There are more than one artist who go by the name "Meow Meow."

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1) Shortwave radio squeals, Beatles-esque tape loops and healthy doses of analog knob-twiddling all underscore the pure-sugar pop tones of Snow Gas Bones. Meow Meow exists somewhere between Brill Building tradition and grandpa's pre-war 78 rpms played with a broken stylus. With hypnotic visual projections, all members sharing vocal duties and swapping instruments, they've brought their kaleidoscopic live shows up the west coast, down to SXSW and soon to the UK and Japan.

2) Named top ten “Best of Cabaret ” by Time Out New York, “cabaret diva of the highest order” by the New York Post and “A phenomenon” by the Australian press, the “Post -post- modern cabaret diva” Meow Meow has wowed audiences globally with her unique brand of kamikaze cabaret and performance art exotica.

She’s won numerous Australian Green Room Awards and the New York Franklin Furnace Performance Art award. Her solo programme has been curated by David Bowie for his NY High Line Festival (alongside Laurie Anderson, Amy Winehouse, Arcade Fire and Ricky Gervais), and by Pina Bausch for her legendary dance-theatre festival 08 (alongside Baryshnikov, Sylvie Guillem, de Keersmaker and Paris Opera). The Sydney Opera House has presented several seasons of her works: “Beyond Glamour” and “Meow to the World: Crisis is Born”, and with Malthouse Theatre commissioned her full-length original music theatre piece VAMP! (with composer Iain Grandage). Sydney Festival and NY’s Performance Space122 have curated her piece “Insert the name of the Person You Love” – an ongoing work on the time it takes to fall in love - in collaboration with scientists and psychologists from Rutgers, Stonybrook and Oregon State Universities. Her concerts for the Carnegie Hall “Berlin in Lights” series at Neue Galerie NY have had sell-out performances, she has had extended seasons at the home of German cabaret, Bar Jeder Vernunft, Berlin.

In collaborations she has worked with John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig, Shortbus), Rodney Fisher, John Jesurun, Lance Horne, Anthony Coleman (John Zorn), Iain Grandage, toured the US with Amanda Palmer and the Dresden Dolls, and with Pink Martini’s Thomas M Lauderdale has written and recorded the album “Here Kitty Kitty…The Lost Sessions” due for release in 09. She is a regular guest in the Olivier Award winning La Clique on the West End, and with the Weimar NY collective in NYC (with such performers as Justin Bond of Kiki and Herb, Penny Arcade, Taylor Mac and Julie Atlas Muz).

Meow has also performed in venues as diverse as SF MoMA, Sydney Opera House, Joe's Pub NYC ( her home in NYC), Highline Ballroom NYC, Hiro Ballroom NYC, The Neuberger Museum, American Repertory Theatre, Boston Orpheum, The Glamour Room Shanghai, the Berlin Philharmonic, Famous Spiegeltents globally, Darcelle XV, London's West End and numerous international arts festivals including Time Based Arts (US), Ann Arbor, Edinburgh, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Brisbane, Darwin, Queensland Music Festival, New Zealand, Braga Portugal and Festival Estuaire, France.

Meow has recorded for WDR, RBB (Germany), ABC (Australia), Radio France and Sonic Arts (UK), and embarks next on a return season of “Wunderschön”, the Schoenberg Ensemble’s reworking of Schubert and Schumann with the Australian National Academy of Music ensemble, and a solo season in the US for Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Ringling International Arts Festival.

3) Raggacore/Breakcore producer from the Netherlands. More info on www.meowmeow.nl and www.soundcloud.com/meowdx. Has released on Sociopath Recordings and Ketacore Records.

Not Worth Recovering
Meow Meow Lyrics

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?? so very suddenly
As if you pierced right through an artery

And every day is
As you said it would be
One step closer to the end

When I had you stripped away from me

Somehow it seemed not worth recovering

And I will shine like
?? winter
Only to be snuffed by sunshine

And I will shine like
?? winter
Only to be snuffed by sunshine

Ah, ah ..

Oo, oo ..

Ah, ah ..

In a moment of
Clarity it became
Quite apparent that

Someday you would
Leave

Overall Meaning

these parts

You never belonged
Here anyway
But I clung to you
Knowing you'd go

And when you left
It hurt so much
But it didn't feel
Worth trying to get you back

The lyrics of Meow Meow's song Not Worth Recovering describe the aftermath of a breakup. The singer is reflecting on the suddenness of the separation, feeling as though the wound was deep and irreparable. They describe the days following the breakup as being one step closer to the inevitable end of life. The lyrics convey the sense of hopelessness and despair that can accompany a sudden and unexpected loss. The singer questions whether the effort of recovering from the loss is even worthwhile, suggesting that they believe it is not.

The lyrics also include imagery of contrasting elements, such as shining like winter, only to be snuffed out by sunshine. This metaphorical language represents the ephemeral nature of life and the fleeting nature of happiness. The lyrics also suggest that the singer has had a moment of clarity, realizing that the relationship was never meant to last and that the other person was never truly part of their world.

Line by Line Meaning

?? so very suddenly
You left me abruptly without any warning

As if you pierced right through an artery
The pain of your leaving felt like a sharp and sudden physical wound

And every day is
Each day that passes

As you said it would be
Is just as you predicted

One step closer to the end
Is bringing me closer to the conclusion of this chapter in my life

When I had you stripped away from me
When you were taken away from me against my will

Somehow it seemed not worth recovering
I didn't feel like trying to get you back was worth the effort or pain

And I will shine like
I will radiate light like

?? winter
The brightness of winter snow

Only to be snuffed by sunshine
But then disappear when the sun melts it away

In a moment of
During a moment of