Meghan Trainer

She's all about positivity! By: Grace

To get to know her, you should know...

Meghan Trainor is a pop sensation who makes sure all girls feel like they matter. With a flawless balance of sassy pop ballads and encouraging social posts, Meghan, whom I most likely will call “Meggy” somewhere in here, will probably end up saving girls all over with her Don’t-hate-yourself-okay? vibes, and I absolutely love her music, I’ve loved her music since before I was old enough to know what any of it meant.

In contrast, may I say that influencers tend to make girls feel horrible about themselves because all girls look at nowadays is people being little human stick bugs??? These influencers often promote unrealistic body standards that can lead to feelings of inadequacy and shame among young girls. Meghan Trainor's music offers a refreshing counter-narrative, encouraging girls to love their bodies just the way they are and reject these harmful ideals.

But moving on to little meggy!

Meghan started singing at a very young age, as she did not wish to have any formal music training, so she just winged it! She was in a cover band made up of her family members called Island Fusion, which, if you ask me, sounds more like a Pina Colada than a cover band, but whatever. Anyway, she did the whole Island Fusion thing until she was twelve when she started using GarageBand to make her compositions. She began writing songs for others to sing by eighteen. She didn’t like her figure and the fact that she was one of the girls who had a thicker body type (sorry if that’s offensive, Meggy) and she was discouraged by this, but that quickly changed and she said “Nah to the Ah to the No No No” to her self hatred (that was a quote from Meghan’s hit song “No”) and she absolutely dominated the stage after she got a record deal with Epic Records’ own L.A. Reid! After all that, you can thank her Mom for supporting her through all of it! She says in her song “Mom” that “You might have a mom, she might be the bomb but ain’t nobody got a mom like mine.”

Music Career

Meghan was, as I mentioned, in a cover band that consisted of some of her family members called Island Fusion (again, Pina Colada), and she had played Bob Marley and all sorts of other stuff, but more importantly, they played Meghan’s compositions, so the world got a taste of Meghan before she even started writing lyrics, which she began at eighteen, even though that wasn’t very successful, and she wrote her song “Give Me A Chance” to pass the time, which gave her the idea to go to a music conference. There she meets former NRBQ employee Al Anderson, and he liked her music and personality in general, so he referred her to his boss, Carla Wallace, and Carla pointed her in the vague direction of Epic Records, so Meggy tried to find someone to sing her song, “All About That Bass” for the chairmen, but no one could or would or wanted to, and so Meggy had to sing it herself over a recording from the studio. L.A. Reid, the chairman who was reviewing the recording, sent for Meggy the same day he heard her, and according to an interview, she had no cell phone in the waiting room to distract herself and was so nervous that she could’ve sworn she may have hurled on the floor at any given moment. L.A Reid gave Meghan a record label that proved she could do practically anything music related and also boosted her confidence.

Marriage and Motherhood

Meghan Married Daryl Sabara, who played Juni Cortez in his most famous act, “Spy Kids,” whom some of you may recognize him from. They then had two kids who were soon named Riley and Barry. So far, Riley is 4 and Barry is 1 and 8 months, and the parade won’t stop there since she’s planning to have four kids, at least! (so she says) Meghan has said Daryl has measured up to all of the things she said in “Dear Future Husband” Like you would expect, pregnancy wasn’t easy, but thanks to that we now have a book written by her, called Dear Future Mama, a guide to how to handle pregnancy and tiny children.

Outroduction

This go-getter gal is the queen of self-positivity, so it's best to take it all as a reminder that not only is everyone worthy of praise, but everyone can also get it thanks to us considerate kids. The future of us starts now, so we had all better get out there and let everyone know they’re all equally loved.

Good Luck Changing the World, my friends!


Sources:

Kiddle.com https://www.kiddle.co/s.php?q=Meghan+Trainor

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meghan_Trainor

People //people.com

Dear Future Mama: A TMI Guide to Pregnancy, Birth, and New Motherhood