November 19, 2025 • 15 mins
Meghan Trainor opens up about her new music era and how becoming a mom has shaped her creativity. She says she wants her kids to see her chasing her dreams so they feel empowered to chase theirs too.
"Still Don't Care" by Meghan Trainor is out now!
"Still Don't Care" by Meghan Trainor is out now!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Megan Trainer right here, it's me. I love that. Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Thank you so much for having me. I miss you, guys.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I think you really do. I can tell I get
to tell you. You're giving off. I really I missed you.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
Vibe social all the time you do.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yeah, oh my god, We've got to make those interesting.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I never sound the views. I don't love the views.
But we're gonna. I'm gonna help you. We're gonna do
some different ideas. I got you.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Where do we start. Let's start with Toy with Me. Okay,
the album Toy with Me isn't out till April of
next year.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I know, too far, but that's how long it takes
to print vinyls.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Six months, one at a time.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Like, we'll do it in April, and I'm like, but
it's done now. But yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
If you're doing just digital, you could have it out
tomorrow morning. Yeah huh.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
But I'll just sit on these bangers for now.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
That's a question.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
I mean, we all have our specific reasons why we
appreciate vinyl, but why is making sure a vinyl a
priority a big thing for you nowadays?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Sally Manager the kid liked to buy them and make
it art in their rooms, okay, and I like to
sign a bunch of them, So okay.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Will you ever go and sign some and like hide
them in the stores so people find them signed.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Already now I am. Yeah, okay, you raped the plastic
open a little bit, but they won't mind no if
you sign it. I did like that, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
So the album Toy with Me out April twenty fourth.
We've already been playing Still Don't Care, Thank You So Much,
which we'll play again. So this album took a while
to put together for you.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah, it took longer than I usually I do, Like
they usually take three months, and this one took longer
because I was also doing a bunch of other stuff
at the same time. But I've never worked so hard
on songs. Usually I write a song in a day
and it's done. I wrote these songs in a couple
of days, but the production and finalizing each song took
months and a lot of different producers because I would
(01:55):
just be like, it's not perfect yet, I need to
move it on to someone else, which was difficult. But
now these songs got a higher level than I think
I've ever done before, and I'm very proud of them,
and so I'm trying to spread the word as far
as I can people to listen to it.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Well, I want to talk about that.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I want to talk about you outspreading the word and
we appreciate you spreading it for us.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Hear it? But the song literally talk about uh still
don't care? Yes, you you would work with the producer
and say it's time to move on to someone else whatever,
all with the goal of making a hit. What does
it take in your megan train or opinion, what does
it take to make a hit?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
But I don't know, everyone, I don't know. I don't
know what makes a hit because I had all about
that Baseburt in like nine months and I was Everyone's like,
just wait for your one song, and I was like,
I don't have it, I guess, And then that song
came out of nowhere, thought everyone. But I had that
song for like a whole pregnancy, so a whole nine months.
I wasn't pregnant, but like at the time, so you
never know.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
So let's is that it.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
If someone comes up with their I'm sure to make
a hit, is this, this and this, it's all bs,
It's just I.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Think so I'm like I thought I knew. I thought
for a while, I was like, I have a bunch
of hits, Like I totally got this formula, but I
know how to make like a pop like I studied
Max Martin, So I feel like I tried to make
those pop hits, but I couldn't tell you how to
make like the weekend hit, you know, like one of
those songs. I don't know how to make all genre hits.
I don't know how to make like an awesome Tate
(03:23):
McCrae cool tit for tat hit, you know what I mean,
Like I don't know how to write that, but I
know how to write a Megan Trainer self love anthem, Like.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
You know, I have one more question to go become a.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Short radio makes it a hit? Even TikTok.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
This is where I'm going. I want to talk about this.
That's so funny. We're on the same wavelength, We're on
the same beam. Gotcha.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
You Since the very beginning of your career that we
knew of, you came to see us. You loved coming
out and doing radio interviews.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
And you still do. It's so important.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
You know a lot of a lot of artists would
rather not leave the house and if they can throw
something on a video from their bedroom and here it is,
that's that's as far as they go.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I flew out to see you, my love. The importance
that I'm only going with Elvis is yes, and.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I'm sure the airlines are so appreciative of that. Yeah,
because you brought forty five people with you.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I did.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I did cool.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
These people, my managers that are on the computer, and
my stylists, my husband on my radio team, and there's
more out there. I know.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I love that, But you still do it the way
it's been done for a while. And why why is that?
