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Meghan Trainor is an American singer, born in 1993 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. She is primarily known for her 2014 hit single, All About That Bass.

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18 Mar, 2015

On Air interview

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Seacrest interviews Trainor during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about the MTrain Tour and how she chooses special fans for a personal meet and greet.

I’m almost done with this first leg of this tour. Which is unreal because I feel like I just started.

Sometimes when a girl cries a lot, I’ll definitely take her to meet and greet. Or a lot of times, my tour manager will have little nieces, and I’ll take them or family members. In Boston, I had my own two cousins come up.

20 Dec, 2014

Billboard cover

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bb42-meghan-trainor-cover-2014-billboard-510Trainor appears on one of four covers of a December 2014 issue of Billboard magazine. She talks about her song All About That Bass.

I came to my session with producer Kevin Kadish with a list of titles, and immediately I was like, ‘Let’s do booty! And thickness! Like, it’s about the bass, not the treble,’ and he was into it. When you have a session, it’s like a blind date — you meet a stranger and make nice with them. He was telling me how he loved ’50s stuff, and I told him how I listened to Frank Sinatra before every session. He started making this beat to make it modern, and I started the first verse freestyle because I was like, ‘I rap.’ When a little white girl walks in and says, ‘I’m a rapper,’ they don’t actually want you to rap. But he was all about it.

19 Nov, 2014

Cosmopolitan feature

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meghan-trainor-freaked-out-after-justin-bieber-covered-songTrainor is featured in Cosmopolitan magazine. She talks about dieting and working out, dating, and Justin Bieber.

I got the call [that he remixed the song] … They said, ‘Check your email,’ and I freaked out, and I played it like a hundred times.

11 Nov, 2014

Meghan Trainor interview

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Seacrest interviews Trainor during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about her song All About That Bass and being signed by L.A Ried.

We pitched the song to every label, and we knew that no one would cut it, ever, cause it’s very specific. And [Epic] was one of the last labels. And the A&R was playing it and L.A. popped his head in and was like, ‘What’s that?’ And they were like, ‘It’s a song from Nashville.’ And [L.A.] said, ‘Well, go sign her! Who is she? Go find the voice!

Meghan Trainor Shares Career Turning Point | On Air with Ryan Seacrest

5 Nov, 2014

CMA Awards performance

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Trainor performs her single, All About That Bass, with Lambert at the 48th Annual CMA Awards. Lambert:

She’s got like, some moves and she’s like, 20 and I’m 30, so there’s that gap. I’m like, ‘Woah, I need some coffee.’ When she walks in the room, she has so much energy! I was like, ‘Woah, I gotta perk up!’

7 Oct, 2014

All About That Bass pitched to Beyoncé

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All About That Bass was offered to other artists, including Beyonce, before Trainor eventually recorded it, although Trainor admits that Beyoncé most likely never actually heard the song personally:

Some artists get thousands of songs pitched and they never know, so Beyoncé herself probably never heard it.

5 Oct, 2014

First UK No.1 single

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Trainor’s single, All About That Bass, is one of the fastest selling tracks in the U.K. so far this year. Her song jumps 32 places to the number one spot this week.

It feels unreal! I still don’t believe it! Especially on my first single. It’s incredible!

2 Oct, 2014

‘Shames thin women’

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Trainor is criticized for her single, All About That Bass.The artist has been allegedly accused of “shaming” thin woman in the song:

Yeah, I’m still getting flak. It’ll come for as long as the song lives, but for the most part people are relating to the self-acceptance part of it, which is amazing, because that was my point.

1 Oct, 2014

Tops Billboard chart

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All About That Bass leads the all-female dominated top five songs on the Billboard Top 100 chart for a fourth straight week. The streak is the longest stretch where women have locked men out of the top five position in the chart’s 56-year history.

24 Sep, 2014

Collaboration

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Trainor tells that she will be teaming up with Legend in a song on her upcoming debut album.

I wrote the song like years ago and it wasn’t going to make my album but my Uncle Burton Toney, the man, my Trinidadian uncle [he is married to Meghan’s aunt] he met my managers and forced them to listen. ‘He said you need to hear this song, she didn’t show you this song, you need to hear it. And I thought because it wasn’t shoo-wop vibey I blanked out, and the girl, my manager, listened to it and started crying and she’s like ‘You know you’ve got to cut this, right?’

So then I cut it, I produced a version with my friend and they sent it to John because he’s on my management company and he’s like ‘I love this I want to be a part of it’…It’s gonna be cool.

18 Sep, 2014

Shake it Off performance

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Trainor puts her own twist on Taylor Swift’s song on the the Australian radio show, Dan and Maz. In the middle of the song she breaks into a rap:

Hey, say Taylor, shake ’em off / Come on, don’t let ’em get to ya / Go ahead and dance like there ain’t nobody watchin’ ya / Shake like your polaroid picture / You got the fans like we wanna dance wit ya.

9 Sep, 2014

Title

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Trainor releases the title track from her upcoming debut EP Title.

The songs on my EP have kind of the doo-wop feel, but they’re different lyrically.

Meghan Trainor - Title (Official Audio)

5 Sep, 2014

Dear Future Husband

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Trainor releases her second single titled Dear Future Husband. The single will be featured on her upcoming EP titled Title.

Meghan Trainor - Dear Future Husband (Official Audio)

4 Sep, 2014

All About the Bass performance

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Trainor sings her single All About That Bass with Jimmy Fallon and The Roots. The performance only uses classroom toys as musical instruments.

Jimmy Fallon, Meghan Trainor & The Roots Sing "All About That Bass" (w/ Classroom Instruments)