Audacy Check In with Meghan Trainor

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Meghan Trainor joins us inside the Hard Rock Hotel New York to talk about her new song, "Still Don't Care," and her upcoming album, 'Toy With Me.'

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00:00this is your odyssey check-in we are here at the hard rock hotel new york with megan trainor

00:08hello uh still don't care is wonderful i love obviously the message the sound um how much did

00:15you care about selecting the the perfect initial single for this project oh we cared so much yeah

00:23the next single is a big battle right now no one has any idea what to go with it's all great things

00:28because we all love the song so much but picking singles is a nightmare yeah it is so hard to do

00:33that but um my truth right now is the still don't care song it's like truly how i feel i can't wait

00:40to be 30 something and like really not care what people think yeah but at 31 i still did and um i

00:47got a lot of comments that made me cry all night long and i have to stop and learn how to not give

00:53strangers so much power says my therapist and i agree so i wrote this song about it and it's helped

00:58me a lot and i can't wait to start performing it and truly believing it and feeling it is there a

01:02song or a lyric or something on this album that you think will surprise fans the most oh that's a

01:10really good question uh there's a few songs on this album that i think uh when i play it for people

01:15there's one song that jaws drop for can i say names of songs yes yep right yeah yeah they said yeah i'm

01:23gonna say shimmer oh they said no too late i said it shimmer yes there's a song called shimmer

01:28why because sonically is it a departure no it's like if i always call her if me too my song if i was

01:35you if she had an older sexier sister okay it's shimmer oh maybe younger maybe she's gen z but she's

01:41she's a cool girl what's and people freak out what's one thing from your childhood that you absolutely

01:47want to duplicate for your kids and one thing that you want to do differently oh my god do you have

01:52these written down somewhere how do you you're so good at this oh thank you uh one thing i want to

01:56do i want to make family memories like my my parents did a really good job at um we would have like

02:01disco nights where my dad would set up the disco lights by himself and we'd have dance parties

02:06and so now when i see like any kind of lights like christmas lights or any disco lights i get emotional

02:12and i love it so much um so i set up their playroom to have disco lights everywhere um

02:17and i want i try to do dance parties all the time with them they don't dance yet it's so frustrating

02:21and then something different i i'm really trying to because i heard my mom like not have the best

02:29self-talk about herself she like didn't take a picture for 50 years got you so that's where i get

02:35my insecurities from for sure yeah um and i'm trying to rewire my brain and just teach my kids like

02:40wake up look at yourself in the morning say hi riley i love you riley you're so handsome riley you

02:44know like self-positive love it wasn't a thing when i grew up so i want that to be for them uh what

02:51what's your favorite song that you've written for another artist one that's always been special

02:57to you um sledgehammer by fifth harmony is the banger in forever will be and i really want to sing

03:04it on tour i think i should do it when i mention it people are like yeah do it and they're about to

03:08like reunite you should just bring the girls out i i fought for it my dude i said just give it a

03:14minute they're gonna do it let's bring them on tour i think they're too cool for me honestly they

03:18can't open for me they're too cool yeah yeah speaking of writing for other artists you know uh

03:24sabrina carpenter the um oh my god it's about to be 10 years for the debut that you worked on yeah i

03:30mean what has it been like watching that trajectory of hers sabrina oh man i've been watching her

03:35since her first song that i wrote 10 years ago came out can't blame a girl for trying i love that

03:42song um i just watched i've never watched someone work so hard yeah she put in the work she did

03:47everything that everyone tells us to do and i just remember being like how come it's not clicking for

03:52people she's perfect like what is going on and then it only took one explosion song and then it was

03:58out of here yeah yeah and i the people tell people told me when i was 19 like it only takes one and i

04:05was like what do you mean they're like it just takes one song and all about that bass was my one song

04:09absolutely we're so excited for the new album the single the upcoming tour so thank you for taking

04:14out the time thank you oh my god thanks for talking about it love y'all

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