Megan Payne: Kicking My Shoes Off
Megan Payne is an eclectic multi-instrumentalist, composer and songwriter from Suffolk. She plays a variety of instruments over a wide range of styles and genres, writes the lyrics and gets fellow musicians to provide the vocals. Kicking My Shoes Off is her collaborative debut album. Kicking My Shoes Off is the name she has chosen to call the album and it has been planned since last year.
This album features an array of different genres and styles. Kicking My Shoes Off describes different situations and struggles she has faced over the last couple of years, each song is a different event that has happened and represents her feelings behind and process to which she dealt with each hurdle she has had to overcome. The title ‘Kicking My Shoes Off’ is meaning that someone can only take so much, ‘Kicking My Shoes Off’ is the being so overwhelmed and it is the outburst that comes with facing all of these feelings, challenges and situations - I can’t take anymore so I’m Kicking My Shoes Off.
Influences behind some of the songs include artists like; Toadies, Garbage, Muse, Five Finger Death Punch, Kaleo, Billie Eilish and Lana Del Rey.
The album was recorded over 7 months and features artists such as; Rozie Faith, Lizzy Kettle, BAILEE, Indigo, Dash Lowe, Harrison Steele, annabelle Olivia and Stantz.
Hopefully this album can instil a picture of expressing feelings and getting past difficult situations. It is a let off steam album, a way of expressing herself in a creative way.
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