Nashville, Tennessee-born/Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Meg Myers does not sing pretty little songs about unrequited love or her string of jealous besties.
She sings about harsh love — "I gotta kill you, my love" she bemoans, not sounding the least regretful on her 2011 song "Monster"; "I really want you to hate me / I really want you to find / That I'm the ugliest girl," she implores from a recent song off her debut album "Sorry." Ironically the least harshest song is the title song in which she rewinds how a relationship went so bitterly bad. But the video for that has Myers thrashing about an apartment with a baseball bat, tearing everything to shreds in her wake.
It's not likely she will act that one out when she takes the stage at Club Congress Wednesday, Sept. 30. Doors open at 7 and Jarryd James is the opener. It's $16 in advance, $18 at the door, 311 E. Congress St., and this is an all-ages show.
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Rolling Stone is a big fan of Myers, noting that she "has a tremendously powerful voice that most immediately recalls Evanescence's Amy Lee." But the magazine questioned why Myers was backed by a band that didn't know if it wanted to be heavy metal, pop or electronica-lite. "Get thee to a proper metal band, Meg Myers!" Rolling Stone implored.
They have something there. She seems best suited to scream and smash down the house, as she does in "Sorry."
