Meg Washington - 'Smile Like You Mean It' (Official Audio)

Meg Washington covers @TheKillersMusic 'Hot Fuss'
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Written by The Killers
Arranged and Performed by Meg Washington
Produced by Meg Washington and Danny Harley @thekitestringtangle
Mixed by Danny Harley
Photography & Styling by She is Aphrodite
Hair and makeup by Angie Barton
Artwork by Adam Dal Pozzo
I’ve always loved this album. To me, it seems to capture the sound of yearning, the glamour and trash of what it feels like to be young, the intoxicating web of the scene, the madness of passion - hymns of electricity, of youth - impossibly delivered with both an ironic sneer and gothic sincerity.
The lyrics always felt like poetry to me - it’s a shapeshifting world; a glittering Vegas fever dream, darkly and romantically hypnotic - the soul, the soldiers, the lights, the late nights, the boyfriends morphing into girlfriends, the tectonic shifting of harmonic plates under endlessly driving guitars, muscle, gloss and neon.
As a songwriter, I always admired the laziness of the vocal melodies… and the effortless cool of Brandon Flowers’ delivery, part crooning, part keening, always gliding over the pounding surf of the instruments.
I’ve long cited ‘Hot Fuss’ as a desert island record for me - but only recently I had the notion to really examine it. I started pulling the songs apart to find their structure, and that’s when I felt something click. The music came with a completely different sensation… of space, of stillness, of peaceful melancholy, and with the lyrics uncluttered, I found deeper poetry still.
It became a great meditation, the study of a record I thought I already knew, the creation of a new context for it.
Through this deconstructive process, ‘All These Things That I’ve Done’ shone very brightly. To me, it is a jumbled poem of insecurity and ambition, the dichotomous reality of practicing art in a capitalistic world. I found meaning and hope in repetition of the final line: I’ve got soul, but I’m not a soldier - it feels like a prayer to the future.
x Meg
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[@MegWashington]

There's sparkling crystal in these songs. What began as a piano practice turned into covering the entire Killers debut record 'Hot Fuss'.

[@Maibu-OReiley]

Now if only we could get an episode with Calypso singing one of your originals.

[@trevorlock642]

Her voice is like a cold finger running down my spine...