Ideas change everything

"True Liars" and "The Death of Me"

Meg Myers |

TED Salon: Brightline Initiative

• November 2019

Meg Myers performs an intimate, stripped-down version of "The Death of Me" from her latest album, Take Me To The Disco, and an unreleased song, "True Liars."

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Meg Myers performs an intimate, stripped-down version of "The Death of Me" from her latest album, Take Me To The Disco, and an unreleased song, "True Liars."

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This talk was presented at a TED Salon event given in partnership with Brightline Initiative.

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About the speaker

Meg Myers

Singer-songwriter

Meg Myers is a Nashville-born, L.A.-based singer-songwriter who made a name for herself with her first three critically acclaimed releases, the EPs Daughter in the Choir (2013) and Make a Shadow (2014) and her 2015 full-length debut Sorry (Atlantic Records). Myers is known for the emotional intensity of her lyrics and music and her uncanny ability to vacillate between seducing the listener with an innocent whisper and jarring them with a guttural scream. Entertainment Weekly describes her knack for such emotive vocal dynamics as "mysteriously shape-shifting." Her latest record, Take Me to the Disco, was released in 2018 and her recent cover of Kate Bush’s song “Running Up That Hill” went to number 1 at alternative radio.

About TED Salon

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This talk was presented at a TED Salon event given in partnership with Brightline Initiative.

Read more about TED Salons.