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When 2014 began, Massachusetts native Meghan Trainor was an aspiring artist and little-known songwriter with big dreams. A multi-instrumentalist who was producing her own tracks at age 13, Trainor had penned a handful of songs for artists like Rascal Flatts and Hunter Hayes by the time she brought her ukulele to audition for Epic Records chief L.A. Reid last February. “Afterward, I sat alone in the conference room with no cell phone thinking I’d blown it,” she recalls. However by the time 2014 ended, Trainor, who turned 21 in December, was a full-blown pop star with a multi-week No. 1 single, two Grammy nominations, and a 100% sold out THAT BASS TOUR.
Last June, Trainor’s debut “All About That Bass” — a supremely catchy body-positivity ode that she wrote to encourage herself and other curvy girls to love themselves no matter what — quickly became one of the best-selling singles of all time, topping the charts in 58 countries. It spent a record-breaking eight weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, was certified 6x-platinum, and earned Trainor and her co-writer and producer Kevin Kadish 2015 Grammy nominations for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. (Its candy-colored video has been viewed over 480 million times and counting.) Trainor turned in jubilant performances of “All About That Bass” everywhere from The Ellen DeGeneres Show to The Tonight Show’s music room (backed by Jimmy Fallon and The Roots playing classroom instruments) and did a victory lap across the U.S. on The Jingle Ball Tour, which culminated in Nick Jonas leading 20,000 people in singing “Happy Birthday” to her at the show in Tampa. “All About That Bass” quickly became a cultural phenomenon, its popularity making it a ripe target for parody, inspiring NASA’s “All About That Space” and Nerdist’s Star Wars-themed “All About That Base: No Rebels.” Even Justin Bieber covered the song, posting a remix with Maejor Ali to YouTube in October. “When I saw that, I was like, ‘That’s it. I’m famous. It’s done,’” Trainor says.
Title is the work of a singular talent and it’s obvious from listening to it that Trainor may be young, but she is no newbie to the craft of songwriting. Growing up on the island of Nantucket, an hour boat ride and two-hour drive from Boston, Trainor turned to making music at age 11, partially because there wasn’t much else to do. Her father, a musician, played her James Brown, Ray Charles, jazz, and doo-wop records, the latter striking a chord in her. “It was the catchiest stuff,” she says. “The Chordettes’ ’Lollipop’ — that was my jam,” she says. When Trainor showed an aptitude for writing songs, her dad got her a MacBook with GarageBand. “As a kid, I thought Britney Spears wrote her own songs. I thought everyone did, And I was like, ‘Well, I've got to get going if I want to be a pop star, right? So let's do this,’" she says. After self-releasing two albums, she landed a publishing deal at 18 and, instead of accepting the full scholarship offered by Boston’s prestigious Berklee College of Music, Trainor spent her late teens flying back and forth between her home and Los Angeles to team up with producers and artists on songwriting sessions.
In a writing session with Kadish, a Grammy-nominated producer and songwriter who’s also worked with Miley Cyrus and Jason Mraz, inspiration struck in the form of “All About That Bass,” which came out in 40 minutes. “When it first became a hit, I was like, ‘This is going to last for a second.’ Now it has a life of its own,” she says. It has also changed her life. “Over the last year, I've made a bunch of new friends and I've grown up a lot,” she says. “I can say I've done things that a lot of 21-year-olds haven't done. Every single one of my dreams has already come true. That's pretty cool. I did all of it. Now I need to make a new goal board!”
Meghan’s current single “Dear Future Husband” has been certified Platinum, marking the third consecutive platinum single from her debut album Title.