Why is it important to get out and put the
work in like this.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I don't know. It's harder than ever now, I guess,
to like really get the word out. I still see
like big artists like release, like for the Grammy nominations. Recently,
I saw someone get nominated for their album that I
never even heard of, and it made me sad. I
was like, oh my god, how did I not know
this even existed? Because the Internet is so big now
and everything is so spread out and there's too much
(04:55):
going on that I have been so nervous about this
record that I've never worked harder on. And I'm so
busy with my two kids and i just want to
show them and make them proud, show them what Mama
could do. So I'm like I need to say us
to everything and just get out there as much as
possible to have everyone know, like, Hi, I'm mega trainer
and I have songs coming out, check them out please. Yeah.
(05:17):
But like even when I put this album out, my
manager said it best. He was like, just keep posting,
just keep getting out there, just do the best you can.
Because to this day, people are still like, you're married
to spy kids, Like they still don't know. And I'm
like ten years deep with spy kids, you know what
I mean, children down with by kids. But they're still
(05:39):
like what, like they're just finding it out. So I'm
still like trying to be everywhere at all times.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Do you and Durissil have the toilets right next to
each other in the bathroom?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
We do in the other house. The other house, we're
trying to sell the house. If anyone wants a house
with two toilets, this is on the.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Market, really taking two toilets in the house. We're saying
two toilets right back to back.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Next to each other, side by side.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
We're not side by side because it was always the
poor rule.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
There's no poo in. Yeah no. And my brother's like
chilling in that house right now, and so we sell it.
And him and his fiance soon to be fiance have
been pained together and they're like, we get it, dude.
Like they're like, we judged you and now we understand you.
Like does they really make you closer? Yeah? Really too close?
It's too close. It's too close.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Are the kids at the age.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Where they had figured out, look what mommy can do,
like actually watching and acknowledging it.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I cannot tell because sometimes sometimes I think they know,
like when I play like we're mixing the album, so
we play it a lot in in the living room
and kitchen area where the kids are, and when I
start to play it, my two year old runs in
and goes it's time to dance, and so I know
he's a fan. But then he looked at me the
other day and was like, can you play Meghan Twena?
And I was like, are you asking? Are you asking
(06:50):
me because you think I'm mega trainer? Or do you
ask me because you love Mega trainer. Do you love
Megan Training? And he's like yeah, and I was like, yeah,
she's pretty awesome. And then I think, because I get
so glammed up, like for my music video, still don't care,
I'm like a princess pop star and I'm flying in
the sky. So I play for my kids to hopefully
think they think I'm cool. And I watched it next
to him, but I was all grungy, like at home
(07:11):
and my scrubs and I was like, that's mama, how cool?
And he was like, can we watch TV? Do you
not know that's me? Because I love like this. Wait
till they get old enough and they're like, mom, can
you introduce me to Ariana Grande? Yeah, hopefully someday they'll care.
So be great.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Darryl, you and You're make it. Is it fun being parents? Still?
Is it still a good thing? He's yeah, figured this
thing well, I mean it's fun.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I mean it's the best because I keep going back
to the days where before you even met Darryl, I know, right,
and you know, and look at you now, and look
at you and Darryl now and kids and two toilets
that you're leaving behind. I know, it's it's kind of
funny how life just takes us fun places.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah, we're blinking and it's going by so fast, too fast.
But we need more kids. Are you have a yeah?
I want a doaa?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Well what if you don't get a daughter?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
What if you get another boy? That's all right, I'm
gonna love him just as much. But I thought the
first two were girls, and I was tricked. I love
them so much, they're so boying. Every time I was
pregnant with them, I was like, this is twin girls.
I can feel it. And I was really wrong.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
There's so much So now you've got a lot going
on and you're kind of in a different place with kids,
and what is happening with your career is there's something
on this album that we are going to hear that's
going to sound different than the things that we've heard before.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
And do you have a favorite song from the album? Oh?
