Maggie Rogers: going viral is a trap

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Maggie Rogers: going viral is a trap

Maggie Rogers: going viral is a trap

Apr 17, 202637m
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About This Episode

Ten years ago, Maggie Rogers was a senior at NYU, scrambling to finish a song for a music production class she was close to failing. The guest critic that week happened to be Pharrell Williams. She played him "Alaska," a track she'd written in about fifteen minutes. It is a bit of folk songwriting crossed with the electronic music she'd fallen for studying abroad. Pharrell told her he'd never heard anything that sounded like it. Someone was filming. The clip went viral, and it launched Maggie in

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