

I get there, and I’m a quick writer, so if I was out there until midnight there was a problem. “I made it clear we need to end it by midnight. We went into the studio that day and wrote a song that we all loved.” Was there a lot of burning the midnight oil recording this album? Finally, they said, ‘You’re always saying you don’t want to be trapped as a doo-wop artist, why don’t you show what you’ve got?’ I thought, ‘What’s that genre that I miss so much on the radio?’ Nsync, Britney Spears, young Max Martin and Destiny’s Child. “By the end, I had written three albums and my label kept saying that it wasn’t punch-in-the-face, that I was doing what’s expected. When I told my parents I was doing “All About That Bass” and writing doo-wop, they were like, ‘Huh, that’s new.’ That’s all the world knew of me, so I wanted to show them there’s much more to Meghan Trainor.” How’d you do that? “As a songwriter before, my catalogue contained a lot of pop songs or songs like “ Sledgehammer” for Fifth Harmony. We sat down with Trainor when she was in Toronto to learn more about her latest album, the relationship with her best guy friend-it’s complicated-and why she’s sticking with red hair for now. What decade would she most like to live in? “Right now… we have iPhones!” But don’t be mistaken, both feet remain firmly placed in the present. The tracks on Thank You, out May 13, still pack major earworm punch, only this time in the vein of the music Trainor listened to as a kid-Calypso and 90s rap from Snoop Dogg and Eminem. If the first single from her sophomore album Thank You “ No” is any indication, those looking for an “ All About That Bass” sound should head back to 2014. She also performed it during The Untouchable Tour (2016).Meghan Trainor is not one to be typecast. Trainor has performed "No" on several shows, including the 3rd iHeartRadio Music Awards, The Graham Norton Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and the 2016 Billboard Music Awards. The clip drew comparisons to the works of Spears and Madonna for its sexual nature. It was set at a warehouse, noted to be visually darker than Trainor's previous clips and featured her dancing alongside an all-female dance troupe. Fatima Robinson directed the music video for "No".

It also reached the top ten in several European countries (Austria, Spain, Scotland), as well as in Australia and Canada. "No" was a commercial success, becoming Trainor's second single to reach the top three on the US Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number three. Its composition was compared by several critics to various pop artists of the late 1990s and early 2000s, such as Britney Spears and NSYNC. Backed by an instrumental of ripping guitars, the dance-pop and R&B song draws some influences from doo-wop, with lyrics about men who cannot take the hint when their advances towards women are rejected. The track was released on March 4, 2016, as the lead single from the album. It was written by Trainor, Eric Frederic, and Jacob Kasher Hindlin, and produced by Ricky Reed. "No" (stylized in all caps) is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor for her second major-label studio album Thank You (2016).
