As we patiently await the arrival of Maggie’s new album, we have her singles “Light On,” and “Fallingwater,” on loop. This budding star already has an impressive slew of accomplishments under her belt, and she’s just getting started! Rogers tells Billboard that despite thinking that the record was done several times, she decided to go back to the studio for “one last swing” before finalizing it. “Realistically, the song -- chord structure-wise -- is fairly simple, but the one thing that happens over the course of the whole song is there is this arpeggiator and the filter opens,” she says. But – Maggie feels right at home in front of her fans, and revealed that her latest single, “Light On,” is a sweet tribute to them! “It’s me saying to my fans I care about you, you have held me up through all of this, and I’ll be there for you.”. I was just so overwhelmed by the amount of energy in that space, and my photo in the dressing room at SNL, they have all of the photos of the artists that have played in the last couple years. If you leave the light on Then I'll leave the light on (Light on, light on, light on) And I am finding out There's just no other way That I'm still dancing at the end of the day If you leave the light on Then I'll leave the light on (Light on, light on, light on) Oh, if you leave the light on Then I'll leave the light on Oh, if you leave … Earlier this month, Maggie Rogers landed her first Billboard No. © Copyright 2020 HollywoodLife, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. 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It was thanks to a viral video with Pharrell Williams, 45, that Maggie first skyrocketed into the spotlight, a moment that she still acknowledges to this day. ‘Teen Mom 2’ Leah Messer Looks Gorgeous Pumpkin Picking In Minidress & Thigh-High Boots. “The filter on this arpeggiator starts closed and by the end of the song is really open and really free and really soaring and exciting and hopeful and optimistic. “It’s me saying to my fans I care about you, you have held me up through all of this, and I’ll be there for you.”, “I was in the car from the airport to the hotel before I started the first day of my North American tour and I was with my drummer, and I just started screaming, and I just yelled and yelled, because, you know, I don’t have a record out. I’m a new artist, but I’m a very new artist, and ‘SNL’ just…there is no greater honor,” she said. Have news, pics or video on a breaking news story? I’m a new artist, but I’m a very new artist, and ‘SNL’ just…there is no greater honor,” she said. My photo is in between Paul Simon and Lil Wayne which is just…maybe that perfectly describes me in some Universe,” she added with a laugh. 1 as "Light On" rose to the top of the Adult Alternative Songs chart. Singer-songwriter Maggie Rogers spoke to HL at Billboard's 2018 Women In Music event, & revealed the special meaning behind 'Light On.' In this week’s episode of “How It Went Down,” Rogers walks Billboard through how she created that chart-topping track from her debut album Heard It in a Past Life, and why she thinks that this song reflects how she has felt about music over the last couple of years. But – Maggie feels right at home in front of her fans, and revealed that her latest single, “Light On,” is a sweet tribute to them! “My very private life became very public really quickly, in a way where I didn't feel like I had any control over it.”, She reveals that “Light On” is about feeling out of control, adding that while she never had any doubts about her music itself, she came to realize that being a professional musician only meant “25 percent music and a whole lot of other stuff.”, “There's always a part of it that has to feel like work or something that's not entirely you,” she continues. Her highly-anticipated record, Heard It In A Past Life, is due out in January, and the singer caught up with HollywoodLife at the 2018 Billboard Women In Music Awards to reveal the meaning behind the album’s standout single, “Light On,” and more! “But I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to make this all feel like me.”. The entire world took notice of Maggie when she appeared on the Nov. 3 episode of Saturday Night Live, as the musical performer that night. Excited, bubbling, kind of timid at the beginning and then by the end, just really happy and ready.”. “I was in the car from the airport to the hotel before I started the first day of my North American tour and I was with my drummer, and I just started screaming, and I just yelled and yelled, because, you know, I don’t have a record out. The breakout star is well aware of the honor, and told HL about what went down in the moments after she got the call. https://www.billboard.com/.../maggie-rogers-video-interview-light-on Rogers says that the best way to explain how she feels is to look at the use of the synthesizer in the song. Sitting down with her friend Tom Percy (who makes music under the moniker Kid Harpoon), he asked her if there were any stories that she still wanted to tell through her music. Maggie Rogers, 24, rose to fame in 2016 with her hit song “Alaska,” and now, she’s finally ready to debut her first full-length album. 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You can watch the video above to hear the full story of how Maggie Rogers created “Light On,” and check out the song below. “Even walking in there for rehearsals, I walked in the first day and just started sobbing. “I like songs that you can have both the physical release and an emotional release,” she states, noting that her favorite kind of music is when you can both dance and cry to it. “Light On” is kind of the most vulnerable I’ve ever been in a song before, the singer says. All rights reserved.Billboard is part of MRC Media and Info, a division of MRC. I was just so overwhelmed by the amount of energy in that space, and my photo in the dressing room at SNL, they have all of the photos of the artists that have played in the last couple years. “Light On” is kind of the most vulnerable I’ve ever been in a song before, the singer says. “I felt pretty overwhelmed and a little scared for a while,” Rogers recalls. © 2020 Billboard. y career started very quickly with this video of me and Pharrell, hitting the internet the day I graduated from college, and I was really overwhelmed and kind of scared about all the pressure and expectations for a while,” the singer told us in the interview.