Meghan Trainor reveals the inspiration behind ‘Remind Me’




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Meghan Trainor sat down with CNN to discuss life after ‘All About That Bass’, her new album, and the importance of self-love.

The American singer-songwriter joined the show “Who’s Talking To Chris Wallace?” from CNN. this week to discuss his fifth studio album, “Takin’ It Back,” which was released on Friday.

The album is full of catchy pop songs like “Made You Look”. But throughout the album, Trainor also tackles tough topics, like her changing relationship with her body and her self-esteem after becoming a mother.

“I noticed that the first songs were kind of heartbreaking. They were sad at first,” she said. “And I was like, no, I’m happier than I’ve ever been. Why am I sad?

“Remind Me,” the album’s 15th track, began as a meditation on how “it’s really hard to be covered in scars,” Trainor said. The musician welcomed the birth of her first child via C-section in February 2021.

“And this is me singing for my husband, because he always tells me, I’m pretty and I’m like, I feel like with the stretch marks and the cesarean, I have the feeling like I was torn apart. And it took me a while to love myself again and be able to look at my body after all those scars,” she said.

The album also addresses “mom guilt” and the difference between social media and reality, as in the song “Don’t I Make It Look Easy”.

“My early songs were about being a mother and not making it easy,” Trainor said. “I’m exhausted. And I’m a working mom and I have mom guilt. And I tried to make them understandable and put them in every song.

Trainor has always been a “melody queen,” starting every song with a melody, she says. But on this album, she focused more on the lyrics and the message behind each track.

“I would often sit on my piano before the songwriting session, do my homework and come up with an idea,” she said. “And luckily it worked every time, but I was like, I’ll do a chorus, and then I’ll let the songwriters in and we’ll create.”

Self-love is a recurring theme throughout all 16 songs on the album.

“That’s the hardest thing, and that’s why I write all these self-love songs because I’m like, believe in yourself,” she said. “You are amazing.”