That's so tough. This album I really studied. I was
doing a lot of private gigs this year, and I
noticed that in my sets I had a lot of hits,
but they all sounded all over the place, like I
had a lot of duop hits, And then I would
sing not so that ah, so no no no, and
then me too songs like that, and I was like,
I wish they had friends. I wish me too, and
(08:52):
no had friends anymore, just so by themselves because the
rest is like all do ops. So on this album,
I wrote what I call like older, cooler sisters for
those songs. So if you like those songs, there's more
of that on this album. A lot of my songs
are like extra musical. And then I watched a family
member go through an intense breakup, and so I wrote
a lot of angry songs of like getting girl, I'm
(09:14):
gonna take your shopping, I'm gonna take care of you.
This man means nothing, who cares? So we did. I
did a lot of sassy songs on it. And then
I have my one ballad called Little One that's for
my kids that's like, please stay this little forever. Okay,
you're so cute and innocent. Nothing bad has happened to
you yet, you know. And at the end they go,
I love you, mama, and it's so cute.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Do they get like a credit for being on your song?
Are the artists now yeah? Amasically yeah, pumped up?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Yeah, They're like, is this my song. I'm like, this
is your song.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
So of course, with the album coming out in April,
I'm looking at the fact that you are doing over
thirty arenas and amphitheaters across North America, including our own Manass.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Garden in July. Please show up play in the Garden.
I mean, does it ever get old?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
No? I still think my team paid to show up
to the last time. I'm still not convinced. I couldn't
believe it when I went in there, I was like,
no way, this is full right now, and that we
get to do it again is crazy to me. And
the TD Garden too in Boston, right that's like my
biggest dream. I've never played there, like a headlined the
show by myself only with the jingle balls and like,
(10:19):
which is so fun and cool.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
But so the fun keeps coming, the monk keeps coming.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
And I also noticed that some of the proceeds are
going to Trevor Project, which Trevor Project is a major
in my life as well.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Why'd you decide Trevor Project.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I've always tried to collab with them for a long
time now. I just love everything they do and I
want more people to know about them. So wherever I
go on tour, if I can help in any way
spread the word and get more donations, Like, that's a
dream come true. That's great for me and them.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
So you go look at those boxes you're checking off.
You go back to Megan when you were eleven years
old and your first song.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
You can't hear of any of this.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Eleven year old Meghan had no.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
I can't believe by a bangs. I did this in
sixth grade and I immediately regretted it and put a
headband up for the rest of my time in school.
And now she's I love.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Bangs nowang, But just think about the road you have
traveled to get you where you are today with the
family and this career and writing more songs.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yeah, hiring and firing producers. Never an eleven year old.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Data I'm crazy. Everyone does that.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Never in millions when anyone thinking eleven year old would
even think.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
About, Oh yeah, I didn't have all these dreams because
I didn't like believe in myself like that when I
was younger. I always wanted to. I was like, we're
going to need a tour bus because we're going to tour,
and he was just laughing, like okay, but I didn't
even like think of these dreams because they weren't even
like attainable in my brain. I was like, there's no
way I'll get that. So when I started, when I
(11:46):
got all about the base and gun number one, I
was like, what else could I achieve? And then when
I met the love of my life and got married
A yeah, I was like, wow, we need kids. And
then when I did that and survived two sea secsions,
I was like, there's nothing I can't do. And now
I'm just trying to show my kids that, like, you
were really hard and you can have all your dreams
come true.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
And now you said you're in a new era where
dudes are suddenly loving you because you're a part of
these dudes just love.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Me, My dude, yep, because my boyfriend is one of them.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
The Patrick Mahomes commercial that you're yeah, state farmed, we
love State Armed.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
I'm gonna say I'm gonna say what Meghan Trader said
when she walked to this room. I had no idea
who Patrick Mahomes was.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
She said she had the hold of him. I read
the first email and was like, who's that? And my
brother I called my brother because I knew was a
sports thing. I knew he would love it. And he goes,
you don't understand how intense, how big this is. This
is the coolest you've actually ever done your whole career.
And I was like, will you come with me because
I don't know what I'm walking into And I practiced
my lines and then I got there and they were like,
it's funnier when you freestyle, like just make this guy laugh.
