Meghan calls back to “All About That Bass”. She might not mind that her lover likes “a little more booty to hold at night”, but that doesn’t mean she wants to be only known for her assets. She has good words to say too!
It’s a variation on the “my face is up here” expression women have to tell the easily distracted.
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Referencing back to her song All About That Bass again, she gave him sex, which was all he wanted, and in return he gave her nice compliments and flattery and whatnot. Sort of a secret deal that he had made unbeknownst to her.
“Number one” also ties in on how “Bass” topped music charts worldwide. Except anyone can flatter her with that fact.
― please login or register if you are (unregistered), Saturday, 17 January 2015 02:49 (nine years ago) link
T/F: substantial overlap btw Meghan Trainor fans and people who are still saying "hot mess" a lot
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Saturday, 17 January 2015 02:56 (nine years ago) link
T?
my sister likes to hold her baby daughter upright with her feet on the floor and make her 'dance' to 'All About That Bass'. it makes me very embarrassed for all parties involved.
― please login or register if you are (unregistered), Saturday, 17 January 2015 03:07 (nine years ago) link
Billboard wrote that Trainor had solidified herself as the "queen of her own genre, 'she-wop'".
― hunangarage, Saturday, 17 January 2015 03:11 (nine years ago) link
:/
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Saturday, 17 January 2015 03:12 (nine years ago) link
she-wop, he-wop, a we-wop
― Let me help you out Charlie XCX fan (DJP), Saturday, 17 January 2015 03:21 (nine years ago) link
"solidified"
― salthigh, Saturday, 17 January 2015 03:22 (nine years ago) link
During the Watergate scandal, President Richard Nixon referred to United States District Court Judge John Sirica as a "gol' darn wop."
― salthigh, Saturday, 17 January 2015 03:25 (nine years ago) link
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
― james brooks, Saturday, 17 January 2015 03:54 (nine years ago) link
ho-wop is legendary
― some dude, Saturday, 17 January 2015 03:55 (nine years ago) link
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.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Saturday, 17 January 2015 04:56 (nine years ago) link
what'd you end up getting?
― Mordy, Saturday, 17 January 2015 05:03 (nine years ago) link
a bunch of stuff! ali akbar khan and some pretty rare "ethnic" LPs from the 1950s.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Sunday, 18 January 2015 23:36 (nine years ago) link
NICE
― breakfast josiah (los blue jeans), Monday, 19 January 2015 05:20 (nine years ago) link
http://www.clickhole.com/blogpost/i-am-new-person-you-have-know-about-now-1784
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 January 2015 19:55 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqzDy9rw8oQ
― crüt, Thursday, 25 February 2016 22:52 (eight years ago) link
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?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 28 May 2016 13:26 (eight years ago) link
she's on TSA's no sing list.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 28 May 2016 13:28 (eight years ago) link
"me too" and "no" are fantastic
i love what she's doing
― james brooks, Saturday, 28 May 2016 16:35 (eight years ago) link
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.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 28 May 2016 17:01 (eight years ago) link
"me too" and "no" are fantastic i love what she's doing --james brooks
i love what she's doing --james brooks
Great songs, great excuses for Ricky Reed beats. People are judging her unfairly for sure
― queen elseq of ærendelle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 28 May 2016 17:10 (eight years ago) link
i think she'll go away before long
― dyl, Saturday, 28 May 2016 17:11 (eight years ago) link
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
― james brooks, Saturday, 28 May 2016 17:27 (eight years ago) link
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), Saturday, 28 May 2016 17:36 (eight years ago) link
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!
― queen elseq of ærendelle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 28 May 2016 17:41 (eight years ago) link
whiney as meghan trainor apologist is a SURPRISE PLOT REVEAL
― ulysses, Saturday, 28 May 2016 17:56 (eight years ago) link
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?
― queen elseq of ærendelle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 28 May 2016 18:23 (eight years ago) link
*quirked out
The rest of the record I do not really care for
― queen elseq of ærendelle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 28 May 2016 18:24 (eight years ago) link
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
― ulysses, Saturday, 28 May 2016 18:36 (eight years ago) link
Maybe I'm a rockist because if En Vogue came back in 2001 with NO I'd probably be into it?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 28 May 2016 18:43 (eight years ago) link
But they can sing and can hire beats.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 28 May 2016 18:45 (eight years ago) link
"me too" is fucking horrible you guys
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Saturday, 28 May 2016 20:12 (eight years ago) link
"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
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Saturday, 28 May 2016 20:16 (eight years ago) link
"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
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Saturday, 28 May 2016 22:24 (eight years ago) link
though i find her pretty ignorable as terrible and bafflingly successful pop stars go, so there's that
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Saturday, 28 May 2016 22:26 (eight years ago) link
both new singles actually are good though. largely because serviceable c-tier r&b-pop tracks from 2002 were and are generally pretty good
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Saturday, 28 May 2016 22:30 (eight years ago) link
her singing tho
― the hallouminati (lex pretend), Saturday, 28 May 2016 22:32 (eight years ago) link
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)
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Saturday, 28 May 2016 22:33 (eight years ago) link
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
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Saturday, 28 May 2016 22:34 (eight years ago) link
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
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Saturday, 28 May 2016 22:36 (eight years ago) link
making you miss DA GUDOLDAAAAAAYZ, eh?
― ulysses, Sunday, 29 May 2016 01:10 (eight years ago) link
no is a very bad song
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 29 May 2016 02:27 (eight years ago) link
I think she is bad
― kind of lolth but mostly strahd (los blue jeans), Sunday, 29 May 2016 03:07 (eight years ago) link
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"
― like $500 billion in stuffed fart sales and I have an idea (contenderizer), Sunday, 29 May 2016 03:17 (eight years ago) link
you are all making me question my immediate loathing of "me too"
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Sunday, 29 May 2016 03:25 (eight years ago) link
I haven't heard me too but if it isn't about the day AOL got on usenet then I'm not interested
― kind of lolth but mostly strahd (los blue jeans), Sunday, 29 May 2016 03:44 (eight years ago) link
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.
― queen elseq of ærendelle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 29 May 2016 04:03 (eight years ago) link
"no" does sound like a subpar album cut from that late 90s/early 00s era. or maybe an interlude.
― dyl, Sunday, 29 May 2016 06:29 (eight years ago) link
lotta dismissive attitudes towards m-train for a message board that was once ground zero for pipettes hyperfandom imo
― james brooks, Sunday, 29 May 2016 06:57 (eight years ago) link