To my new readers, welcome! I'm so happy you stumbled across my little fanfic. My goal is to get TMUA2 finished by the end of 2022, lol. To my Taron fans, never fear, I AM going to finish The Make-Up Artist 2, I've just been kicking this story around in my head for a while and needed to get it out. This is a work of fiction and in no way represents anything real. Hayden Skye and Kathryn Buchanan - CharacterĪ fictional romance loosely based on a famous British Pop Star.Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings.It seems that by reuniting with her old work, she is recentering and finding the balance between the Rogers we know and the Rogers she knew.BlueJeanBaby1189 Fandoms: Fine Line - Harry Styles (Album), One Direction (Band), British Singers RPF, Music RPF, Pop Music RPF Notes from the Archive: Recordings from 2011-2016 is a sign of promise for Rogers’ work to come. There are moments that are lackluster in their composition and lyricism, like “Symmetry” and “Anybody,” but they serve to highlight her growth and artistic evolution. “Wolves,” also from her high school days, is magnificent in its blending of banjo and strings. Rogers has a worldliness and wisdom to her, even on “Kids Like Us,” which was written before her 18th birthday, she is able to reflect on how we view life and youth from different ages. It’s as if her songs are written in a journal with no prior notion that you might hear or relate to it. There’s an honesty to her writing that’s comforting. “Together,” from the same era and similar in its dreamlike haze, depicts the moment of ambiguity before the possible end of a relationship, as she grasps on to what is and what could be. “Steady Now,” one of the more recent songs from her shoegaze era, is similar to “Back In My Body,” capturing the moment in which the chaos and uncertainty about oneself subsides. Even since high school, Rogers has excelled at capturing specific moments in life and relationships, especially when they are at their most uncertain. It's what will bring you back to certain songs. What’s clear is that while her sound may have gotten lost along the way, Rogers’ voice has been there all along. What happened after she signed to Capitol Records that suppressed what made her so unique? Williams himself was drawn to “Alaska” in the first place because it sounded like nothing he had heard before. The deeper into the album you get, the more her folk roots come out, and the more confusing Heard It In A Past Life becomes. Hence, why only one listen might just be enough. With that being said, many of the songs are under developed and wouldn’t be released as is by her label under different circumstances, but this record helps put Rogers’ music into perspective. Starting right before the viral video and ending with high school Maggie, we see her in full form, getting a bird’s eye view of her evolution as an artist. It flows reverse chronologically with Rogers interrupting throughout to explain the different projects and eras showcased. Notes from the Archive: Recordings from 2011-2016 would be a strange release if Rogers’ intentions weren’t so clear. This is an album you might listen through once and never pick up again, and that is okay. Rogers’ latest release, Notes from the Archive: Recordings from 2011-2016, features some of her past work from four different projects, but with this record, Rogers reclaims her sound and introduces listeners to that first girl, whom she never meant to keep a secret in the first place. Then, there’s the Rogers we know, who was just starting to experiment with electronic music when her fame hit, and her music became beloved, yet over-produced, with many of her songs fighting to become alt-pop hits. There’s the folksy banjo-playing girl from rural Maryland, who made music in a high school classroom and the laundry room of her dorm. Ever since that video went viral, she’s been split in two. To call Heard It In A Past Life her first album erases all of her work before it, but that’s the fight Rogers has been fighting. At rapid speed, she signed to Capitol Records, put out her 2017 EP, Now That the Light is Fading, and her 2019 album, Heard It In A Past Life, all before headlining her own tour. When Maggie Rogers played her song “Alaska” for Pharrell Williams during a master class at NYU, his reaction went viral-and so did she. Tasty Tracks: Steady Now, Together, Resonant Body
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