Girl of the Month
Megan Landry
Megan is 16 and from
Canada. She is an artist
and she writes all her
own songs. Writing
songs and making
videos is her life.
Music has been a
part of Megan for as
long as she can
remember, but in terms
of becoming an actual
“musician,” she would say it
happened gradually over time.
She self-taught some basics on
the piano as early as age four,
then had drum lessons at age
seven, piano lessons at age
nine, wrote her first song at age
11 first song recording at age 14
Even with all the lessons she
took, she did a lot of stuff on her
own. She’d keep herself busy
with writing poetry as well as
writing songs and music scores
and did a lot of drawing and
photoshop and photography. She
would say she became serious
about music around age 14 when
she first started recording. Apart
from that, it’s lived in her for as
long as she’s lived herself, it’s
part of her.
Megan wrote “Stronger” because
of bullying in middle school.
Basically a large
group of girls, some
her friends, turned on
her in the eighth grade
and made her last year
of middle school and first few
years of high school really
miserable. It was a lonely time.
She then wrote “Pretty Faces.”
She was feeling lost, there’s
satisfaction in writing stuff down,
almost relief. Songs tell a story,
it’s a way of getting it out.
Our society is sick. Not in
mentality, but in general. The
image of beauty has been
bruised to such an extent that
nobody really understands just
what “beautiful,” is anymore.
What’s most important for girls to
understand is that it isn’t them
with the “issues,” it’s the world
around them. Trying to fit in a
damaged perception will only
damage us more. We’re human.
“Perfect,” is a mirage, it doesn’t
exist. To Megan, imperfection is
where beauty lays.
Megan loves writing. It’s one of
the most amazing things out
there and she loves it for some
very specific reasons, mostly;
you can never be bad at it.
Creative writing can be whatever
you want it to be. It could be as
simple as three words on an
open page or a 300 page novel.
Megan says she is terrible at
subjects like Science and Math in
school because they are based
on either right or wrong answers.
It’s either black or it’s white. With
writing, you can dive into every
shade of gray in between.
There’s no “right’s” and
“wrong’s;” you can just pour out
whatever’s on your mind. It’s art.
You can read it over and perfect
it as many times as you want. It’s
simply an escape and you can
keep it to yourself and never
show another soul if that’s what
you’d like or you can share it.