U.S. GIRLS Shares 'Like James Said'
Toronto-based producer, film composer, and author Meg Remy anticipates her intuitive and adventurous U.S. Girls album Scratch It (out June 20 Via 4AD) with a new single entitled 'Like James Said,' an ELO-styled nugget of AM gold and nod to James Brown about the healing power of dancing alone.
Remy's own lyrical response to Brown's 'Get Up Offa That Thing', the track showcases her great - and characteristically tragicomic - phrasing, notably on the exaggerated pause in the line, "I'm the queen of exercising [...] pain.' It was written alongside Rich Morel, adding to his and Remy's long string of hits together ('Rosebud,' '4 American Dollars'). 'Like James Said' also arrives alongside a single-shot dance performance, directed by and starring comedian Tom Henry. Earlier this month, Remy introduced Scratch It with the release of an epic 12-minute lead single, 'Bookends' - a sprawling ballad that pays tribute to Remy's late friend and former Power Trip frontman Riley Gale, through the lens of Remy's reading of John Carey's Eye witness To History, a historical collection of 300+ eye witness accounts of great world events spanning twenty-four centuries. The single arrived alongside a cinematic short directed by Caity Arthur.
ABOUT U.S. GIRLS
Originally from Illinois, Meg Remy is established as one of the most acclaimed songwriters to emerge from Toronto's eclectic underground music scene where she currently lives. As the creative force behind the musical entity U.S. Girls, her celebrated decades-long discography includes three Polaris Prize shortlisted and Juno-nominated albums on 4AD: Half Free (2015), In A Poem Unlimited (2018), Heavy Light (2020), as well as Bless This Mess (2023) and live compilation Lives (2023).
Remy has exhibited collage work and directed several music videos and other video art works including her short film Woman's Advocate (2014). She published her first book, a memoir called Begin By Telling (2021), and is working on a follow-up. Recently, Remy has turned film composer, scoring Grace Glowicki's horror comedy Dead Lover, which premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Her producer credits include Bria Salmena's Big Dog (2025, Sub Pop). As a platform and persona, U.S. Girls operates on a uniquely out-of-time wavelength, alternately wronged and rueful, classic but contemporary, bruised vignettes of poetic Americana through a feminist lens.
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