Natalie Mering, aka Weyes Blood, knows you all made memes out of her lyric “Sitting at this party,

wondering if anyone knows me, really sees who I am.

She’s seen the “they don’t know” party memes. She loves them all.

Though the song that contains that lyric, “It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody,”

Though the song that contains that lyric, “It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody,”

Mering understands the purpose behind these niche internet jokes.

“It’s our coping mechanism.

In some ways it’s our best shot at trying to make sense of everything,

he says on a Zoom call ahead of the release of her fifth studio album

And In the Darkness, Hearts Aglow.

And In the Darkness, Hearts Aglow is a subterranean romance novel, Mering tells me,