For the Danish musician Mags, 2025 is gearing up to be the year of liberation, sex and sadness.
“This is my first album where I’m actually going to marry a woman that I’m engaged to and it feels radically honest to have a whole album about sapphic love,” Mags says, sitting behind a large blue painting in a Copenhagen café one chilly morning in August, as she readies her sophomore album “Herified,” out Friday.
The album has been in the works for three years, undergoing numerous edits and cuts that have reflected Mags’ journey to accepting her queerness. The final product is a pop, indie-rock sound with eight catchy tracks. She wrote 80 songs for the album and in the final cull, she cut out two tracks from the album that had an undertone of resentment. This album, she clarifies, is about