Trainor penned her first piece at age 11 to toast her uncle at his wedding. Recognizing her talent, her dad bought her a MacBook and pointed out the GarageBand feature. She was using it to produce songs by age 13.
She wanted to be a pop star, and naively figured that the first step was writing your own stuff. “I thought Britney (Spears) wrote every word to every song,” she said with a laugh. “I was like, ‘What's a Max Martin?’ ”
He signed her to Epic and released the “Bass” single at just the right time. All summer, big-butt songs dominated the airwaves, including Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda” and Jennifer Lopez and Iggy Azalea’s “Booty.” But those songs present ample behinds as a sexual fetish for others to enjoy, while Trainor’s piece extols the larger figure as a self-image booster.
“Nicki Minaj is great,” Trainor says. “But I don’t know what her song is about. I know her anaconda don't, or his don’t. But I don't get it.”
Inspiration eventually struck for the song that would change her self-image, and her life, when told writing partner Kevin Kadish that she no longer wanted to write songs for others to sing.
“I said, ‘Man, I’m sick of pretending to be Rihanna. Let’s write for no one star. Let's write for the world. What does the world need right now?' And 'All About That Bass' came out in 40 minutes.”
The article is ignorant anyway, can they not read between the lines? Anaconda is about women regaining control of their sexuality.
I guess sir if you say so
I personally don't see it since the man is judging a woman's body and is the one deciding if he will sleep with her or not based on the size of her ass (going by the song's lyrics).
Remember the first quote, Barbz!
