History Music / MegMyers

* BareYourMidriff: Well, when you have abs like her, you might as well. This is best shown in the music video for "Lemon Eyes".

Meg Myers is an American alternative something musician. Born in Tennessee but based in Los Angeles, she plays bass, sings and fronts a band that creates songs that are metal-influenced pop rock tracks that have a heavy undercurrent of lyrical darkness. Speaking of herself "I came from this grunge, punk-rock background, but I always wanted to write catchy pop songs" she's been called [[JustForFun/XMeetsY a mix of]] Music/{{Nirvana}} and Music/FionaApple. She's had a couple of singles that did okay on the alternative charts.

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: While not the most extreme example, her exact genre is hard to pin down, it can be tonally very extreme, but with very light choruses and then a traditional rawk-ish guitar solo. And she goes straight up electronic on "A Bolt From The Blue".

* LoveIsLikeReligion: "Funeral" is a twisted love song that says, "You came in like a God from above."

* CoverVersion: [[Music/KateBush "Running Up That Hill"]].

* SelfBackingVocalist: In some songs, such as "Make a Shadow" and "Done," she harmonizes with herself.

! Tropes of Desire

* CarefulWithThatAxe: Meg is so small she needs a special, cut-down bass to play, and her screams are probably the main reason she gets called metal-influenced. At the end of"Heart Heart Head", she breaks into [[LastNoteNightmare sudden tortured screaming]].

* AntiLoveSong: Pretty much 90% of her discography is this. "Parade" is most notable, for sounding sweet as syrup but painting a really twisted relationship.

* CarefulWithThatAxe: Meg's screams are probably the main reason she gets called metal-influenced.

* IntercourseWithYou: "Desire", as the title suggests, is this, crossed heavily with ObsessionSong.

-->''Sorry that I lost our love, without a reason why\\
Sorry that I lost our love, it really hurts sometimes''

* ExecutiveMeddling: "Numb" is a song explicitly about studio interference in her career. "If you force it it won't come."
* GreenEyedMonster: "Lemon Eyes" is her comforting her lover that there's no need to be jealous.

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: While not the most extreme example, her exact genre is heard to pin down, it can be tonally very extreme, but with very light choruses and then a traditional rawk-ish guitar solo. And she goes straight up electronic on "A Bolt From The Blue".
* [[ObfuscatingStupidity Obfuscating Simplicity]]: Meg has said that she's capable of playing more complex and difficult bass riffs than she actually uses, but that such virtuosity isn't needed for the songs she's making.

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* AmbiguouslyChristian: While she was raised as a Jehovah's Witness, she doesn't talk much about her childhood or religion, beyond saying that she's cool with her parents...now. Her music is quite popular with the ex-Witness community, who find some sense of kinship in her music.

--->''I really want you to find\\

There's no love to survive''

* CuteButCacophonic: Meg is so small she needs a special, cut-down bass to play, but she can scream.

-->''And I can't stop this pain, it only grows\\

And I can't fight this feeling anymore''

-->''Baby, I wanna fuck you\\
I wanna feel you in my bones\\
Boy, I'm gonna love you\\
I'm gonna tear into your soul''
* IWasYoungAndNeededTheMoney: Modeled for American Apparel in her younger days.
* LastNoteNightmare: All of [[ObsessionSong "Heart Heart Head"]] is pretty creepy, but the tortured screaming in the end takes it up another notch.

--->''I'd die for just one kiss''
** "Desire" is agressive and very [[IntercourseWithYou physical]].
--->''Yeah I gotta hurt you, I gotta hear it from your mouth\\

I'm gonna lay you in the ground''
* SillyLoveSongs: "A Bolt From The Blue" is a straight up love-song, no cynicism, no darkness, just a song about falling in love with someone.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Meg is certainly not shy about showing skin.

* WhoWearsShortShorts: Her traditional music video and performance garb usually includes a pair of these.

--->''I feel the air retreat; I know you're here with me''

* IntercourseWithYou: "Desire", as the title suggests, is this... crossed heavily with ObsessionSong.

** "Heart Heart Head" is this hardcore.

** "Desire" is this more than an IntercourseWithYou track.

* LyricalDissonance: "Lemon Eyes" is one of the harder Meg tracks, but it's one of the more happy and idealistic songs, as she's trying to tell her lover that there's no need to be jealous.

* BrokenBird: "I Really Want You To Hate Me".
-->''I really want you to find\\

* ConceptMusicVideo: "Sorry". A bitter BreakUpSong is accompanied by the video of her smashing everything in a house where she used to live with a club.

* ObsessionSong: "Heart Heart Head" is this hardcore, "Desire" too is this more than an IntercourseWithYou track.

Meg Myers is an American alternative something musician. Born in Tennessee but based in Los Angeles, she plays bass, sings and fronts a band that creates songs that are metal-influenced pop rock tracks that have a heavy undercurrent of lyrical darkness. Speaking of herself "I came from this grunge, punk-rock background, but I always wanted to write catchy pop songs" she's been called [[XMeetsY a mix of]] Music/{{Nirvana}} and Music/FionaApple. She's had a couple of singles that did okay on the alternative charts.

* BareYourMidriff: Well, when you have abs like her, you might as well, this is best shown in the music video for "Lemon Eyes".

* CuteButCacophonic: Meg is so small she needs a special, cut-down bass to play, she can scream.

Meg Myers is an American alternative something musician. Born in Tennessee but based in Los Angeles, she plays bass, sings and fronts a band that creates songs that are metal-influenced pop rock tracks that have a heavy undercurrent of lyrical darkness. Speaking of herself "I came from this grunge, punk-rock background, but I always wanted to write catchy pop songs" she's been called [[XMeetsWhy a mix of]] Music/{{Nirvana}} and Music/FionaApple. She's had a couple of singles that did okay on the alternative charts.

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: While not the most extreme example, her exact genre is heard to pin down, it can be tonally very extreme, but with very light choruses and then a traditional rawk-ish guitar solo.
* ObsessionSong: "Heart Heart Head" is this hardcore, "Desire" too is this more than an IntercourseWithYou track.