NEW YORK — Ten years ago, Meghan Coach was a successful songwriter, who would soon become a successful pop artist in her own right. “All About That Bass” established the then 20-year-old as a new force channeling old sounds – a combination of doo-wop with contemporary pop hooks in an era dominated by great synthesizers – and with something to say. Her public persona intertwined with the song’s lyrics about body acceptance.
“I have my self-love pop hits that I only do in my sleep,” she told the Associated Press. “This is the therapy I need for myself. But it also helps people, so it’s a win-win as a songwriter.”
On Friday, Trainor will release their sixth studio album, “Eternal.” Messages of empowerment are still at the core of her specific sound, but now she’s matured them to get to where she is in life: as a mother, sister, and veteran in this business.
The first single, “Been Like This”, featuring his hero T painit even references “All About That Bass.” She sings: “Ooh-wee, she got that booty / That kind of boom-boom, that bass that I like.”
Becoming the first single? She calls it “destiny” and is quick to mention that her two brothers wrote on the song as well. “My mother was crying. I talked about him nonstop,” she says.
Family is at the center of “Timeless” and the music Trainor makes. Mother of two boys, she considers them in everything she does.
“’To The Moon’ is for my son because he loves rockets and outer space,” she says of 3-year-old Barry Bruce Trainor. it helps teach them how to love themselves as they grow, you know, self-confidence and being kind to themselves.”
And it’s for the listener too, of course. “I want to thank myself”, samples Niecy Nash-Betts Acceptance Speech at the 2024 Emmy Awards, where she said “And you know who I want to thank? Me, for believing in myself and doing what they said I couldn’t do. I want to say it to myself, in front of all you beautiful people – Come on girl, with your bad self, you did this.
“I kept writing self-confident songs, and that was one of the last songs I wrote for the album,” she says, adding that after a while, she didn’t know what to write about anymore. Then her manager sent her Nash’s speech. It was instant inspiration. The day after writing it, Trainor sent it to Nash, who filmed himself listening to it while sobbing.
“I invited Niecy, her daughter and her wife to come and sing on the album, singing the background of the song,” she adds. “So when you hear all these great vocals at the end, with a bunch of women singing, that’s us.”
“Rollin’,” with its big strings, brass and bass, also has something of a feminist message, which Trainor says was inspired by experiences she’s had in the music industry, like seeing her manager called an assistant because she’s a woman. “More women in the industry, everywhere, would get sick,” she says.
To protect her peace in this business, she simply says: “ I’m taking antidepressants I went up after baby number two, I was losing sleep,” she says. “So I took my medicine and went to my therapist. I try to see her every Wednesday and I try to vocalize a lot when I’m feeling overwhelmed.”
This is related to the album. “Timeless,” the title, derives from Trainor’s “big, big, big, big fear of death,” as she puts it.
“When you have kids, you think, ‘Oh, this is the meaning of life. I have to stay here forever,’” she says. “Instead of living with this fear that I have every morning, day and night, I want to live. Like, ‘Wow. We are very lucky, we are here. We spent all this time together. And that’s why I’m trying to understand the word ‘timeless’.”
This fall, Trainor will tour for the first time in seven years — also her first time on the road since becoming a mother. “I’m in the gym like an Olympic athlete,” she jokes. “I’m going to get in good shape and then start practicing.” Dancing and singing at the same time is not an easy task and “I want to dance a lot”, she says.
Furthermore, your goals are to put on a great show and keep the family involved every step of the way. “I’m going to try to make it fun, where each state does something fun with the kids,” she says. “It will be an explosion. I lined everything up so we can’t have fun.
And potentially create some timeless memories?
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