WASHINGTON
As a spirited, creative child, Megan Washington danced around her Papua New Guinea lounge room to the songs of MGM musicals while the sounds of the jungle drifted in through the windows. The wildness of animal and human nature is an influence that’s still making its presence felt into her music. Though the girl who arrived in Brisbane at age twelve had not yet expressed an interest in music, she loved to dance and act under the influence of Cyd Charisse, Fred Astaire and Judy Garland, who were perhaps her earliest idols. Her new EP How to Tame Lions, the follow up to her debut Clementine, shows her love for artists as diverse as Leonard Cohen, Billie Holiday and Radiohead. “The new EP an examination of relationships,” she says. “Every song is about relationships of different kinds. The songs are also about frustration and animalistic behaviour, and the way people are genetically programmed. For some, it’s all about the chase. I love stuff that’s specific but universal.”
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