Meet Maggie Lindemann, the Gen Z Pop Star Who’s Not Afraid to Call Out The Haters

Phoenix Magazine Cover Feature

03 Sep 2017

“Fuck your ribbons and your pearls, I’m not just a pretty girl.” Throughout the summer of seventeen Maggie Lindemann’s pop song Pretty Girl has been blaring out from radios in the bedrooms of teenage girls across the globe. A confident declaration of self-identify against the detached world of Instagram and being rated on appearance.

Maggie grew up in a small town in Dallas. “It’s kind of like a tight community, I mean not everyone knows everyone, but everyone knows someone who knows someone. We were all tied together,” she tells me over the phone from LA, where she now lives. She moved there three years ago aged 16 after she was discovered by Gerald Tennison (Becky G, Juicy J, Zara Larsson), a former Sony Music Entertainment record label executive.

Tennison had seen Maggie singing her ‘bad’ version of the American national anthem on Instagram and could see her potential through the purposefully botched notes. When LA came calling, relocating was a no-brainer. “Gosh it was so easy, I don’t really have many friends, they weren’t real nice to me in school. Moving was definitely really easy for me.” I ask if she was ever a victim of bullying and she replies, “yeah, definitely.” She felt like she didn’t fit it.

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