This 2015 CMA Fest performer had a song that cracked the top 60 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart and has been streamed more than 1.6 million times on Spotify. She had a video that debuted at Number 1 on Great American Country’s Top 20 Countdown. On this episode we get the exclusive on songs she hasn’t even released yet, playing two of her new tracks as she works toward an EP release later this year, which is being done in both L.A. and Nashville. She talks about re-branding herself, a recent performance with Luke Bryan, Lee Brice, and Randy Houser, as well as work she’s doing as a producer.
“In the last ten months I think I’ve written more songs than I had in all the years prior to that.”
“You stockpile all this inspiration when you travel all over the place and you’re exposed to all these different things and kind of go back to your home base and write!”
“I went through this re-branding process where I was like, ‘Okay, what kind of artist do I want to be for the rest of my life,’ and that resulted in my re-branding myself as Maggie Rose… and I got to kind of play with my image and do stuff that was more comprehensive as an artist approach, instead of just as a vocalist, and think about the songs I wanted to write and what message did I want to send. I wanted to be empowering to my female audience and I wanted to represent this certain idea.”
“Country radio just could not deal with the idea of two similar songs by two female artists emerging at the same time. Yet, my male counterparts all were singing different songs – they were similar subjects within the songs – but, they were all kind of getting through.”
“I kind of wonder if I knew how hard those two years were gonna be if I would’ve had the courage to do it.”
“I think if I had told you what my plan was – when I was 19 – and you did an A and B of what I projected to happen and what happened, I would laugh at how off I was.”
“You can never be like, ‘Oh, this song is finished.’ It’s just like knowing when to step away from a song, kind of like a painting, it’s the last brush stroke, it’s the last whatever you put on the song.”
“If I ever do get anxiety about the production process I just remind myself that nothing will go out that we don’t love.”
"Super Cool"
"Inevitable"