(12:45):
And I was like, all right, So I just kind
of spoke my truth a little bit and was like
and you are like, who are you, sir? And I
was like, oh, he does the sports and they kept
all of that and that was like the whole commercial and.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Sports.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yes, yeah, it's great, and then I realized how iconic
it was. I was like, I love it.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
We're going back to, you know, eleven year old Megan Trainer,
not really understanding where the dreams are going or what
the dream should be. Anyone who's driving to work right
now listening to this conversation with Megan, you know, if
you've lost your dream, the dreams continue to come your way.
You just have to know how to spot them and
run for them.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
And I'm go assume.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
I'm assuming that being in a career as you have
done and accomplish, being in for so long, you really
have to reimagine your dreams constantly. It's not you had
a dream at ten and you that's your life dream.
I think it evolves.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I also have like the best management ever. And they
came over one day, like a year ago, a love
you girls, and they came over and they had big
giant pieces of paper and they said, Okay, we're going
to do a manifestation meeting. And I was like what,
And they're like, write down any dream here's like and
there's no. The rule is there's no dream too crazy,
you know, like anything you want. And I was like, oh, well,
(13:59):
so no, and we just I was just saying it
out loud, and they're like, all right, do you want
it in the next year or the next three years?
So the next five years? And I was like, in
the next three years. And we made huge lists and
in that one meeting we've already like knocked off so
many bucket list dreams. And when I tell other artists that,
they're like your managers hang out with you, I know,
oh yeah, they like marry me, like they they're in
(14:20):
the family with their aunties, like their uncles there, and
so I salute them and I think they're the greatest
and that's why my career is here too.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
That's the thing, you know again, you don't have to
believe in myself.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
You don't have to be a mega trainer or in
the industry that we're talking about to be surrounded by
the people who can sit you down and go, let's
do this for each other.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah, you know, because I'm assuming I don't.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Know your I don't know your management team that well,
but I'm assuming that you're there for them as well.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Am I there for you?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Yes? The answers yes, Well, I'm so so tickle to
death again that you came to see us, and I
know this is just the fifth of any interviews that
we're going to do with each other.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I guess.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yes. I have pictures of you and I as redheads together. Yes,
we were.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Neither was original, neither Megan Trainer.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
The album Toy with Me is coming out next year
April twenty fourth, and the tour, with thirty dates plus
maybe more to be added, all announced very soon, including
the garden here in.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Town on July tenth of next year and we love you.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I love you.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Always come back and see us.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I will always, forever and always Megan Trainers still want
to be having
Megan Trainer right here, it's me. I love that. Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Thank you so much for having me. I miss you, guys.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I think you really do. I can tell I get
to tell you. You're giving off. I really I missed you.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
Vibe social all the time you do.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yeah, oh my god, We've got to make those interesting.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I never sound the views. I don't love the views.
But we're gonna. I'm gonna help you. We're gonna do
some different ideas. I got you.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Where do we start. Let's start with Toy with Me. Okay,
the album Toy with Me isn't out till April of
next year.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I know, too far, but that's how long it takes
to print vinyls.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Six months, one at a time.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Like, we'll do it in April, and I'm like, but
it's done now. But yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
If you're doing just digital, you could have it out
tomorrow morning. Yeah huh.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
But I'll just sit on these bangers for now.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
That's a question.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
I mean, we all have our specific reasons why we
appreciate vinyl, but why is making sure a vinyl a
priority a big thing for you nowadays?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Sally Manager the kid liked to buy them and make
it art in their rooms, okay, and I like to
sign a bunch of them, So okay.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Will you ever go and sign some and like hide
them in the stores so people find them signed.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Already now I am. Yeah, okay, you raped the plastic
open a little bit, but they won't mind no if
you sign it. I did like that, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
So the album Toy with Me out April twenty fourth.
We've already been playing Still Don't Care, Thank You So Much,
which we'll play again. So this album took a while
to put together for you.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah, it took longer than I usually I do, Like
they usually take three months, and this one took longer
because I was also doing a bunch of other stuff
at the same time. But I've never worked so hard
on songs. Usually I write a song in a day
and it's done. I wrote these songs in a couple
of days, but the production and finalizing each song took
months and a lot of different producers because I would
(01:55):
just be like, it's not perfect yet, I need to
move it on to someone else, which was difficult. But
now these songs got a higher level than I think
I've ever done before, and I'm very proud of them,
and so I'm trying to spread the word as far
as I can people to listen to it.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Well, I want to talk about that.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I want to talk about you outspreading the word and
we appreciate you spreading it for us.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Hear it? But the song literally talk about uh still
don't care? Yes, you you would work with the producer
and say it's time to move on to someone else whatever,
all with the goal of making a hit. What does
it take in your megan train or opinion, what does
it take to make a hit?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
But I don't know, everyone, I don't know. I don't
know what makes a hit because I had all about
that Baseburt in like nine months and I was Everyone's like,
just wait for your one song, and I was like,
I don't have it, I guess, And then that song
came out of nowhere, thought everyone. But I had that
song for like a whole pregnancy, so a whole nine months.
