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May 20, 2025 By Mark Redfern Photography by Colin Medley

U.S. Girls (aka Meghan Remy) is releasing a new album, Scratch It, on June 30 via 4AD. Now she has shared its second single, “Like James Said,” via a music video. Comedian Tom Henry stars in and directed the song’s video. Watch it below.

The James of “Like James Said” is soul legend James Brown. A press release says the song is “about the healing power of dancing alone” and is Remy’s lyrical response to Brown’s “Get Up Offa That Thing.”

Henry had this to say about directing and starring in the song’s video: “When Meg talked to me about making some sort of video about this song that talks about dancing, I had a sudden bolt of inspiration—how about a video about dancing? I don’t know how these ideas come to me.

“To me, this character has a story, but ultimately, I just think someone trying to do something well, who doesn’t fully have the faculties to do that, is funny and interesting, and possibly sad—the two and a half things I want to be as a comedian. That’s why I got my dancer friend, Gillian, to help put together this dance piece and attempted to perform it as best I could. I hope, above all else, everyone finds it breathtakingly beautiful, and that I win an award.”

U.S. Girls previously shared the album’s first single, the 12-minute long “Bookends,” via a music video. It was #1 on our Songs of the Week list.

Scratch It came together when the Toronto-based Remy put together a new band for a one-off performance at a festival in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Aided by her friend, guitarist Dillon Watson (D. Watusi, Savoy Motel, Jack Name), Remy assembled a band of Nashville-based musicians. She then decided to travel to Nashville to record a new album with this new band, which features Watson on guitar alongside Jack Lawrence (The Dead Weather, The Raconteurs, Loretta Lynn) on bass, Domo Donoho on drums, both Jo Schornikow and Tina Norwood on keys, and harmonica legend Charlie McCoy (Elvis, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison). They recorded Scratch It in only 10 days. On May 14 Remy will be reassembling the band to perform the album live for the first time at Soft Junk in Nashville.

U.S. Girls’ last album was 2023’s Bless This Mess, which was inspired by Remy’s pregnancy and the birth of her twin boys.

Remy’s album before that, Heavy Light, came out in 2020. Read our interview with Remy on that album here.

U.S. Girls Tour Dates:

Wed May 14 – Nashville, TN – Soft Junk
Sat June 21 – Asheville, NC – Grey Eagle
Sun June 22 – Washington, DC – The Atlantis
Mon June 23 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
Wed June 25 – New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
Thu June 26 – Somerville, MA – The Rockwell
Sat June 28 – Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop
Sun June 29 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
Tue Sept 9 – Los Angeles, CA – Lodge Room
Thu Sept 11 – San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Stop

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