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Love You For A Long Time

"The Soundtrack of Your Life"  | Day 14

"Love You For A Long Time"
by Maggie Rogers

It's Valentine's Day, so I figured I should probably go with one of the love songs on my list to mark the halfway point in "The Soundtrack of Your Life" . I featured Maggie Rogers on last year's playlist too. Her album Heard It in a Past Life was released in January 19 and spawned four singles. This track was a non-album single (and her most recent one) from November 2019.

I'm actually really curious to see what kind of a career Maggie Rogers is going to have. She's clearly a unique talent and comes up with some really great songs (case in point, this one), but she's also pretty sporadic with her releases (case in point, this is her most recent single). Since the end of 2019 she's done a cover of the Goo Goo Dolls' "Iris" with Phoebe Bridgers. She also released an album in December 2020 (Notes from the Archive: Recordings 2011-2016) that is "a compilation of songs written and recorded over the past ten years" including material from her previous two independent albums. And, the math error notwithstanding (ten years, but from 2011-2016 ), it's a little worrisome to be from a career longevity standpoint that she's already dipping into the unfinished older materials after all of one studio album.

Something tells me she's not going to be a terribly prolific artist over the coming years, but that's okay... maybe she'll be more like Adele and release an album every few years when she has gathered enough life experience/material (she is only 27). Let's just hope she doesn't end up like the George R.R. Martin or Patrick Rothfuss of pop/folk music, where we're all still waiting on a new album ten years from now and instead get a half dozen side projects that aren't the new album we're all waiting for. #FantasyNovelShade