're stepping stones, but every little thing's up for taking. Oh, it makes me want to sing, my heart's breaking. Oh.
Thanks for having me.
Massively so. I mean, I think in being able to sort of inhabit a character, I was able to weave this tapestry of all of these different memories throughout really my 20s. I just turned 30. And I was sort of able to tell maybe even a more real version of the truth in telling fiction. Over the course of writing this record, this character who's like a...
25-ish year old girl who's leaving home and sort of going on this road trip through the American Southwest kind of appeared in my mind. And I was able to write the songs in sequence. The album is sequenced in the order that I wrote the songs in.
And I was sort of writing them like scenes in a movie, you know, that takes place over like 36 hours and has a very like Thelma and Louise-esque ride to it. And yeah, and it was just helpful structure.
They're definitely woven through. I have no problem revealing, you know, because I mean, yeah, I've been doing that for a long time. I'm also just sort of like professionally vulnerable and just naturally very comfortable with that. But I think it's the feelings in all of these songs are very real.
I think that was really true when I started writing songs. I started writing songs kind of at the end of middle school and the beginning of high school. And it was very much a like one-to-one diary entry directive where I would write songs as a form of like self-soothing therapy and sort of play the song until I felt a new way.
And it was also at this time where I was experiencing so much in my life for the first time. And it was 15 years ago now. And I think now, I think about songwriting a lot as a form of archiving. I mean, obviously, I'm a nostalgic person if my record is called Don't Forget Me. But there's so much beauty in life and so much detail and so much memory.
And I do worry about forgetting it all or being able to, like, I get my arms so full of detail that I don't drop anything. And putting it into my art feels like one way of being able to just keep holding it.
I think it's really a part of who I am. Like, my dad always tells this story of the night I turned five, he found me sobbing. And I was just, like, completely overwhelmed at the fact that I would never be four again.
Yeah, hey, yeah, I do. I do write about that. And it is just, I think this idea of...
time and the way that it slips through your fingers and not being able to go back I mean I think not to talk more about live performance and why I love it but it kind of is because the thing about being on stage is the second it's awesome and you're like something is really happening here it's gone and you can't hold it you can just be present in it and hope that you remember it and so anyway yeah I'm a nostalgic person
Yeah, that's important to sort of note that I didn't go to any kind of seminary. I didn't train to be a priest.
So my master's degree is in religion and public life. So this program that I went to was specifically for people who don't work in religion, who want a greater understanding of religion and the way it works in the world to be able to inform their sort of non-religious life.
And I found as I was performing and on stage that people were asking me for answers to questions I felt really unqualified to answer. Like I found myself in this unconventional ministerial position without undergoing any of the training. Like people were asking me for my perspective on music. Politics, suicide, people were asking me to perform marriages, depression. And I was like, I'm 24.
Like, I have no idea. I was in no way any more qualified than anybody else to have an answer on these things. The thing that I really spent time learning about and being an expert in was music. But people didn't even really ask me about music much. And even that I was still early in learning and still am. And so...
The program, it was just really nice to have some quiet time to think about what I believed and really thinking about, you know, in this time that is more divisive than it's ever been, how do people come together and how do people create meaning? And I think at its core, music has always been the most sacred and most spiritual thing that I've ever been a part of.
Whether it's being in the crowd at a show at an early age or being on stage with my band when we're all jamming or playing music together and we just hit that right thing all at the same time. Like something was telepathically communicated. That to me, it's the closest thing I've ever felt to something divine. And so a lot of what I did was study religious theory.
and study the sort of like technical philosophical ways that people think about and talk about religion and the structure of religion. And then I applied it to music and to touring and to festivals and used all of that to sort of create this system for myself to navigate some of these bigger questions I was having about ethics of having a public platform and sustainability within my career?
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