Meghan Trainor

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