The rise of Maggie Rogers: From viral hit to the stage of SNL 

"Being a musician... sometimes its personal therapy and sometimes its public service"

ALSO CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE LIGHTING, EDITING, AND CINEMATOGRAPHY OF THIS INTERVIEW? Well done, CBC.

Confidence, honesty, and self-possession are the most beautiful human traits. Her parents must be so happy.

She is very free of conscious image crafting when she speaks. Very honest. It would be great if she could stay this way. I hope she can. Great interviewer too.

Amazing that someone my age 70 can enjoy this music so much but, she has such a passion for life and expressing herself l haven't heard since Carly Simon or, Carole King.

I just love this woman. Finally. Someone close to my age who makes stellar music that is derivative from the norm but who is also so intellectual. She motivates me to be more thoughtful and introspective and to talk more slowly, thinking before speaking. I just respect her so much as an artist and a person. Her new album is amazing. It makes me feel something from the nectar of my soul and that happens very rarely with an album but when it does, I devote all my thought to it. I just can’t get enough.

Just finished watching. It doesn't even feel like 23 minutes have gone by. I just get so entranced listening to her unique view of the world

I love when Tom does interviews like this. It feels like a conversation that flows so easily and you feel like you're hanging out with them having a drink, catching up.

I love when she speaks of the creative process and says where does it come from . Acknowledging that it isn’t the ego that makes beautiful art but the great mystery that we all have access to.

“I think being a musician, you know, sometimes it’s personal therapy sometimes it’s public service”

She is so freaking smart.

gives a very pure, unfiltered insight into maggie roger's process. really really fun to watch

That opening of Falling Water @ SNL was simply unforgettable. Hope to catch her live soon... great conversation as usual Mr. Power!

I am so ready for this record. She is a treasure.

I don't know but I rarely come across people like this. So natural, just being themselves. In the moment. Reminds me of my brother

this was such a chill interview. like 2 friends just hanging out and catching up on life.

This is just a fantastic conversation between two people who know music well, and love it with every ounce of their being. I’ve had these conversations well into the night with old friends. Best times of my life.

That Holes reference got me and then she had to EXPLAIN IT I'm dying

I love her passion for her music. She is the new age of music.

She’s legit. I like this girl.

shes so genuine and intelligent i love her

I Love Maggie and her Music. I have been writing since a very young girl, my music has been different, and I have always heard what I wanted for my song and let others take over the arrangements. Listening firstly to the masterclass with Pharell I was blown away. This woman is grounded, and speaks from her heart and soul no analyzing required, and writes and performs her way. That's how all of us should be as artists, free to be who you truly are, not who the industry thinks you should be. She is making the kind of music she wants to make, Maggie's Music. I am a huge fan on an Island surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the East Coast of Canada; Gander, Newfoundland . Loved Maggie's Ellen performance, it was a goosebump, excitement of the happy hormone as she went through the audience dancing and singing. Keep being yourself Maggie Rogers. Beautiful

She is so comfortable here and he's such a great interviewer.

omg, my favourite interviewer and favourite artist in the same video, I totally needed this now

She is so real and genuine and honest!

Surreal to see someone, a fellow being, be this self-conscious (in the utmost positive way) and hold no restraint in being vocal about it and not just that but also be beautifully articulate about it. As a 25-year-old myself crossing to 26, trying to figure out the puzzle and putting things together, it makes her just so even more relatable. Makes me want to simply ask her out :) A pleasure to watch her thrive in her art. And Maggie if you are reading this, keep going. Never stop doing this :)

I can so relate to Maggie and her music, wow, she is so natural, talented, humble, and open about all her music! As a writer myself, I totally get how she feels about her music, and particularly how she is inspired as a musician, I feel the same way too, in as much as I get inspired by things I see or feel in my life mentally or emotionally, and it is so refreshing to me to know another musician feels the same way too. Keep up the great work Maggie, your music and approach, and attitude is awesome and spot on! I think and feel sure that this is the way it should be, and Maggie has said it in this interview that it is a natural process, which for me is the very wonderful and organic process of music for me that I love the most! Thank you so much Maggie for sharing that!

That final part where she talks about what she felt during Fallingwater is so profound.

Maggie is such a unique person! I love her music.

What a special human being and terrific singer/songwriter.

You are so real and loved this interview.

You're always radiating such fantastic energy

What a soul, i wish her the best, keep moving - thx for this great album

Such an interesting interview. Sharing a perspective that most of us rarely get to see or would even think of. Maggie is definitely someone that I would enjoy just having over for dinner and sharing stories with. Very down to earth and in touch with reality of how her life is evolving!

She seems like such a kind person in every interview, performance and in her music. I discovered her music this year and I am so happy about it, because it is something else and I am so happy that she is getting more attention. Maggie is so honest, kind and she is so well behaved. Maggie is a person people should look up to.

she's wearing a '87 twins world series sweatshirt, amazing!

I've heard from people who have "met their goals" as they spoke of saying the journey was a lot more fulfilling than actually being there. Wonder if Maggie will feel that way one day. Im so happy for her!

