# Don't Forget Me (album)
**Don't Forget Me** is the third studio album by the American singer-songwriter [Maggie Rogers](https://www.edgepedia.org/maggie-rogers), released on April 12, 2024 through [Capitol Records](https://www.edgepedia.org/capitol-records) in the United States and [Polydor Records](https://www.edgepedia.org/polydor-records) in the United Kingdom[1](https://www.nme.com/news/music/maggie-rogers-announces-third-album-dont-forget-me-releases-new-single-listen-3584513) • [2](https://shopuk.maggierogers.com/products/dont-forget-me-cd). It followed *Heard It in a Past Life* (2019) and *Surrender* (2022), and it was the first project Rogers completed after finishing a master's degree in religion and public life at Harvard Divinity School[3](https://music.apple.com/us/album/dont-forget-me/1727422029). The record was written and recorded in five days with the producer Ian Fitchuk, with most tracks captured as first takes[4](https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/maggie-rogers-announces-her-third-studio-album-dont-forget-me) • [5](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/maggie-rogers-dont-forget-me/).
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Artist | Maggie Rogers, Maryland-born singer-songwriter, Grammy Award-nominated for Best New Artist in 2020[2](https://shopuk.maggierogers.com/products/dont-forget-me-cd) • [6](https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/maggie-rogers-don-t-forget-me-new-album-interview-b1150553.html) |
| Release | April 12, 2024; Capitol Records (US) and Polydor (UK); ℗ 2024 Debay Sounds LLC under exclusive license to UMG Recordings[2](https://shopuk.maggierogers.com/products/dont-forget-me-cd) • [3](https://music.apple.com/us/album/dont-forget-me/1727422029) |
| Length and format | 10 songs, 35 minutes[3](https://music.apple.com/us/album/dont-forget-me/1727422029) |
| Recording | Written over five days, two songs a day, three days in December 2022 and two in January 2023; most recordings are first takes originally meant as demos[4](https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/maggie-rogers-announces-her-third-studio-album-dont-forget-me) |
| Producer | Ian Fitchuk, who co-wrote the title track with Rogers[5](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/maggie-rogers-dont-forget-me/) • [7](https://www.allmusic.com/album/release/dont-forget-me-mr0006299802) |
| Singles | "Don't Forget Me" (title track, shared at announcement) and "So Sick of Dreaming" (lead single)[1](https://www.nme.com/news/music/maggie-rogers-announces-third-album-dont-forget-me-releases-new-single-listen-3584513) • [5](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/maggie-rogers-dont-forget-me/) |
| Rogers' element framing | If *Heard It in a Past Life* is air and *Surrender* is fire, *Don't Forget Me* is earth[8](https://apnews.com/article/20aa39823a76f3a419c792d47a673ed4) |
## Background
Rogers came to prominence in 2016 when a video of [Pharrell Williams](https://www.edgepedia.org/pharrell-williams) reacting to her song "Alaska" during a New York University class went viral, and her debut album *Heard It in a Past Life* earned a Best New Artist nomination at the 2020 [Grammy Awards](https://www.edgepedia.org/grammy-awards)[6](https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/maggie-rogers-don-t-forget-me-new-album-interview-b1150553.html). After burnout and the pandemic, she paused music to study at [Harvard Divinity School](https://www.edgepedia.org/harvard-divinity-school), then built a studio on top of her parents' garage in Maine and released the rock-oriented *Surrender* in 2022[6](https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/maggie-rogers-don-t-forget-me-new-album-interview-b1150553.html).
The five-day writing session that produced *Don't Forget Me* happened because, in Rogers' words, she "wasn't trying to make a record"; the songs were originally intended as a collection of demos to be re-recorded with a band, and the speed created what she described as a kind of magic[4](https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/maggie-rogers-announces-her-third-studio-album-dont-forget-me). She told The Standard that it felt like coming back to making music at 16, 17, and 18, and that stylistically it "really sounds like coming home"[6](https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/maggie-rogers-don-t-forget-me-new-album-interview-b1150553.html).
