Meghan Trainor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PCkvCPvDXk

Every generation gets the "Baby Got Back" it deserves

But I thought Anaconda was going to take that place.

was just gonna post:

Between this and the new Nicki Minaj song, it's like Sir Mix-A-Lot is running top 40 radio

apparently an early mentor of hers was al anderson of NRBQ, which puts this song in a context you might not otherwise consider

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/JoeySpampinato.jpg

all about that bass

she also claims to be very influenced by soca music so get psyched for the full-length!

lol this screams one hit wonder novelty song to me but then again so did katy perry at this stage D:

But Katy Perry at least had material written/produced by Dr. Luke/Max Martin, whereas this girl's stuff is being cowritten and produced by a guy whose biggest hits were Stacie Orrico's Stuck and Jason Mraz's Wordplay.

aside from the politics this song sucks. total glee rap.

Ha I posted this on the rolling worst songs thread

lol the politics. "don't worry girls men will still want to fuck you when you're fat"

and now we've gone full circle to the initial "baby got back" ref

catchy chorus but the verse lyrics are soooo corny

i think this got posted on rolling worst songs twice, that's how bad it is

omg the pandering, somebody pls stop the pandering

this is like a cross between Natasha Bedingfield and a Dove advert, woeful

it isn't that awful, it's just unremarkable

its biggest political statement might be using acoustic bass

nrbq, guys. nrbq.

i wonder if she or her collaborator was like "we gotta spice this up with some modern slang"

i kinda hope she's this really corny nantucket prodigy who has to be goaded into "amy winehouse"-ing her retro-formalist stuff with "skinny bitches" and whatnot

said collaborator co-wrote "geek in the pink" and "wordplay" with jason mraz

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Kadish

He also co-wrote "Narcissistic Boiz" on the upcoming J Records release from artist BC Jean.

ah, guess the slang was hers

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6191069/meghan-trainor-on-all-about-that-bass-its-about-loving-your-body

You know how the bass guitar in a song is like its "thickness," the "bottom"? I kind of related a body to that. My producer (Kadish]) had the title and said that none of his prior co-writers could figure out what to relate that to. So, I said, "What about a booty? Let's talk about that!"

i dunno. Beyonce said "I'm proud of all this bass, can I put it in ya face" on her album 6 months ago. surely lots of other similar usages before that.

superbass

oh i just meant "her idea to incorporate it into the song," not that she invented the bass/booty parallel, c'mon

oh ok ::shrugs::

i mean even by that more specific measure though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfu-2PNjIOY

dude i don't bring up nrbq to suggest she's a visionary

she's part of a long line of yocky novelty slang slingers, therefore not someone i'd be quick to assume invented anything. i was just curious which person brought in the novelty hooks

this has already inspired thinkpieces from the expected corners

Her other songs are somehow even worse.

This song is impossible to dance to with any joy.

Yeah...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp7qWfDANrU

ha, apparently I have a friend of a friend named Meghan Trainor and was v confused for a sec when I saw her like my friend's fb post

I've mercifully avoided All About That Bass until just now, and then I subjected myself to Dear Future Husband. In short, Meghan Trainor is now the person I hate the most in the world.

the backing track of dear future husband reminds me of jive bunny

now that nicki minaj has given this generation the "baby got back" it deserves meghan trainor can be this generation's lou bega

Megan Trainor dont have a Mambo #5 in her...at best she has a "how bizarre"

not even

"how bizarre" >>>>

Who the fuck rates mambo no 5 over how bizarre I mean who the FUCK

gonna take a while to rebuild that trust neanderthal

This is "Cotton Eye Joe" quality AT BEST.

i should have made clear i was making a connection between meghan's soca fixation and ol mr mambo, and avoided everybody smearing their shit on the walls talking about irrelevant novelties

cotton eye joe is classic you pos

http://emojipedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/160x160x91-pile-of-poo.png.pagespeed.ic.N6iNfrs6Op.jpg

is she a great big fat person?

