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Acclaimed songwriter-turned-artist KANNER teams up with Rena Lovelis of pop rock band Hey Violet to bust the industry on their captivating single, "MEAT." After years of being told by the industry that she wasn't enough and made to feel she couldn't reach anyone's unattainable standards, KANNER created a hard-hitting truth serum of a song to call out the double standards and impossible demands placed on women.

The single, produced by PVRIS's Lynn Gunn, opens with pop-infused drum machine percussion, thrumming bass lines, and Kanner's delightfully raspy vocals. She describes aging as a "plague" in the entertainment world that can only be remedied with a bullet to the brain "or a syringe to your face." Frustrated and exhausted with the status quo, she declares her disgust with the lines, "Fuck this energy, I'm so sick of me/ Every time I'm moving up, I sell another piece of me...The only way you're moving up is just to be another piece of meat."

Lovelis's presence in the second verse adds to the haunting yet highly driven production, her angsty vocals biting back with each and every word. KANNER shares of the track, "'MEAT' is a song for anyone who has ever felt like they were not enough, passed over or objectified." She further shared, "It's time we stop getting treated like pieces of meat and become the ones serving it up in a plate of reality."

The accompanying music video, directed by Acacia Evans and written and produced by an all-female team, is like something out of a manic revenge movie, but in the best way. Starring KANNER and Lovelis, the duo team up to kidnap a music executive, bringing them to an abandoned meat locker. Blindfolded and bound to a chair, they give him a dose of his own medicine, torturing him with raw meat before washing their hands of blood.

The new single follows the success of her last release, "RICH MAN," which channeled more of that bold and infectious alt-pop energy she is building for herself. Inspired by the famous words of pop icon Cher, "RICH MAN" stands tall as a bold pop-rock feminine anthem and aims to empower and dismantle societal expectations, challenging the notion of a woman needing a man to complete herself. It is a song and a battle cry for women everywhere to embrace their strength, resilience, and inherent value while rocking out to an infectious and robust record.

Check out Kanner's latest single, "Meat," today!