Meiko’s “Be Mine” Goes To MTVU

mtvU HOSTS EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE OF MEIKO’s “Be Mine”

Acclaimed alt-pop singer Meiko returns with her highly anticipated 3rd full-length LP via Fantasy Records/Concord Music Group, entitled Dear You, available now. Today, mtvU debuts the official video for the album’s glistening first single “Be Mine”. Starting at 6am, the video will spin every hour all day–watch it here: http://www.mtv.com/artists/meiko/ Also beginning today The Huffington Post hosts the exclusive premiere of Meiko’s video vignette for the sultry track “Bad Things”, watch it here: http://huff.to/1ruC6GY.

Dear You follows Meiko’s much-admired 2012 release The Bright Side, which climbed to #1 on the iTunes’ Singer-Songwriter chart. Fueled by its buoyant hit single “Stuck On You”, the track garnered the attention of influential tastemakers worldwide and found numerous placements in film and on television.

Dear You’s decidedly darker tone is, in many ways, the flipside to The Bright Side’s sunnier disposition. Longing, betrayal, heartbreak and reprisal are intimately acknowledged and explored here, supported by Meiko’s increasingly stripped down, sophisticated songwriting.

The eleven songs on Dear You consist primarily of her private, unsent letters. “I like writing letters: love letters, pissed-off letters, breakup letters,” she explains. “I rarely wind up mailing those letters, though. Instead, I turn them into songs. Dear You is an album mostly filled with those unsent notes.”

Recorded in her adopted hometown of Los Angeles (and produced by Jimmy Messer, who also helmed a good chunk of The Bright Side) Dear You’s sparse soundscape beautifully underscores the album’s intimate, confessional nature.

Meiko professes, “It’s not all candy and roses, but sometimes you just need the grit and that’s exactly how I imagined Dear You being – completely confessional. It was good for my soul and I’m happy to finally let it out into the world.”

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Meiko – Dear You track list:
1 Bad Things (3:54)
2. Lose It (3:44)
3. Be Mine (3:17)
4. The Cloud Song (3:40)
5. Wake Up (2:49)
6. Sweeter (3:47)
7. Deep Sweat (3:24)
8. If He Doesn’t Love You (2:27)
9. Sittin’ Here (2:51)
10. Dear You (3:34)
11. Go To Hell (2:54)