{"id":33066,"date":"2026-07-22T16:54:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=33066"},"modified":"2026-07-22T16:54:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:54:36","slug":"megiapa-joins-international-anthem-announces-her-debut-full-length-intentions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=33066","title":{"rendered":"megiapa joins International Anthem;  announces her debut full-length <em>Intentions<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-33067\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/megiapa-Intentions.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When there\u2019s a new release on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intlanthem.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Anthem<\/a>, it&#8217;s always worth paying attention. Their latest signing is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/megiapa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">megiapa<\/a>, and she is set to make her debut full-length with <em>Intentions<\/em>, arriving on September 25th.\u00a0Born in Ohio and now based in Los Angeles, megiapa is a producer, vocalist, visual artist and linguist whose music has grown out of years immersed in Chicago&#8217;s underground beat scene before finding a new creative home in LA. Blending soulful vocals with adventurous production, <em>Intentions<\/em> brings together electronic textures, live instrumentation and collaborations with musicians from across both cities. Speaking about the album, megiapa says:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cFear is a hindrance to our dreams and our goals and the beauty of life. Please dream with me. Please take a moment to reflect. And please be okay with things being uncertain.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alongside the album announcement, megiapa has shared the opening track, &#8216;Open Your Eyes&#8217;, a sun-drenched and seductive introduction to the record. \u201cEverything we need is within us,\u201d she says of the track\u2019s message. \u201cWe all reflect each other.\u201d The single comes with an accompanying self-directed video and you can watch it below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yazwGKlneko?si=1cM9Im2p9gnHsPlm\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When there\u2019s a new release on International Anthem, it&#8217;s always worth paying attention. Their latest signing is megiapa, and she is set to make her debut full-length with Intentions, arriving on September 25th.\u00a0Born in Ohio and now based in Los Angeles, megiapa is a producer, vocalist, visual artist and linguist whose music has grown out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3595],"class_list":["post-33066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-megiapa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33066"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33072,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33066\/revisions\/33072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}