Synth Single Review: “Erase Me” by Megan McDuffee

by Karl Magi

Megan McDuffee’s “Erase Me” examines a dark lust as it unfolds. The song begins as ominous sounds are joined by a rushing beat and shadowy bass. Megan McDuffee’s sensually swirling voice carries a melody that bursts with desire and yearning, adding ardent emotion. As the rhythm throbs, her vocals are full of need, while dark notes intertwine with spectral bells and the heaving low end.

I enjoy Megan McDuffee’s darkly sweet vocal performance, which captures the aching desire within the lyrics. The rhythm moves forward as distant sounds levitate with spectral grace and chiming notes add a hint of starry brightness. The vocals are hushed and full of lust as broadly vibrating, string-like notes create a threatening sensation.

Megan McDuffee’s whispered delivery creates creeping danger behind the desire, and the undulating bass rumbles with muscled power. Her voice carries an enjoyably Gothic tinge as gliding tones echo with trailing, ghostly sensations, and silence falls.

For our storyteller, “tonight is not a usual affair.” Her walls are down and she’s lost her logic, but she doesn’t care. She pleads for the song’s subject to “bite me, taste me, lust erase me.” Everything falls away into the other person's darkness as she says, “I succumb to craving.” She wants to be kissed hard, repeatedly and declares, “I want you, let’s scream into an ending.”

“Beneath the moon, a trade in desire,” as the narrator adds that she’s one of them, if only for an hour. She continues, “Tonight we feast upon each other’s breath,” saying that it isn’t enough and that she needs to be obsessed. She goes on, “Bleed me, feed me, lust erase me,” as everything drops away and she admits she needs the other person, even though “you’ll be the death of me.”

To conclude, she says, “Drink me slow and give me your sweet curse. I’ve let you in now, so hush and do your worst.”