Who the fuck rates mambo no 5 over how bizarre I mean who the FUCK

― da croupier, Saturday, September 6, 2014 11:41 PM Bookmark

srsly

Lol sry i hate both songs. Also in my defense..nah gonna end with that.

nah

you srsly underestimate ILM's love for "How Bizarre"

every time i look around, it's in my face

BUY THE RIGHTS

Every song is worse than the last.

oh god that "Dear Future Husband" thing, jesus

it's like they were trying to make a Winehouse 2.0 car-insurance-ad-ready version of a 50s/60s sockhop vibe but had only ever heard a karaoke version of "Runaround Sue"

Srsly! That shit is straight "swing the mood".

mass appeal facebook meme the song

her next single will prob be called "...said no one ever!!" or something

I actually liked the "bass" song and the video. It is fun and catchy pop, and the video didn't suffer from the cringeworthy racial issues of Lily Allen or that Miley performance.

I also like "Baby Got Back" ... dunno how much it has to do with being a woman who is "endowed," but it feels a bit creepy seeing mostly dudes being dismissive.

#notalldudes

my main problem with this is her awful vocal affect, perfectly fine pop song otherwise.

nah actually not really, it's pretty weak

im all about that flange, that flange
no garu

oh come on can a man not support confidence in curves and still suggest the teen going "da booty booty da booty booty" over chintzy retro-pop may be a flash in the pan

as a pop singer, i mean. i'm sure she'll continue to get to write for rascal flatts and whoever. might even sing country too.

the "buyin' groceries / buy, buyin' what you need" bit from "Dear Future Husband" would be great as the pitched-down hook for a mid-00s coke-rap banger

the video didn't suffer from the cringeworthy racial issues of Lily Allen or that Miley performance.

I guess it says something about the racial politics of 2014 that a white girl singing "I'M ALL ABOUT DAT BASS" in an accent that to my ears sounds vaguely imitative of an inexact "black" diction doesn't involve "cringeworthy racial issues" anymore.

tbf she apparently learned how to pronounce booty from her mother

She was born in Nantucket and grew up in Hyannis, MA.

so many alternative ass puns

i'm likely to hear this at karaoke night tonight, have to grin and bear it

I was totally unaware of this song until last night, when a friend posted this youtube cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyTTX6Wlf1Y

I actually kind of enjoyed the cover, and the original and its video when I tracked them down, in the same way I enjoy most of the referents above (Jive Bunny, Mambo #5, Katy Perry, Glee songs) -- as Sarahell said, fun and catchy pop, which I thought about as long as, say, Rebecca Black, and a good deal more than, say, anything I've seen from Pomplamoose. That said, Hurting2 otm re: racial politics imo.

These three:

http://38.media.tumblr.com/09132f3b7ad25d6ac72ff05c2bf2c1c5/tumblr_n8lwm6tb5e1sljr2xo1_500.png

I mean, they should get their own spin-off group right? Like, Meghan Trainor had a number two record at the end of summer, but then those three eyeless weirdos really shook things up.

I just want to say I love how bizarre and butts

Every Time I Look Around, It's In My Face: The Summer of the Butt

Officially #1 in the US.

putting money down now on at least one thinkpiece about the year's #1 singles being titled "shake it like a white girl"

Or "2014: A Bottom Heavy Year".

I just heard the "cleaned up" version of this on Radio Disney this morning. They replace the word booty with beauty. e.g. I'm bringing beauty back. Somehow makes the song even more ridiculous.

lmfao

I have missed beauty

i'm bringing cooties back

i'm bringing hootie back

i'm bringing rooty back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU4Y3A3oJRM

bringing snootie back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikL-18q7uQ4

bringing cutie rootie tootie little booty back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jI8kWdkzwY

hahaaaa

glad someone is finally bringing elevated standards of female beauty back to young kids

bringing pootie back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtCxvv8Y3Bs

My wife, who didn't grow up here, loves Nicki Minaj but I recently realized had never heard Baby Got Back and didn't know the sample. Playing her the original I was reminded of how it actually seemed like kind of a radical move at the time to have a pop hit talking about a body type not represented in mainstream media, especially one more associated, allegedly, with black preferences. Somehow now it doesn't feel so radical anymore, which I guess is a good thing for the culture. But like the "plus size model" has become such a popular, pat-ourselves-on-the-back thing that it's already been parodied by the Onion, and that makes Trainor's song seem to have a lot less bite. And I really wish I had a writing/posting style that sounded less stilted when discussing songs about big butts.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3577/3691506212_625d2eb3e0.jpg

I'm waiting for the fabled 'soca influences' to make an appearance before pitching for the challopy thinkpiece market. Reckon I could make upwards of £80 on this hot potato if I play my cards right.

