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This is Fresh Air, I'm Tanya Mosley. While in college at

NYU getting a degree in music production, singer-songwriter Maggie Rogers met

Ferrell Williams and during his visit to her class, Ferrell heard an early version of Maggie's song, Alaska, and was stunned by it.

The interaction from a video went viral and propelled her to fame.

She has a new album, her third, called Don't Forget Me. She spoke with

our producer Sam Brigger. Here's Sam. I got to see Maggie Rogers performed when she was last here in

Philadelphia. She was last here in Philadelphia.

She was playing at a theater in a series of smaller shows she was doing called Box Office Week.

The day of each show Rogers would be selling the tickets herself, per person at the venue meeting the fans

that lined up early in the morning. Rogers was interested in pairing down the concert

experience to something more intimate, personal, and less corporate.

In the fall, she will be playing arenas,

but Box Office Week is the kind of thoughtful concept you might imagine

from this singer-songwriter.

In 2021, burnout from the Road, Maggie Rogers took a break and got a master's

degree from Harvard Divinity School, where she explored public gatherings and the ethics of power

and pop culture. She's been trying to find a way to make the life of a

touring musician more sustainable. Let's hear a track for Maggie Rogers' new album, Don't

Forget Me. This is so sick of dreaming. So you think you're on the right track.

Cruising on the bridge in your great Cadillac,

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