Meghan Trainor is dancing her way through the pain, as the GRAMMY-winning singer has returned with the new album, Toy With Me, bright and beautiful but fueled by some real tough emotions behind-the-scenes.
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Trainor recently stopped by for an Audacy Check In with Bru, and told us that a combo of kids, learning about herself, and a barrage of online criticism served as the backdrop to her latest effort, writing Toy With Me as a form of “therapy.”
“I'm overwhelmed and frustrated and angry and learning about my body still, like ADHD, I just got diagnosed with,” Meghan reveals. “All my 3 kids are at that young age where they're going to school and they're picking up germs, so all in one week there's been a lot of diarrhea and pink eye, and infections and, so I'm very overwhelmed, and angry.”
“I was very angry and sassy, like ‘Get In Girl,’ was written about a real breakup that happened in my family, and so I was so heartbroken. A lot of my online content I just got so much hate for the first time ever, like back right back on my body. Everyone just wants to talk about my body and it was heartbreaking, but I got to write all these bangers out of it and so I'm using this album as my therapy to get me out of this little dark overwhelmed cloud that I'm in. So I can go dance and party and celebrate and escape this crazy world for a minute.”
After running through some of her music video moments from Toy With Me, the talk turned to Meghan’s personal life, which includes a recent renewal of vows with her husband, and having 3 children. For Meghan her experience in being a Pop star has laser focused some of the feelings all parents have, especially with her daughter. “A majority of my job is being commented on, on my body and it's never about like my talent or my songs anymore. It's all like what she looks like her with bangs, her outfits, her choices, and I wanted to write on this album like, ‘buckle up daughter like this world it's gonna be a little bit rough for us,’ but I didn't end up doing that. I just wrote these big anthems that are like, ‘I don't care about what people think. It's OK.’”
“I went in that direction instead of just being sad,” she adds. “It changes a lot, it's just like highlighted. I think everyone feels these things with social media, but mine has like 18 million people looking.”
For much more from Meghan Trainor, check out the full Audacy Check In above. Toy With Me is now available everywhere.
The singer unpacks it all with Bru for an Audacy Check In
The singer unpacks it all with Bru for an Audacy Check In