I was hoping IHOP would bring back the Rooty Tooty Fresh 'N Fruity®, but apparently they did!

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/veTC7qteVis/hqdefault.jpg

pat-ourselves-on-the-back thing that it's already been parodied by the Onion

Senator Mix-A-Lot Sponsors Titties-On-Glass Legislation
NEWS IN BRIEF • Politics • Congress • Music • Legislation • ISSUE 38•42 • Nov 13, 2002

WASHINGTON, DC—Seeking to stem a four-year decline in freaky Yolandas throwing they titties on U.S. glass, U.S. Sen. Mix-A-Lot (B-WA) introduced sweeping new putting-'em-on-glass legislation Tuesday. "Now listen up, Uncle Sam / I wanna see soul sistas pressin' that ham / Make me say damn / I wanna rear-end 'em / So I'm callin' a Senate referendum / Bounce by the ounce don't make no fun / I'll take 'em by the ton, son," Mix-A-Lot said. "Don't hand this bill down to no committees / 'Cause Mix don't wait on monster titties / Note to my colleague Tom Daschle / That if the babies be gettin' bashful / No melons droppin' on my windshield / So get them nudie laws repealed." Mix-A-Lot then gave props to the authors of H.R. 1610, from which several key clauses were sampled.

ffs

I mean, I guess I should read the article and also I know that asking if so-and-so is a feminist is just a trap at this point but really, ffs

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bx3oB3ZCMAA_vkU.jpg

even if she considered herself one, she would so totally be a White Feminist(TM), so I have some degree of difficulty caring

I mean, even if she declared herself feminist, it wouldn't change my opinion of her music whatsoever

I've managed to avoid hearing her song in full ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

http://i.imgur.com/bqGVkwd.png

wut

That has to be fake. Please be fake.

I think if she'd actually had sextuplets it would have come up somewhere besides Wikipedia.

oh come on that's obviously vandalism

Well, yeah, but what a bizarre way to vandalise someone's page.

not that bizarre

(Opens envelope, reads:) "How bizarre??"

"all about that bass no trouble"
About 127,000 results (0.27 seconds)

Wanna know the rest? Hey, buy the sampling right.

I finally heard this song while listening to the radio in a rental car. It seems kind of dumb.

I heard someone completely blasting it driving around a parking garage on Friday night.

oh were you near an avis too

the bassline on this song is hilarious

she makes me miss duffy

That isn't a sentence I ever expected to read

2014

2014 :(

dear future husband is rendering me speechless

wait what

proceed at yr own risk

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/meghantrainor/dearfuturehusband.html

:\

there's a remix with bieber

i backed away from it, i am not ready

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/10/14/all_about_that_bass_by_meghan_trainor_is_still_no_1_on_billboard_why_video.html?wpisrc=burger_bar

lex it might speak to you:

So don't be thinking I'll be home and baking apple pies
I never learned to cook
But I can find a hook

lol @ kevin kadish before & after

http://top40-charts.com/thumb.php?x=342&&i=http://top40-charts.com/images/news2014/20141016024234-Sony-atv-Signs-all-About-The-Bass-Songwriter-.jpg
http://www.songwriteruniverse.com/images/kevin-kadish.jpg

http://pop.genius.com/3966897

http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/ad-agency-made-meghan-trainors-new-video-and-its-great-161594#.VHD1hpY8LCQ

"Not only does her music work well with a fun, high-energy campaign, but she's also a young, socially active creator herself who we knew would inspire our influencers and their fans," said 180 creative director Adam Groves.

hnnnnnngggggggg

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go tell it to tanuki

Not until he finishes his vegetables.

and she hired Les Twins too. :/ oh well, at least they're getting paid.

Meghan calls back to “All About That Bass”. She might not mind that her lover likes “a little more booty to hold at night”, but that doesn’t mean she wants to be only known for her assets. She has good words to say too!

It’s a variation on the “my face is up here” expression women have to tell the easily distracted.

---

Referencing back to her song All About That Bass again, she gave him sex, which was all he wanted, and in return he gave her nice compliments and flattery and whatnot. Sort of a secret deal that he had made unbeknownst to her.

“Number one” also ties in on how “Bass” topped music charts worldwide. Except anyone can flatter her with that fact.

