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Meghan Trainor sat down with Newz9 to debate life after “All About That Bass,” her new album and the significance of self-love.
The American singer-songwriter joined Newz9’s “Who’s Talking To Chris Wallace?” this week to debate her fifth studio album, “Takin’ It Back,” which was launched on Friday.
The album is stuffed with upbeat pop songs like “Made You Look.” But all through the album, Trainor additionally touches on tough subjects, like her shifting relationship with her physique and shallowness after changing into a mom.
“I noticed the first few songs were kind of heartbreaking. They were sad at first,” she stated. “And I was like, no, I’m happier than I’ve ever been. Why am I sad?”
“Remind Me,” the 15th observe on the album, began as a meditation on how “it’s really hard being covered in scars,” stated Trainor. The musician welcomed the birth of her first child by way of Caesarean part in February 2021.
“And it’s me singing to my husband, because he tells me all the time, I’m pretty and I’m like, I feel like with the stretch marks and the C-section, I feel like I’ve been ripped apart. And it took me a while to like myself again and to be able to look at my body after all that scarring,” she stated.
The album additionally touches on “mom guilt” and the distinction between social media and actuality, like within the song “Don’t I Make It Look Easy.”
“My first songs were like about being a mom and about like, don’t I make this look easy,” Trainor stated. “I’m exhausted. And I’m a working mom and I have mom guilt. And I tried to make them relatable and put them in every song.”
Trainor has traditionally been a “melody queen,” beginning every song with a melody, she says. But on this album, she targeted extra on the lyrics and message behind every tune.
“I would sit on my piano a lot before the songwriting session, I would do homework, and I would have an idea,” she stated. “And, luckily, it worked every single time, but I was like, I’ll do a chorus and then I’ll let the songwriters come in and we’ll craft.”
Self-love is a recurring theme all through the 16 songs on the album.
“It’s the hardest thing, and that’s why I write all these self love songs because I’m like, believe in yourself,” she stated. “You’re amazing.”