It’s been a decade, so that you may need forgotten, however when Meghan Trainor launched her 100% licensed bop debut single “All About That Bass” again in 2014, it was a smash. The doo-wop-adjacent track not solely hit No. 1 on the Billboard Scorching 100, it stayed there for eight consecutive weeks.
Trainor celebrated the tenth anniversary of her break-out smash on Monday (April 29) by dropping in to see Kelly Clarkson on her daytime discuss present, the place, not for nothing, the host famous that the track was the “best-selling track by a feminine artist of the earlier decade. That’s insane! I really feel such as you want an Olympic medal for that!”
What higher approach to fête the firestarter than teaming up with Clarkson for a duet, throughout which the 2 singers smiled and bopped their means by means of the lyrics about having all the suitable junk in all the suitable locations?
“I see the magazines workin’ that Photoshop/ We all know that it ain’t actual/ Come on now, make it cease/ In the event you obtained magnificence, simply elevate ’em up/ ‘Trigger each inch of you is ideal/ From the underside to the highest,” Trainor sang as Clarkson added spot-on ad-libs and the 2 girls fell into excellent concord on the physique constructive pre-chorus.
“Yeah, my mama she informed me don’t fear about your measurement/ She says, boys like a bit of extra booty to carry at night time/ And no I gained’t be no stick-figure, silicone Barbie doll/ So, if that’s what’s you’re into/ Then go forward and transfer alongside,” they harmonized earlier than Clarkson took heart stage on the subsequent verse and warranted her studio viewers that “each inch of you is ideal from the underside to the highest.”
Trainor caught round to talk as nicely, with the singer gushing about how within the years because the track has grow to be an anthem for thus many followers that she now considers it her “tremendous energy.” She additionally talked about her first tour in seven years and the logistics of touring together with her two younger children, with Clarkson warning that touring with youngsters (and canines) goes to be a problem. “Can I provide you with a tip?,” Clarkson mentioned concerning the guilt she famous many feminine musicians have about being on the street with households.
“You are feeling like it’s a must to get up with them… don’t do this!” fellow mom of two Clarkson recommended. “Cuz your voice will hate you.”
Trainor not too long ago introduced that her sixth studio album, Timeless, is due out on June 14 from Epic Data and dropped the T-Ache-featuring single “Been Like This,” in addition to saying the dates for her Timeless tour, slated to kick off in Cincinnati in September.
Watch Trainor and Clarkson sing “All About That Bass” under.