For a while I've felt uneasy about all the seemingly unending praise for Meghan Trainor. Her supposedly 'feminist' and body positive song 'All about that Bass' based all of it's self-loving message on what men want, and simultaneously shamed skinny women. Although she has defended herself saying that she immediately says 'nah i'm just kidding', is it really necessary to include it in the first place?

She then went on to release 'Dear Future Husband', which at the least is confusing and at the worst something straight out of a 'how to jump back in time to the 1950's' manual. The video features her scrubbing a flaw and the lyric 'I'll be the perfect wife / Buying groceries / Buying what you need'. Not exactly the feminist sentiment she seems like she's trying to project at the moment.


In her latest video, 'NO', she is attempting to portray a strong independant woman who doesn't need a man, but 'If I want a man, then I'mma get a man'. The song itself is a good song, catchy enough, i'm not saying it's bad at all but the style, again, flags up something that makes me frustrated.

In interviews Meghan has said that she is 'bringing music back' and that she is bringing 'instruments and doo-wop feeling', yet she seems to have ditched all of this for recycled noughties music. I love noughties music, but I feel like she should at least recognise what got her to where she is, the fact that 'All about that bass' has over 1,000,000,000+ views on youtube, but 'NO' has only 120,000,000 views is very telling (Yes of course AATB has been up longer, but it's undoubtable that NO has had a significantly worse reception). Also, just something I noticed in the 'NO' video, all of the dancer's are the 'skinny bitches' she talked about in AATB - none of them were above a UK size 10.



I feel that if Meghan had just stuck to the original style of AATB and 'Lips are Movin' it would be so much better for her image, and I feel like people would receive her better - I mean 'Better When I'm Dancing' is a great, happy, fun song that I think should have been promoted as much as 'NO'.

What do you think about Meghan's music?