## Recording and songwriting
The album keeps Rogers' voice front and center and draws on a range of touchstones: Fitchuk's country-leaning style has been compared to [Kacey Musgraves](https://www.edgepedia.org/kacey-musgraves)' *Golden Hour*, while songs such as "It Was Coming All Along" and "If Now Was Then" echo the Y2K pop-rock of [Michelle Branch](https://www.edgepedia.org/michelle-branch), Natalie Imbruglia, and [Sixpence None the Richer](https://www.edgepedia.org/sixpence-none-the-richer)[5](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/maggie-rogers-dont-forget-me/). Slant Magazine heard the radio-friendly pop-rock of early-2000s Sheryl Crow or Jewel, with the title track looking back further to 1970s soft rock in the manner of Carole King[9](https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/maggie-rogers-dont-forget-me-album-review/).
**Themes.** Rogers said the record was made for the car, a "Sunday driving record" meant for singing along alone, and that she created a character who led her through the album rather than a snapshot of her exact life, with real truths woven into the stories[8](https://apnews.com/article/20aa39823a76f3a419c792d47a673ed4). The songs deal with memory and regret: the title track asks a partner who might be gone next week simply to remember her, "The Kill" flips the pronouns of a doomed relationship in its second chorus, and "So Sick of Dreaming" recounts a man standing Rogers up at the bar to watch the Knicks play instead, dryly noting "and by the way, the Knicks lost"[9](https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/maggie-rogers-dont-forget-me-album-review/) • [10](https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/albums/maggie-rogers-dont-forget-me-lively-reflective-retreat). "So Sick of Dreaming" also broadened her writing beyond personal experience; Rogers said it was based on a story a friend had told her the night before[3](https://music.apple.com/us/album/dont-forget-me/1727422029).
The album closes with the title track, whose last words are "Don't forget me"[11](https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/4/23/maggie-rogers-dont-forget-me-album-review/).
## Release and promotion
Rogers announced the album on February 8, 2024, sharing the title track the same day[1](https://www.nme.com/news/music/maggie-rogers-announces-third-album-dont-forget-me-releases-new-single-listen-3584513). The release came two weeks before her 30th birthday, which she described as "this big ode to my 20s"[12](https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/music/maggie-rogers-dont-forget-me-interview-38583/). In interviews around the release she welcomed the way the new songs united crowds in performance and said she looked forward to fostering that joyous, present environment on tour[8](https://apnews.com/article/20aa39823a76f3a419c792d47a673ed4). A CD edition was sold through her official store[2](https://shopuk.maggierogers.com/products/dont-forget-me-cd).
## Critical reception
Reviews were generally positive, with reviewers divided on how the record sits beside its predecessors. Pitchfork's Claire Shaffer called it Rogers' strongest yet, "the sound of a wise, clear-eyed, melodious prodigy coming into her own voice," and praised the change from earlier albums where the songwriting could feel subordinate to her ornate compositions[5](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/maggie-rogers-dont-forget-me/). Slant Magazine described it as a breezy, contemplative soundtrack for the open road and noted that the songs are diaristic but rarely confessional[9](https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/maggie-rogers-dont-forget-me-album-review/). The Independent, which scored it 8.0, framed it as "a cumulative stock-take of good times as well as the once secure things that have given way" and likened the feel to windows-down soft rock recalling [Fleetwood Mac](https://www.edgepedia.org/fleetwood-mac)[13](https://anydecentmusic.com/review/13922/Maggie-Rogers-Dont-Forget-Me.aspx) • [14](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/maggie-rogers-dont-forget-me-review-b2526527.html). The Line of Best Fit gave it 8/10, calling it a lively and reflective retreat with "some of the most exhilaratingly free and honest work of her career so far"[10](https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/albums/maggie-rogers-dont-forget-me-lively-reflective-retreat).
