It's been a decade, so you may have forgotten, but when Meghan Trainor released her 100% certified bop debut single “All About That Bass” in 2014, it was a huge hit. The doo-wop-adjacent song not only hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, but stayed there for eight straight weeks.
Trainor celebrated the 10th anniversary of her breakout on Monday (April 29) by going to see Kelly Clarkson on her daytime talk show, where, not for nothing, the host noted that the song was the “best-selling song of a female artist of the previous decade. This is crazy! I feel like you need an Olympic medal for that!”
What better way to celebrate the former than by teaming up with Clarkson for a duet, during which the two singers smiled and belted out lyrics about having all the right trash in all the right places?
“I see the magazines workin' that Photoshop/ We know it ain't real/ Come on, make it stop/ If you've got beauty, just pick it up/ “Cause every inch of you is perfect/ From the bottom to the top,” sang Trainor as Clarkson added spot-on ad-libs and the two women fell into perfect harmony on the body-positive pre-chorus.
“Yeah, my mama, she told me don't worry about your size/ She says, boys like a little more booty to hold at night/ And no, I won't be a stick, a silicone Barbie doll/ Well, if that's what you're all about/ Then move on and move on,” they harmonized before Clarkson took center stage on the next verse and assured her studio audience that “every inch of you is perfect from the bottom up.”
Trainor also stayed to chat, with the singer gushing about how in the years since the song has become an anthem for so many fans that she now considers it her “superpower.” She also talked about her first tour in seven years and the logistics of traveling with her two young children, with Clarkson warning that touring with kids (and dogs) will be a challenge. “Can I give you a tip?” said Clarkson about the guilt she noted many female musicians have who are on the road with families.
“You feel like you have to wake up with them… don't do that!” advised mother-of-two Clarkson. “Because your voice will hate you.”
Trainor recently announced that her sixth studio album, Eternalis set for release on June 14 via Epic Records and has released the T-Pain-featuring single “Been Like This” as well as announcing dates for her Timeless tour, which was set to kick off in Cincinnati in September.
Watch Trainor and Clarkson sing “All About That Bass” below.
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