It's funny 'cause I go shopping now and when I go shopping, no makeup, scrub hard, and
that's usually how I don't get recognized.
But I always get, even when I had my ID that says Meghan Trainor, they're like
"Wow, you look like Meghan Trainor."
I'm like, "Yeah but she's way prettier than I am."
I didn't walk in that day being like, "I have the song title, it's ‘No Excuses.’"
I was asking everyone.
Everyone in my family.
Everyone on my team, “How can I write about respect?"
Like a modern day version of R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
How could I bring that back and not sound cheesy and angry and mean?
I had a personal experience with this. Had some mansplaining to me, and I had some disrespect.
This song was very much my big anthem, but I also think it was perfect for the time right
now, for the #MeToo movement, for Time's Up.
It just is so perfect, and I really believe it's what the world needs right now.
I wanted a little edge, a little sassiness, and a clever line of, “What?"
Are you kidding me?
What has influenced you this much that you're coming at me like this?
You're out your mind.
I was worried about Radio Disney playing it ‘cause of that, but it could be them drinking
soda, and getting too hyped up on sugar.
But they played it.
They loved it, so...
I love making noises on the mic.
This reminded me of my dad.
My dad, when he would boogie to old school funk he'd be like, "Huh!"
We wanted an easy way of saying that, you know that visual of, “Are you talking to me?"
How dare you talk to me like that?
You must be talking to someone else.
You wanna say, "It's 2018, guys."
"We have all the amazing Instagram quotes online. Be nicer to each other."
And it's just sad that it's always gonna be a struggle.
And it's always gonna be a problem.
My song "All About That Bass," and a lot of other songs, helped these young girls flip
their entire way of looking at themselves.
If I could do that with that song, I thought this song maybe I could get a few more ears
listening and trying to remind themselves of just a simple word of respect.
Pop music, it's my little trick to help the fans learn lyrics faster.
Just give them what they already know, and when they hear that second verse they're like
"I already learned this part, I know it."
But it was also the important message I had, of like, “No, did you hear me?"
"What you sippin' on that got you doing this crazy stuff?”
I think what hurts me the most is when someone
disrespects me in front of other people, or in front of my family.
And it's almost like an embarrassing moment.
That's what really gets me going.
I told Daryl week one, “If you ever wanna fig"ht with me or have an argument, never do
"it in front of anyone.
"Don't ever do it in front of my family.”
He did it one time in front of my older brother, and we still talk about it to this day.
I'm like, "That was the most uncool thing you've ever done."
He's like, "I know, I shouldn't have done that. I'm a terrible person."