Meghan Trainor followers react after lyrics modifications to ‘All About That Bass’
Meghan Trainor has obtained followers speaking after swapping lyrics in ‘All About That Bass’ to focus on modifications to her bodily look.
The second occurred on the singer’s headline efficiency at iHeartRadio’s KIIS-FM Wango Tango occasion final weekend, the place she broke out a barely completely different model of her 2014 hit.
Within the first verse of the monitor, she swapped out the unique line “Yeah, it’s fairly clear, I ain’t no measurement two”, to “Yeah, it’s fairly clear, I obtained some new boobs.” It got here as a nod to her present process a breast augmentation and carry earlier this 12 months.
The transfer to vary the lyrics, nevertheless, left some followers within the remark part divided – notably as the unique lyrics had been meant to advertise physique positivity.
“I really feel like she shouldn’t be allowed to sing this track anymore […] her physique doesn’t characterize the track anymore,” one individual on TikTok wrote, whereas one other added: “Massive is gorgeous till you’re wealthy sufficient to vary it — story of the leisure business”.
Others within the remark part on TikTok shared that they thought the change to the track was ironic, whereas another person mentioned: “I really feel she simply morally shouldn’t carry out this track anymore.”
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Nonetheless, some had been much less vital of the singer – who has beforehand been open about her use of the diabetes drug Mounjaro to drop some pounds (through The Independent) – saying that the message of positivity nonetheless stays.
“It’s all about ‘physique positivity’ till a girl makes modifications that assist her really feel good in her physique after having two youngsters,” one person wrote, whereas another person shared: “Hating her for being huge. Now hating her for being skinny! This simply proves you possibly can by no means match society’s prosomas!”
“The quantity of individuals which are hating on her for dropping pounds is loopy,” one other added. “11 years in the past she made a track. She now has two youngsters and needs to be wholesome for them. Cease, simply cease.”
A fourth fan got here to the singer’s defence and mentioned: “She made the track so that you wouldn’t be ashamed of your weight. If she seems like she would really feel more healthy if she misplaced it, then that’s what she’ll do, doesn’t imply she feels ashamed of her weight, simply means she needs to be wholesome.
“The songs are made so that you simply gained’t really feel ashamed or insecure about your weight.”
This isn’t the primary time that Trainor’s look has been the topic of debate on social media. Final month, the ‘Been Like This’ singer shared an Instagram put up hitting out on the feedback about her look when receiving the Hitmaker Award on the Billboard Ladies in Music ceremony.
“It’s slightly disheartening that so most of the questions (and feedback) had been targeted on my physique as an alternative of my music, my ardour, or the last decade of exhausting work that obtained me right here,” she wrote.
“That is what it’s prefer to be a girl within the music business,” she continued. “No, I don’t appear like I did 10 years in the past. I’ve been on a journey to be the healthiest, strongest model of myself for my youngsters and for me.”
Earlier than then, she shared a cautionary story to listeners interested by beauty surgical procedure on her Workin’ On It podcast, revealing that she “can not smile anymore” after having Botox.