Meghan Trainor

oh come on can a man not support confidence in curves and still suggest the teen going "da booty booty da booty booty" over chintzy retro-pop may be a flash in the pan

as a pop singer, i mean. i'm sure she'll continue to get to write for rascal flatts and whoever. might even sing country too.

the "buyin' groceries / buy, buyin' what you need" bit from "Dear Future Husband" would be great as the pitched-down hook for a mid-00s coke-rap banger

the video didn't suffer from the cringeworthy racial issues of Lily Allen or that Miley performance.

I guess it says something about the racial politics of 2014 that a white girl singing "I'M ALL ABOUT DAT BASS" in an accent that to my ears sounds vaguely imitative of an inexact "black" diction doesn't involve "cringeworthy racial issues" anymore.

tbf she apparently learned how to pronounce booty from her mother

She was born in Nantucket and grew up in Hyannis, MA.

so many alternative ass puns

i'm likely to hear this at karaoke night tonight, have to grin and bear it

I was totally unaware of this song until last night, when a friend posted this youtube cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyTTX6Wlf1Y

I actually kind of enjoyed the cover, and the original and its video when I tracked them down, in the same way I enjoy most of the referents above (Jive Bunny, Mambo #5, Katy Perry, Glee songs) -- as Sarahell said, fun and catchy pop, which I thought about as long as, say, Rebecca Black, and a good deal more than, say, anything I've seen from Pomplamoose. That said, Hurting2 otm re: racial politics imo.

These three:

http://38.media.tumblr.com/09132f3b7ad25d6ac72ff05c2bf2c1c5/tumblr_n8lwm6tb5e1sljr2xo1_500.png

I mean, they should get their own spin-off group right? Like, Meghan Trainor had a number two record at the end of summer, but then those three eyeless weirdos really shook things up.

I just want to say I love how bizarre and butts

Every Time I Look Around, It's In My Face: The Summer of the Butt

Officially #1 in the US.

putting money down now on at least one thinkpiece about the year's #1 singles being titled "shake it like a white girl"

Or "2014: A Bottom Heavy Year".

I just heard the "cleaned up" version of this on Radio Disney this morning. They replace the word booty with beauty. e.g. I'm bringing beauty back. Somehow makes the song even more ridiculous.

lmfao

I have missed beauty

i'm bringing cooties back

i'm bringing hootie back

i'm bringing rooty back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU4Y3A3oJRM

bringing snootie back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikL-18q7uQ4

bringing cutie rootie tootie little booty back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jI8kWdkzwY

hahaaaa

glad someone is finally bringing elevated standards of female beauty back to young kids

bringing pootie back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtCxvv8Y3Bs

My wife, who didn't grow up here, loves Nicki Minaj but I recently realized had never heard Baby Got Back and didn't know the sample. Playing her the original I was reminded of how it actually seemed like kind of a radical move at the time to have a pop hit talking about a body type not represented in mainstream media, especially one more associated, allegedly, with black preferences. Somehow now it doesn't feel so radical anymore, which I guess is a good thing for the culture. But like the "plus size model" has become such a popular, pat-ourselves-on-the-back thing that it's already been parodied by the Onion, and that makes Trainor's song seem to have a lot less bite. And I really wish I had a writing/posting style that sounded less stilted when discussing songs about big butts.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3577/3691506212_625d2eb3e0.jpg

I'm waiting for the fabled 'soca influences' to make an appearance before pitching for the challopy thinkpiece market. Reckon I could make upwards of £80 on this hot potato if I play my cards right.

I was hoping IHOP would bring back the Rooty Tooty Fresh 'N Fruity®, but apparently they did!

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/veTC7qteVis/hqdefault.jpg

pat-ourselves-on-the-back thing that it's already been parodied by the Onion

Senator Mix-A-Lot Sponsors Titties-On-Glass Legislation
NEWS IN BRIEF • Politics • Congress • Music • Legislation • ISSUE 38•42 • Nov 13, 2002

WASHINGTON, DC—Seeking to stem a four-year decline in freaky Yolandas throwing they titties on U.S. glass, U.S. Sen. Mix-A-Lot (B-WA) introduced sweeping new putting-'em-on-glass legislation Tuesday. "Now listen up, Uncle Sam / I wanna see soul sistas pressin' that ham / Make me say damn / I wanna rear-end 'em / So I'm callin' a Senate referendum / Bounce by the ounce don't make no fun / I'll take 'em by the ton, son," Mix-A-Lot said. "Don't hand this bill down to no committees / 'Cause Mix don't wait on monster titties / Note to my colleague Tom Daschle / That if the babies be gettin' bashful / No melons droppin' on my windshield / So get them nudie laws repealed." Mix-A-Lot then gave props to the authors of H.R. 1610, from which several key clauses were sampled.

ffs

I mean, I guess I should read the article and also I know that asking if so-and-so is a feminist is just a trap at this point but really, ffs

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bx3oB3ZCMAA_vkU.jpg

even if she considered herself one, she would so totally be a White Feminist(TM), so I have some degree of difficulty caring

I mean, even if she declared herself feminist, it wouldn't change my opinion of her music whatsoever

I've managed to avoid hearing her song in full ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

http://i.imgur.com/bqGVkwd.png

wut

That has to be fake. Please be fake.

I think if she'd actually had sextuplets it would have come up somewhere besides Wikipedia.

oh come on that's obviously vandalism

Well, yeah, but what a bizarre way to vandalise someone's page.

not that bizarre

(Opens envelope, reads:) "How bizarre??"

"all about that bass no trouble"
About 127,000 results (0.27 seconds)

Wanna know the rest? Hey, buy the sampling right.

I finally heard this song while listening to the radio in a rental car. It seems kind of dumb.

I heard someone completely blasting it driving around a parking garage on Friday night.

oh were you near an avis too

the bassline on this song is hilarious

she makes me miss duffy

That isn't a sentence I ever expected to read