Meghan Trainor shuts down "skinny shaming" criticism
In an interview with popjustice:
Quote:
PJ: There are two ‘controversial’ aspects to your single. The first is that a lot of people claim you’re criticising skinny people in a song that’s ostensibly about feeling good about your weight.
MT: Yeah. Oh God man, I don’t criticise skinny people! I would never shame a skinny person! I don’t know who would want to. I guess they stop listening immediately after I say ‘skinny bitches’ and just turn it off. But I say, ‘…just kidding, I know even you think you are fat’. For instance, I have skinny friends and some of them will stand in front of the mirror and go, ‘eugh, I’m just like so big’. And I’m standing there going, ‘JESUS! If you’re big then what am I!?’ That’s not right. So I was just saying that. There was a huge Twitter account that made a blog about ‘this is a body shaming song’. I was like, ‘oh my goodness, okaaay…’ I don’t get it. No, I would never shame a skinny person. It makes no sense.
"When you were pitching it to people who actually turned it down?
It was labels, rather than artists turning it down. I know Beyoncé’s people did say they loved it. The best part now is that they’re all emailing me going, ‘I WANTED THAT SONG!’ I’m like, ‘are you kidding?’."
