On Air interview
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.
Billboard cover
Trainor 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.
‘Shames thin women’
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.
Cosmopolitan interview
Trainor speaks about All About That Bass, which has received 1.7 million views on YouTube. When asked if she has always had a positive attitude about her own body image:
No, no, not at all. I didn’t know how cool I was until just recently. I wish I knew how cool I was in high school, you know? And I see my little cousins — now they have Instagram at 13. I didn’t have Instagram, but I’m pretty sure I would have been more confused about everything if I did at that age. I wrote it to help me as well. And it has helped me because people have been complimenting me like, ‘Man, you look good in that video!’ and I’m like, ‘Yeah I do!’ If I help other people that’s just another dream come true.
Today Show interview
Trainor speaks with The Today Show’s Savannah Guthrie about her YouTube video for All About That Bass.