T/F: substantial overlap btw Meghan Trainor fans and people who are still saying "hot mess" a lot

T?

my sister likes to hold her baby daughter upright with her feet on the floor and make her 'dance' to 'All About That Bass'. it makes me very embarrassed for all parties involved.

Billboard wrote that Trainor had solidified herself as the "queen of her own genre, 'she-wop'".

:/

she-wop, he-wop, a we-wop

"solidified"

During the Watergate scandal, President Richard Nixon referred to United States District Court Judge John Sirica as a "gol' darn wop."

just gonna leave this here: http://www.mtv.com/bands/e/eamon/news_feature_022404/

it's brought me a lot of joy over the years

ho-wop is legendary

i went into a record store the other and they were playing her album. i didn't leave because they had a bunch of great middle eastern records i ended up buying, but i sure did consider leaving.

what'd you end up getting?

a bunch of stuff! ali akbar khan and some pretty rare "ethnic" LPs from the 1950s.

NICE

http://www.clickhole.com/blogpost/i-am-new-person-you-have-know-about-now-1784

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqzDy9rw8oQ

this person is not going away

am i the only one who finds her swerve from lightweight novelty doowop, sorry, 'she-wop', straight into hard pop-rnb slightly... sinister?

she's on TSA's no sing list.

"me too" and "no" are fantastic

i love what she's doing

it's like the T.G.I. Friday version of pop music? I'm not sure why i like Blurred Lines but am suspicious of Meghan Trainor yet there it is.

"me too" and "no" are fantastic

i love what she's doing
--james brooks

Great songs, great excuses for Ricky Reed beats. People are judging her unfairly for sure

i think she'll go away before long

PC music is the t.g.i.fridays of pop music

an unsatisfying and overpriced parody of the actual food each meal is designed to resemble

meaghan trainor is the real thing

Her beats suck and she can't sing, but I can't wait for 2023's Stereogum retrosp5.

Her beats suck and she can't sing, but I can't wait for 2023's Stereogum retrosp5.
--The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

The beats to those two songs are great!

whiney as meghan trainor apologist is a SURPRISE PLOT REVEAL

whiney as meghan trainor apologist is a SURPRISE PLOT REVEAL
--ulysses

I didn't like the 50s throwback thing, but half the new record is just quicker out Ricky Reed party beats which are some of the funkiest, weirdest pop beats around and nothing to be mad at. People who complain that a pop star isn't as authentic as other pop stars is a little ... rockist?

*quirked out

The rest of the record I do not really care for

i'm trolling a bit but it does seem like you're swimming against popular opinion.
I still think 'all about that bass' is a solid novelty song; rest of that album is terrible and I haven't even tried anything off the new one yet but NO which is NO

Maybe I'm a rockist because if En Vogue came back in 2001 with NO I'd probably be into it?

But they can sing and can hire beats.

"me too" is fucking horrible you guys

"no" sounds like late-'90s teen pop (it reminds me of "overprotected") and yes of course I would like it if anyone else were singing it but that's the point

"no" sounds like she exhumed a serviceable c-tier r&b-pop track from 2002 that might have been intended to be a blu cantrell deep cut, but god her voice is the most pinched, perfunctory, joyless thing

though i find her pretty ignorable as terrible and bafflingly successful pop stars go, so there's that

both new singles actually are good though. largely because serviceable c-tier r&b-pop tracks from 2002 were and are generally pretty good

her singing tho

and tracer hand otm because if almost anyone else in pop today had come out with either single, with comparable vocals even, no one would think nearly as poorly of them. (it's not all that hard to imagine who they might have been written for, too)

xp -- it's entirely fine! not great by any stretch, but entirely fine, especially if you imagine her vocal isn't too far removed from the demo

(I forget who here said which album reminded them of Mya's _Moodring_ but that is also something I hear -- "Me Too" feels like a lesser version of "Sophisticated Lady," i.e. a lesser version of a 10/10

like, if we're talking about bad vocals, hearing "is it too late now to say sah-REEEEEEEEEEEEEE" everywhere over the last couple months has made everyone else sound like maria callas by comparison

making you miss DA GUDOLDAAAAAAYZ, eh?

no is a very bad song

I think she is bad

xp - except it really isn't. it's not great, but it's hardly any notable offense against music. at worst, it's bland

love "me too"

you are all making me question my immediate loathing of "me too"

I haven't heard me too but if it isn't about the day AOL got on usenet then I'm not interested

I like the boingy, rubbery synth; I like the kind of Beck-ish pre-chorus; I'm not mad at the chorus which is a little affectless but gets the job done. There's a dog in the video.

