Meghan Trainor

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