Words: Jessica Fogarty
Sounding as she does and citing sinatra as an es influence? Who the hell do ? Meghan Trainor think she is ollowing her global super-smash hit single, ‘All About That Bass’, Meghan Trainor returned to the limelight early 2015 with the release of her second single, ‘Lips Are Movin’. With an unmistakable sound, this track is another tasty slice of her unique contemporary take on doo-wop influenced pop. While the song may be caked in Meghan’s sunny feel-good sentiment, the underlying theme is once again close to many a girl’s heart – calling out promiscuous, unfaithful men. Late January also saw the release of her debut album ‘Title’ – one of the most highly anticipated albums of 2015. It looks like the bubbly American songstress is set to cement her position as the most exciting new pop star on the planet. Student Mag finds out how, in less than a year, Meghan Trainor has gone from being a successful, but relatively unknown songwriter, to being a Grammy nominated global star… At just 21 years old, you must be so proud of
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your achievements? For the rest of my life, I’ll be introduced as ‘Grammy nominated Meghan Trainor’. That’s fricking epic. What has been the biggest highlight of the past year? I just had a new one! My birthday was everything. I had an arena of 20,000 people sing Happy Birthday to me ‘cause of Nick Jonas. Who I’m like, the biggest fan of. You’ve also had artists like Beyoncé saying that they’re fans of your music. Yeah, that, that was huge for me! And Michael Bublé did a cover of ‘All About That Bass’ on Instagram. How did you feel about that? I’m obsessed with him. One of my goals in life, like off my bucket list, is make sure Michael Bublé knows I exist and like the fact that he sang my song I died. I saw it on Instagram and I was just, I remember I was lying in bed and I just got up and was like ‘MUM did you see it?’ she