"no" does sound like a subpar album cut from that late 90s/early 00s era. or maybe an interlude.

lotta dismissive attitudes towards m-train for a message board that was once ground zero for pipettes hyperfandom imo

pipettes were so terrible

"pull shapes" was great sorry

your disses are wasted on me

Meghan Trainor is against Photoshop and objectifying women, but she doesn’t give AF who runs the United States of America. The “No” singer told Billboard in a new interview that she’s not only never voted before, but that she’s just not going to be into it … ever.

“I should be way more aware,” Trainor told the magazine while talking about politics. “If it was [Hillary Clinton] or [Donald] Trump, I’d definitely vote for her — but I’ve never voted and I don’t have any desire to.”

The LGBTQ advocate didn’t expand on her decision to shirk her civic duties, but she did express her disbelief when it comes to the recent shootings across the country. “I think it’s ridiculous that random crazy people can buy guns,” she told Billboard.

The songstress also tooted her own horn during the interview.

“I always say, ‘I s--t hits,’” Trainor boasted. “Because they come out so quick I can’t even keep up with myself.” (In her defense, the Grammy winner has written chart-toppers for Jennifer Lopez, Fifth Harmony and Rascal Flatts, as well as her own jams.)

And while the 22-year-old from Nantucket, Massachusetts, has made a name by embracing her curves, she’s the first to admit that she didn’t set out to be a role model.

“I don’t really have a choice,” she said about being a spokesperson for body positivity. “It’s not like I’m trying to go out there and be a famous person who’s all about being a role model for curves. I mean, if it’s helping other people, then that’s amazing and I will be that role model.”

Growing up in Massachusetts, Trainor was introduced to musicians such as Bob Marley through her uncle Burton Toney, a Trinidadian soca star.

“I’d show [photos to] people in high school, like, ‘That’s my uncle!’ And they’d be like, ‘What?’” she recalled while showing Billboard a photo of her black uncle. “I always say, ‘I’m Trini to the bone,’ which means you have Trini blood. I don’t. I just wish I did.”

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/meghan-trainor-has-never-voted-has-no-desire-to-w213085

wow, only two pages of google results for "I shit hits", surely some other famous hit-shitter has thought to say this before now, Lionel Richie maybe?

lol

Is it hard to vote in the US?

Things Meghan Trainor always says poll:

° I shit hits
° I'm Trini to the bone

lol this is her aunt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKU8k2TMwOw

That is really gross, Meghan.

it's a family affair

So no "All About That Hill.../No Trumpin'..." jingle then...

Sad!

I hope she amasses enough hits that she can release a greatest hits and call it I Shit Hits.

I do like her imagining what she'd do in the hypothetical race of Hillary Clinton v. Donald Trump.

in fairness maybe that interview was from before Hillary clinched the race

"Only the Shits"

I shit hits for this?

Shits & Pisses

I feel like we've glazed over the youtoob crüt graciously embeded just upthread;

this track isn't merely a " Trinidadian soca " banger performed by her aunt, this joint is also written and produced my meghan trainor herself. however, it only has ~9000 views on youtube, hardly a hit at all!

so what gives? is it a square/rectangle type thing, where all her hits are shits, but not every shit is a hit? or is the world at large just too dumb to realize that "animal" by meghan trainor's aunt is just as much a hit as "all about that bass" or any other?

for my own part, I must concede that this is probably the first Trinidadian soca song I have ever heard in my life, and therefore must cede the judgement to someone more worldly.

counting on you ILM!

is it a square/rectangle type thing, where all her hits are shits, but not every shit is a hit?

Oh, the Hits You Will Shit

She should call it Meghan Trainor's Greatest Shits and the cover should be a parody of that Millie Jackson album sleeve where she's sat on the pot, holding her shoe and pulling her shit face.

I just want to say I love how bizarre and butts

― rap steve (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, September 10, 2014 6:58 AM bookmarkflaglink

Every Time I Look Around, It's In My Face: The Summer of the Butt

― Euler, Wednesday, September 10, 2014 8:52 AM bookmarkflaglink

Officially #1 in the US.

― Greer, Wednesday, September 10, 2014 1:51 PM bookmarkflaglink

the butt or the song