Too cool to cry and too hot to stress, the one and only Meghan Trainor steps into the Hard Rock Hotel New York for an Audacy Check In this week, fresh with her new single, "Still Don't Care," and on the way to the release of her seventh studio album, Toy With Me.
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"My truth right now is the 'Still Don't Care' song. It's truly how I feel," Trainor tells Mike Adam. "I can't wait to be 30-something and like really not care what people think, but at 31 I still did, and I got a lot of comments that made me cry all night long and I have to stop and learn how to not give strangers so much power, says my therapist, and I agree. So I wrote this song about it and it's helped me a lot and I can't wait to start performing it and truly believing it and feeling it."
The new album, Toy With Me, arrives everywhere on April 24, and Meghan will embark on The Get In Girl Tour starting in June. When asked if there's anything that will surprise fans on Toy With Me, Meghan gave us a sneak peek into the song "Shimmer."
"There's a few songs on this album that I think, when I play it for people, there's one song that jaws drop," she reveals. "There's a song called 'Shimmer.'"
"I always call her if my song 'Me Too,' if she had an older sexier sister, it's 'Shimmer.' Maybe younger, maybe she's Gen Z, but she's a cool girl and people freak out."
Speaking of songs, after naming "Sledgehammer" by Fifth Harmony as her favorite track she's written for another artist, Mike asked Meghan about her front row seat to watching Sabrina Carpenter's star rise to stratospheric levels. Trainor penned Sabrina's debut single, "Can't Blame a Girl For Trying," in 2014, and has always known it would only take one song to make her massive.
"I've been watching her since her first song that I wrote 10 years ago came out, 'Can't Blame a Girl for Trying.' I love that song," remembers Meghan. "I've never watched someone work so hard. She put in the work, she did everything that everyone tells us to do, and I just remember being like, 'how come it's not clicking for people? She's perfect. Like what is going on?'"
"It only took one explosion song and then it was out of here. People told me when I was 19 like, 'It only takes one,' and I was like, 'what do you mean?' They're like, 'it just takes one song' and 'All About That Bass' was my one song."
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