Meg Myers — “Sorry”
I’m not sure how I discovered Meg Myers. I’m not sure that it matters. I wish I had a fabulous story to tell about a love affair gone so right that it was wrong – something with someone famous that everyone knows but I can’t say because we have reputations to protect. Hers and mine. And while that wonderful affair was happening, Meg Myers “Sorry” started to blast from the speakers. But that affair never happened. Never would. I’m much too dull and straight edge for that kind of thing. And for that, I guess I am sorry too.
I guess I’m just glad that Meg is in my life with songs like ‘Monster’ and ‘Go’ as well.
If this is the first time you have heard Meg, you might think that the whole song is going to be a plaintive apology – that is until you get to that first sorry. And by the time she gets to the next apology, you can tell she has apologized enough. Too much. And even though she means it, it’s clear that she is tired of apologizing and she just wants to move on.
She is also one of the most unique presenters out there today. I am using the very broadcasty term ‘presenter’ instead of singer or entertainer because think that her platform and method of delivering her emotional message is something that feels somewhat fresh for 2015 – just like The Breeders and Nirvana also have the ability of sounding fresh again today too.
As for ‘Sorry,’ Meg not only wants to move on but she is hoping that the other person in this so called conversation can and will be able to move on too. This song is a reminder that no matter how perfect things seemed once upon a time, things change. They could get better but sometimes they don’t. That’s life. Get over it. Get past it. Move on. There is something else out there. There is someone else out there. And you can’t move on without remembering and without letting go.
Meg Myers is everything I want in a singer songwriter – tender and angry and emotional and beautiful all at the same time. The highs and the lows in ‘Sorry’ and some of her other songs that we have discussed and listened to take you for an incredible ride and keep re-acquiring your attention over and over again. Her formula is fairly similar from song to song but in the best possible way — jumping from extreme to extreme. Extreme voice. Extreme guitar. Extreme emotion.
I listen to a lot of music and rarely do I want to run out and buy the album. I would buy and listen to everything that Meg Myers released and will release. Her extremes are my extremes. She just manages to find a way to express them when most of us keep that kind of stuff bottled up inside.
Do I want Meg Myers to be that girl I was talking about in the beginning?
Yes.
And no.