I wasn't pregnant, but like at the time, so you
never know.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
So let's is that it.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
If someone comes up with their I'm sure to make
a hit, is this, this and this, it's all bs,
It's just I.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Think so I'm like I thought I knew. I thought
for a while, I was like, I have a bunch
of hits, Like I totally got this formula, but I
know how to make like a pop like I studied
Max Martin, So I feel like I tried to make
those pop hits, but I couldn't tell you how to
make like the weekend hit, you know, like one of
those songs. I don't know how to make all genre hits.
I don't know how to make like an awesome Tate
(03:23):
McCrae cool tit for tat hit, you know what I mean,
Like I don't know how to write that, but I
know how to write a Megan Trainer self love anthem, Like.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
You know, I have one more question to go become a.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Short radio makes it a hit? Even TikTok.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
This is where I'm going. I want to talk about this.
That's so funny. We're on the same wavelength, We're on
the same beam. Gotcha.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
You Since the very beginning of your career that we
knew of, you came to see us. You loved coming
out and doing radio interviews.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
And you still do. It's so important.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
You know a lot of a lot of artists would
rather not leave the house and if they can throw
something on a video from their bedroom and here it is,
that's that's as far as they go.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I flew out to see you, my love. The importance
that I'm only going with Elvis is yes, and.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I'm sure the airlines are so appreciative of that. Yeah,
because you brought forty five people with you.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I did.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I did cool.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
These people, my managers that are on the computer, and
my stylists, my husband on my radio team, and there's
more out there. I know.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I love that, But you still do it the way
it's been done for a while. And why why is that?
Why is it important to get out and put the
work in like this.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I don't know. It's harder than ever now, I guess,
to like really get the word out. I still see
like big artists like release, like for the Grammy nominations. Recently,
I saw someone get nominated for their album that I
never even heard of, and it made me sad. I
was like, oh my god, how did I not know
this even existed? Because the Internet is so big now
and everything is so spread out and there's too much
(04:55):
going on that I have been so nervous about this
record that I've never worked harder on. And I'm so
busy with my two kids and i just want to
show them and make them proud, show them what Mama
could do. So I'm like I need to say us
to everything and just get out there as much as
possible to have everyone know, like, Hi, I'm mega trainer
and I have songs coming out, check them out please. Yeah.
(05:17):
But like even when I put this album out, my
manager said it best. He was like, just keep posting,
just keep getting out there, just do the best you can.
Because to this day, people are still like, you're married
to spy kids, Like they still don't know. And I'm
like ten years deep with spy kids, you know what
I mean, children down with by kids. But they're still
(05:39):
like what, like they're just finding it out. So I'm
still like trying to be everywhere at all times.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Do you and Durissil have the toilets right next to
each other in the bathroom?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
We do in the other house. The other house, we're
trying to sell the house. If anyone wants a house
with two toilets, this is on the.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Market, really taking two toilets in the house. We're saying
two toilets right back to back.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Next to each other, side by side.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
We're not side by side because it was always the
poor rule.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
There's no poo in. Yeah no. And my brother's like
chilling in that house right now, and so we sell it.
And him and his fiance soon to be fiance have
been pained together and they're like, we get it, dude.
Like they're like, we judged you and now we understand you.
Like does they really make you closer? Yeah? Really too close?
It's too close. It's too close.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Are the kids at the age.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Where they had figured out, look what mommy can do,
like actually watching and acknowledging it.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I cannot tell because sometimes sometimes I think they know,
like when I play like we're mixing the album, so
we play it a lot in in the living room
and kitchen area where the kids are, and when I
start to play it, my two year old runs in
and goes it's time to dance, and so I know
he's a fan. But then he looked at me the
other day and was like, can you play Meghan Twena?
