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Forward of the discharge of her new album Takin’ It Again, Meghan Trainor sat down with Billboard News host Tetris Kelly to debate the inspirations behind the venture and the way it feels to go viral on TikTok along with her 2015 observe “Title.”
The singer defined that her previous catalog impressed what’s to come back on the brand new file, set for launch in October. “I’m taking it again to my sound that apparently I had, as a result of I began writing and one in every of my co-writers have been like, ‘It’s loopy, these artists are coming in saying I wish to do Meghan Trainor sound,’” she stated. “I’ve the doo-wop sound. On the identical time, ‘Title’ blew up on TikTok. I used to be like, ‘Wow, universe is speaking to me, and I’m listening.’”
Followers may even be delighted to know that Trainor’s collaboration with Natti Natasha has lastly come to fruition after teasing it on social media. Whereas the women have but to satisfy in particular person, the 28-year-old revealed their observe got here collectively on the final potential second: “I haven’t even met her but! I’ve DM’d her and he or she’s pretty. We have been instructed, ‘It’s not gonna occur,’ and the day the album was due, vinyl and every thing, she recorded her verse that morning. I used to be like…’She’s down?!?’ So yeah, I simply acquired actually fortunate.”
Trainor’s again catalog has seen viral success on TikTok not too long ago after her observe “Title” made waves on the social media app, seven years after the music’s preliminary launch. Although some artists can really feel burdened by posting on TikTok to appease their file labels, Trainor says the app has been a blessing in disguise.
“If you really feel uncreative, I can see how that’s annoying, however if you lastly hit with a video or when ‘Title’ blew up, I felt prefer it was my birthday each day,” Trainor says. “I assumed it was the best factor ever. It’s the quickest option to join with followers. It’s the very best place to get an entire new viewers, and now I’m obsessive about TikTok and I’m obsessive about posting. I’m continuously like, ‘What concepts can I do?’ … If a brand new artist requested me what I ought to do with music, I’d be like, ‘Get a TikTok.’”
Watch Meghan Trainor’s interview with Billboard News within the video above.
