Maggie Szabo, proper priorities and nice music.
Whew! Tik Tok is again, a minimum of for now. As a music author, I like TikTok as a result of it provides me a possibility to see facets of artists I don’t get to see on different platforms, a detailed look into their lives. Certain, many artists put up intimate seems to be into their every day lives on FB and Insta, however Tik Tok simply appears to be made for tighter engagement.
Whereas there isn’t a precise quantity recognized for what number of musical artists put up on TikTok, the platform has change into a major drive within the music business, with quite a few artists using it to advertise their music and join with followers and folks like me. 1000’s of musicians have discovered success by TikTok, The attain of TikTok for artists is plain; the highest 10 most-followed music artists on TikTok have between 51 million and 94 million followers every. Over 70 artists broke by on the platform receiving main label offers in recent times.
A kind of that I observe on Tik Tok to maintain up along with her life, although she made the leap main success a while in the past, is Maggie Szabo.
Maggie is an LA-based Canadian pop singer who I first met 11 years in the past once I noticed her carry out her music “Tidal Waves and Hurricanes” at Hollywood’s Lodge Café. The music grabbed me and remains to be holding on a decade later.
Neither tidal waves and hurricanes – nor Covid nor motherhood, nor anything- have held her again. She was a part of the staff that wrote “SloMo” for Chanel which gained Third Place within the 2022 Eurovision. And he or she is a mother, a weight lifter, and a Multi-Platinum & Billboard #1 songwriter. Her music, “Uh Oh,” carried out with Troy Samson, is featured within the Netflix film “One in all Them Days”, one among over 50 notable placements in movie and tv, together with on platforms corresponding to Disney, ABC, NBC, and Netflix.
So why do I like to observe Szabo on Tic Tok. As a result of in addition to being an extremely gifted singer and songwriter (with a brand new music out “By no means Damage Me”) she is now a mom of two younger sons and has a discovered a work-life steadiness that most individuals by no means fairly obtain. I can watch all of it on Tik Tok,
I can watch her weight-lifting within the fitness center and observe her progress (higher than mine!). I can watch her within the recording studio with a child on her chest, belting out her newest music, I can see her figuring out within the again yard along with her husband, enjoying with the youngsters (I’ve met one among her sons and he’s a giant boy with a number of power), and see her recording in her most snug hoodie. I even obtained to see video of her packing to maneuver into a brand new home. (photograph. Maggie figuring out along with her son)
Certain, different entertainers put up “intimate” moments of themselves on Tik Tok and Insta and FB, however Maggie is not only one other entertainer with a cellphone. She is a distinctive mixture of stratospheric expertise with 532 million streams in complete final 12 months, and an excellent right down to earth human being who has her priorities precisely proper. – kids, household, and among the finest music you’ll ever hear.
What might be higher?
Hearken to her newest music, “By no means Damage Me” on Spotify and different main platforms; observe her on Instagram , FB and naturally, on Tick Tok
Patrick O’Heffernan
Banner photograph. Maggie Szabo on the Lodge Cafe the primary time I noticed her carry out, 11.6.13. Photograph by Justin Higuchi
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