And I was like, are you asking? Are you asking
(06:50):
me because you think I'm mega trainer? Or do you
ask me because you love Mega trainer. Do you love
Megan Training? And he's like yeah, and I was like, yeah,
she's pretty awesome. And then I think, because I get
so glammed up, like for my music video, still don't care,
I'm like a princess pop star and I'm flying in
the sky. So I play for my kids to hopefully
think they think I'm cool. And I watched it next
to him, but I was all grungy, like at home
(07:11):
and my scrubs and I was like, that's mama, how cool?
And he was like, can we watch TV? Do you
not know that's me? Because I love like this. Wait
till they get old enough and they're like, mom, can
you introduce me to Ariana Grande? Yeah, hopefully someday they'll care.
So be great.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Darryl, you and You're make it. Is it fun being parents? Still?
Is it still a good thing? He's yeah, figured this
thing well, I mean it's fun.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I mean it's the best because I keep going back
to the days where before you even met Darryl, I know, right,
and you know, and look at you now, and look
at you and Darryl now and kids and two toilets
that you're leaving behind. I know, it's it's kind of
funny how life just takes us fun places.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah, we're blinking and it's going by so fast, too fast.
But we need more kids. Are you have a yeah?
I want a doaa?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Well what if you don't get a daughter?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
What if you get another boy? That's all right, I'm
gonna love him just as much. But I thought the
first two were girls, and I was tricked. I love
them so much, they're so boying. Every time I was
pregnant with them, I was like, this is twin girls.
I can feel it. And I was really wrong.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
There's so much So now you've got a lot going
on and you're kind of in a different place with kids,
and what is happening with your career is there's something
on this album that we are going to hear that's
going to sound different than the things that we've heard before.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
And do you have a favorite song from the album? Oh?
That's so tough. This album I really studied. I was
doing a lot of private gigs this year, and I
noticed that in my sets I had a lot of hits,
but they all sounded all over the place, like I
had a lot of duop hits, And then I would
sing not so that ah, so no no no, and
then me too songs like that, and I was like,
I wish they had friends. I wish me too, and
(08:52):
no had friends anymore, just so by themselves because the
rest is like all do ops. So on this album,
I wrote what I call like older, cooler sisters for
those songs. So if you like those songs, there's more
of that on this album. A lot of my songs
are like extra musical. And then I watched a family
member go through an intense breakup, and so I wrote
a lot of angry songs of like getting girl, I'm
(09:14):
gonna take your shopping, I'm gonna take care of you.
This man means nothing, who cares? So we did. I
did a lot of sassy songs on it. And then
I have my one ballad called Little One that's for
my kids that's like, please stay this little forever. Okay,
you're so cute and innocent. Nothing bad has happened to
you yet, you know. And at the end they go,
I love you, mama, and it's so cute.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Do they get like a credit for being on your song?
Are the artists now yeah? Amasically yeah, pumped up?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Yeah, They're like, is this my song. I'm like, this
is your song.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
So of course, with the album coming out in April,
I'm looking at the fact that you are doing over
thirty arenas and amphitheaters across North America, including our own Manass.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Garden in July. Please show up play in the Garden.
I mean, does it ever get old?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
No? I still think my team paid to show up
to the last time. I'm still not convinced. I couldn't
believe it when I went in there, I was like,
no way, this is full right now, and that we
get to do it again is crazy to me. And
the TD Garden too in Boston, right that's like my
biggest dream. I've never played there, like a headlined the
show by myself only with the jingle balls and like,
(10:19):
which is so fun and cool.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
But so the fun keeps coming, the monk keeps coming.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
And I also noticed that some of the proceeds are
going to Trevor Project, which Trevor Project is a major
in my life as well.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Why'd you decide Trevor Project.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I've always tried to collab with them for a long
time now. I just love everything they do and I
want more people to know about them. So wherever I
go on tour, if I can help in any way
spread the word and get more donations, Like, that's a
dream come true. That's great for me and them.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
So you go look at those boxes you're checking off.
You go back to Megan when you were eleven years
old and your first song.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
You can't hear of any of this.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Eleven year old Meghan had no.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
I can't believe by a bangs. I did this in
sixth grade and I immediately regretted it and put a
headband up for the rest of my time in school.
