On the surface, Maggie Rogers represents everything I loathe about modern female performers over the last 30 years. She's a progressive poster child who stumps for the Democratic Party, cites feminist concepts like scripture and maintains a liberal middle class audience bent on transforming America into a political monoculture. I should want her to suffer yet I don't. For me, she's one of the few popular performers to separate the art from the artist.
Surrender might be the best album of the 2020s on account of its range and emotional depth. Energetic and upbeat songs like "Shatter", "Want Want" and "Overdrive" compliment the more relaxed songs like "Be Cool". Other songs like "Anywhere With You" and "Begging for Rain" drip with melancholy. Rest assured, the album is far from monotonous. In fact, they're quite dynamic and carry the whole album. What separates her from other Indie darlings is that her songs feel real and her themes pure without being kitsch or trite. Her songs inspire permanence and building futures.
She feels pure and real.