Critics less taken with the album included Riff Magazine, whose review was headlined with the judgment that the record was "disappointingly easy to forget"[15](https://riffmagazine.com/album-reviews/maggie-rogers-dont-forget-me/). The Winnipeg Free Press, by contrast, called it "easily the most relaxed, unself-conscious album of Rogers' brief career"[16](https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/music/2024/04/19/album-reviews-20).
## Place in Rogers' catalog
Rogers has described her three studio albums as elements: *Heard It in a Past Life* is air, *Surrender* is fire, and *Don't Forget Me* is earth, a categorization she says helps give context to records that are reflections on different periods of her life[8](https://apnews.com/article/20aa39823a76f3a419c792d47a673ed4). In contrast to *Surrender*, a collection she described as a release of pent-up pandemic energy made to be experienced with a crowd, *Don't Forget Me* leans more heavily on acoustic sounds and is quieter in mood[8](https://apnews.com/article/20aa39823a76f3a419c792d47a673ed4).
## Track listing
1. "It Was Coming All Along"
2. "Drunk"
3. "So Sick of Dreaming"
4. "The Kill"
5. "If Now Was Then"
6. "I Still Do"
7. "On & On & On"
8. "Never Going Home"
9. "All The Same"
10. "Don't Forget Me"[2](https://shopuk.maggierogers.com/products/dont-forget-me-cd)
## References
1. [Maggie Rogers announces third album 'Don't Forget Me', NME](https://www.nme.com/news/music/maggie-rogers-announces-third-album-dont-forget-me-releases-new-single-listen-3584513)
2. [Don't Forget Me CD, Maggie Rogers official shop (Polydor)](https://shopuk.maggierogers.com/products/dont-forget-me-cd)
3. [Don't Forget Me, Album by Maggie Rogers, Apple Music](https://music.apple.com/us/album/dont-forget-me/1727422029)
4. [Maggie Rogers announces her third studio album, Don't Forget Me, The Line of Best Fit](https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/maggie-rogers-announces-her-third-studio-album-dont-forget-me)
5. [Maggie Rogers: Don't Forget Me Album Review, Pitchfork, by Claire Shaffer](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/maggie-rogers-dont-forget-me/)
6. [Where exactly has Maggie Rogers been?, The Standard](https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/maggie-rogers-don-t-forget-me-new-album-interview-b1150553.html)
7. [Don't Forget Me, Release Info, AllMusic](https://www.allmusic.com/album/release/dont-forget-me-mr0006299802)
8. [Maggie Rogers on 'Don't Forget Me,' the album she wrote for a Sunday drive, AP News](https://apnews.com/article/20aa39823a76f3a419c792d47a673ed4)
9. [Maggie Rogers 'Don't Forget Me' Review, Slant Magazine](https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/maggie-rogers-dont-forget-me-album-review/)
10. [Maggie Rogers: Don't Forget Me Review, The Line of Best Fit](https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/albums/maggie-rogers-dont-forget-me-lively-reflective-retreat)
11. ['Don't Forget Me' Review, The Harvard Crimson](https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/4/23/maggie-rogers-dont-forget-me-album-review/)
12. [Maggie Rogers: 'In fiction, you can tell some of the greatest truths about your life', Rolling Stone UK](https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/music/maggie-rogers-dont-forget-me-interview-38583/)
13. [Don't Forget Me by Maggie Rogers reviews, Any Decent Music](https://anydecentmusic.com/review/13922/Maggie-Rogers-Dont-Forget-Me.aspx)
14. [Maggie Rogers, Don't Forget Me review, The Independent, by Helen Brown](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/maggie-rogers-dont-forget-me-review-b2526527.html)
15. [ALBUM REVIEW: Maggie Rogers' 'Don't Forget Me' is disappointingly easy to forget, Riff Magazine](https://riffmagazine.com/album-reviews/maggie-rogers-dont-forget-me/)
16. [Album reviews, Winnipeg Free Press](https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/music/2024/04/19/album-reviews-20)
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