And now she's I love.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Bangs nowang, But just think about the road you have
traveled to get you where you are today with the
family and this career and writing more songs.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yeah, hiring and firing producers. Never an eleven year old.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Data I'm crazy. Everyone does that.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Never in millions when anyone thinking eleven year old would
even think.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
About, Oh yeah, I didn't have all these dreams because
I didn't like believe in myself like that when I
was younger. I always wanted to. I was like, we're
going to need a tour bus because we're going to tour,
and he was just laughing, like okay, but I didn't
even like think of these dreams because they weren't even
like attainable in my brain. I was like, there's no
way I'll get that. So when I started, when I
(11:46):
got all about the base and gun number one, I
was like, what else could I achieve? And then when
I met the love of my life and got married
A yeah, I was like, wow, we need kids. And
then when I did that and survived two sea secsions,
I was like, there's nothing I can't do. And now
I'm just trying to show my kids that, like, you
were really hard and you can have all your dreams
come true.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
And now you said you're in a new era where
dudes are suddenly loving you because you're a part of
these dudes just love.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Me, My dude, yep, because my boyfriend is one of them.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
The Patrick Mahomes commercial that you're yeah, state farmed, we
love State Armed.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
I'm gonna say I'm gonna say what Meghan Trader said
when she walked to this room. I had no idea
who Patrick Mahomes was.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
She said she had the hold of him. I read
the first email and was like, who's that? And my
brother I called my brother because I knew was a
sports thing. I knew he would love it. And he goes,
you don't understand how intense, how big this is. This
is the coolest you've actually ever done your whole career.
And I was like, will you come with me because
I don't know what I'm walking into And I practiced
my lines and then I got there and they were like,
it's funnier when you freestyle, like just make this guy laugh.
(12:45):
And I was like, all right, So I just kind
of spoke my truth a little bit and was like
and you are like, who are you, sir? And I
was like, oh, he does the sports and they kept
all of that and that was like the whole commercial and.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Sports.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yes, yeah, it's great, and then I realized how iconic
it was. I was like, I love it.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
We're going back to, you know, eleven year old Megan Trainer,
not really understanding where the dreams are going or what
the dream should be. Anyone who's driving to work right
now listening to this conversation with Megan, you know, if
you've lost your dream, the dreams continue to come your way.
You just have to know how to spot them and
run for them.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
And I'm go assume.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
I'm assuming that being in a career as you have
done and accomplish, being in for so long, you really
have to reimagine your dreams constantly. It's not you had
a dream at ten and you that's your life dream.
I think it evolves.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I also have like the best management ever. And they
came over one day, like a year ago, a love
you girls, and they came over and they had big
giant pieces of paper and they said, Okay, we're going
to do a manifestation meeting. And I was like what,
And they're like, write down any dream here's like and
there's no. The rule is there's no dream too crazy,
you know, like anything you want. And I was like, oh, well,
(13:59):
so no, and we just I was just saying it
out loud, and they're like, all right, do you want
it in the next year or the next three years?
So the next five years? And I was like, in
the next three years. And we made huge lists and
in that one meeting we've already like knocked off so
many bucket list dreams. And when I tell other artists that,
they're like your managers hang out with you, I know,
oh yeah, they like marry me, like they they're in
(14:20):
the family with their aunties, like their uncles there, and
so I salute them and I think they're the greatest
and that's why my career is here too.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
That's the thing, you know again, you don't have to
believe in myself.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
You don't have to be a mega trainer or in
the industry that we're talking about to be surrounded by
the people who can sit you down and go, let's
do this for each other.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah, you know, because I'm assuming I don't.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Know your I don't know your management team that well,
but I'm assuming that you're there for them as well.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Am I there for you?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Yes? The answers yes, Well, I'm so so tickle to
death again that you came to see us, and I
know this is just the fifth of any interviews that
we're going to do with each other.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I guess.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yes. I have pictures of you and I as redheads together. Yes,
we were.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Neither was original, neither Megan Trainer.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
The album Toy with Me is coming out next year
April twenty fourth, and the tour, with thirty dates plus
maybe more to be added, all announced very soon, including
the garden here in.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Town on July tenth of next year and we love you.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I love you.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Always come back and see us.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I will always, forever and always Megan Trainers still want
to be having
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