Amazing, refreshingly unrehearsed young artist. Love her music and even more her personality.

I didn't know that I needed a Maggie cover of Pieces of Me by Ashlee Simpson but HERE WE ARE

I love her approach and perspective.

man what a beautiful soul she is deep and very humble but very wise for her age !!

This is a great interview! Love the respect and camaraderie here. So psyched to watch this wonderful human walk her path.

Not sure how I didn’t hear this before. Great convo. She’s a gem. You both are.

“felt like i was making space for the person i was becoming” ❤️

I really like her. she is so honest and smart when she talks and telling her feels in music

I’m late to the party- but glad to be here

What a delight interview!

I only discovered her last year, during her SNL performance and couldn’t get over her voice. I love seeing that video of her and Pharrell.

her musics really make me feel and cry. :(

Mannnnn what I would give to sit down in the pub and have a convo with her! Feels like everything she says paints an honest picture and conveys real intellectual meaning, not something you come across very often these days. The new record freakin SLAPS - big things are coming for this g!

My favourite new artist in years!

She is so amazing and so well spoken. She reminds me of Carol King. Tapestry and Heard It In a Past Life are like on the same level of greatness.

A beautiful talented soul!🌸

She’s brilliant, refreshing, free-spirited, talented & wise beyond her years. In love with her music! YES!

How special is Maggie.. such an awesome human being

What a beautiful and talented person. Awesome

Great interview, Maggie has such an amazing view point and Tom does a great interview. Can we all go to a house party together?

self-aware, emotional, beautiful soul. i love her

I love this so much.

Someone please remind Maggie that her experiences on this planet will never be 100% unique, and that's why it's so important that she share them. We hear her music and something in us understands her feeling. So of course we want to be her friends :D

I love her. She's so smart and sensitive. She's here to save pop music and whisk my heart away and I'm 100% here for the ride. Strap me in bois

She's so humbly FAB

18:55 that was so powerful and mindfucked me for a minute. I totally understand what she’s saying and if I was a performer, I’d feel the same.

Something so real and intelligent about her that makes me so into her

Yes Maggie, I got your Holes reference. We should be friends!

Her energy has grown since the last interview. It's amazing. Love it.

Wow! Not only is she absolutely gorgeous she’s incredibly intelligent. Not that you can’t have them both but I’m just astounded by both

I love this girl

She is describing exactly how I feel about novels, which is including (or at least) thinking about the reader as you write. I never realized that pop music as a constraint on the singer was a thing, the same way as the idea that writing IS rhetorical, which it is. An while you certainly have to find yourself in your work YOU are as much shaped by your constraints as you are freed by them.

her laugh 🥺

Great artist!

She radiates self love and is an advocate for others

She is that sincerely natural - not popular - girl in school you achingly wish would notice you but never does, same as she never fully recognizes in her raw authenticity how beautiful she really is.

YO, Maggie Rogers covering Ashlee Simpson would be a dream come true. Even just half assing that was amazing.

What an incredible interviewer. Give that man a raise

Amazing

i love her

She's the best!

can this just be an annual thing?? PLEASE

I love Maggie :)

I like that she hints that "music comes THRU you," that there's no real ownership when something creative "arrives."

Her eloquence is not at all surprising given her incredible writing!

Please Maggie , don't change this authenticity that you have for any reason

This is what genius looks like, you are watching it in real time. We don't deserve her, but we have her anyway. That's how come the future will better than the past. No other generation has had her to help us. Or I'm wrong. Listen to her & you'll know if I'm right.

Humble Spirit

I could tell and so did others, she totally forgot where she was in the falling water performance on SNL. That’s when you know the music comes from her soul.

She is too cool for school. Im in love 😁

He's such a great interviewer

I hope she can stay reasonably sane. She is going to be a global superstar no doubt.

Got my shovel, shoes full of sand. Check out the tag, the name's CAVEMAN! :)

Music: "Sometimes it's personal therapy and sometimes it's public service.." Fascinating way to think about it.

GIRL I GOT UR HOLES REFERENCE. I got chu.

Hey Tom, Maggie has her SNL performances on her YT channel. Do you get that channel in Canada? :p

She is so cool.

God, I love Tom Power. And Maggie.

I need that sweatshirt! I can't find it anywhere ugh!

The holes joke is why maggie is my soulmate

Some of the comments I’m reading on here using words like genuine, honest , real and authentic etc are a bit strange to me and they just over simplify people. Maggie seem to be naturally a person who have an open type personality/ bubbly etc which is great , but some people (including some artists) simply are just more naturally reserved , graded and less comfortable with sharing with strangers outside of their art , and I don’t think that mean they’re manufactured , contrived or not authentic or whatever people call it . It’s simply people having different personalities and everyone should just be whoever they are . Not one of them make you more authentic or “real “then the other , authenticity is being you and doing the you you feel at that moment.

She's dope and humble and I want to get a coffee with her

She's the definition of adorable.