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Does anybody else find Meghan Trainor horribly annoying?

KeithE4 said:
None of Carole King's songs were never turned into a diaper commercial,
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Nothing wrong with having your song turned into a commercial. It's the ultimate payday, and King had quite a few songs used that way. Ask Carly Simon about having her song used for a ketchup commercial. She loved it! Songwriting is a business.

I interviewed Carole King and she gave the credit for her lyrics to her former husband and co-writer Gerry Goffin. He was the lyricist for her 60s hits, including You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman (used in a commercial). By the time Carole was writing solo, she had ten years with Gerry.

CTListener said:
Nope, just radio geek guys, all out of the demo.
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OK, here's a message to all the radio geeks: If you program a radio station to what you like, you'll have an audience of one...yourself.

I learned when I was a teenager how to program to a mass audience. You do it by watching what songs they respond to. Millions of people respond to Trainor's songs. So I play them, even though she's not talking to me. I don't care. I'm not in radio for myself. I also don't care of the songs are simple or if she can't sing. If the audience doesn't care, I don't care.
 
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"Dear Future Husband" didn't do that well and I think it's because it sounds too much like a 60s song and would turn off Gen-X and part of Gen-Y but I thought the next group down might go for it and maybe they did. Does anyone know?
 
TheBigA said:
Exactly, especially to women. Compare them to Shania's Any Man Of Mine. Very similar. Taylor Swift has several songs on the topic. Listen to Beyoncé.
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In my defense, I've never really liked Shania's "Any Man of Mine" either (and for many of the same reasons), though I've played it on the radio plenty of times. I'm not likely to be in the target demo of that song either, though country is usually more gender balanced than Hot AC.
 
tall_guy1 said:
Her "baby" voice, her irritating lyrics aimed at teens, and her "look at me" attitude make me switch the station when she comes on and even reset presets so I don't have to hear her. Anyone else agree?:mad:
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Less annoying than this topic. With everything going on in the world and broadcasting in particular, you're bugged about some pop artist? I guess everyone needs a hobby!
 
brettbutlerisok said:
And just why would she want to that.

btw, she is only of the few current pop stars I do like.
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Because she won't be 22 forever, and her audience will age out of that kind of music.

Fortunately, from what I've read about her, she's doing exactly that. After all, if The Beatles hadn't evolved from those simplistic songs they wrote and recorded in 1963-64 (I Wanna Hold Your Hand being the ultimate example), they, together and individually, never would have become what they were -- the greatest band of all time. It has to happen if one wants a long career.
 
KeithE4 said:
Because she won't be 22 forever, and her audience will age out of that kind of music.

Fortunately, from what I've read about her, she's doing exactly that. After all, if The Beatles hadn't evolved from those simplistic songs they wrote and recorded in 1963-64 (I Wanna Hold Your Hand being the ultimate example), they, together and individually, never would have become what they were -- the greatest band of all time. It has to happen if one wants a long career.
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No, she's not. Her two new songs are just as childish and annoying as her early stuff.
 
KeithE4 said:
Because she won't be 22 forever, and her audience will age out of that kind of music.

Fortunately, from what I've read about her, she's doing exactly that. After all, if The Beatles hadn't evolved from those simplistic songs they wrote and recorded in 1963-64 (I Wanna Hold Your Hand being the ultimate example), they, together and individually, never would have become what they were -- the greatest band of all time. It has to happen if one wants a long career.
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You're hearing one thing but her fans are hearing another and since they're the ones who will still be around, it's their opinion that's important. Another possibility is that maybe, she doesn't want a long career. Maybe, she just wants to make her mark and get out. I can think of several 60s artists who did just that.
 
I like her. The lyrics and melodies are catchy and fun. It's good to have some songs with a sense of humor to them. I'd say she is this generation's Cindy Lauper.
 
Mike Sheridan said:
I like her. The lyrics and melodies are catchy and fun. It's good to have some songs with a sense of humor to them. I'd say she is this generation's Cindy Lauper.
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I feel the same way about several female artists of this millennium. You couldn't escape Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" in 2012, and that was fine with me. It was a fun, catchy song. I like a lot of Katy Perry's songs, too, and Natasha Bedingfield's (Where did she disappear to?) and Colbie Caillat's from earlier years.Guilty pleasures, all.
 
Based on "All About That Bass", yes.

I don't mind Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun". The video was fun. Everything else she does is annoying.

"Call Me Maybe" is bad enough, but I once heard it in stereo in my car. For a few seconds. That is a whole new level of annoying.

There was something by Natasha Bedingfield I liked. Colbie Caillat's "Bubbly" is on America's Best Music and was even on the local affiliate's morning show. I really don't understand why. It's too cutesy.
 
Kent said:
In my defense, I've never really liked Shania's "Any Man of Mine" either (and for many of the same reasons), though I've played it on the radio plenty of times. I'm not likely to be in the target demo of that song either, though country is usually more gender balanced than Hot AC.
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I like parts of that song, but the clapping part is annoying. Maybe because for years I thought that was done with technology. It may actually be some kind of drum machine.

Now "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" is annoying. "Honey I'm Home" is a very strange song, going all the way from real country on the chorus to the worst dreck possible in the verses.
 
I like "All About the Bass". I'm not familiar with the rest of Trainor's music.

ixnay
(who grew up a few miles from Trainer [with an e], PA, where Sinclair once had a refinery that has changed hands several times since)
 
If I were still a Top 40 DJ (I left radio in 1992) I would look forward to playing Meghan's songs twice on my shift. Especially her new one, "Wanna be Like Me".
 
staggmovie said:
I have never really heard of her or her show so I have no strong or opinion at all
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Nice post dude!

Yeah, really if she can grow up with her listeners more power to her, and if she can't and or doesn't I won't take anything away from her. She has written, and preformed a song that will never stop getting airplay.
 
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