Meghan Trainor Explains to Howard Stern Why She Took Down the ‘Me Too’ Music Video
Trainor says she was not happy with the digital manipulation of her body in the video.
Meghan Trainor made her debut appearance on “The Howard Stern Show” on Tuesday to promote her new album, “Thank You.” The singer, songwriter, and producer recently made headlines for having a video for her single, “Me Too,” removed from YouTube because she was not happy with the digital manipulation of her body, and she explained further why the situation had her in a frenzy.
“Me Too” is the second single from Trainor’s album, which will be released on May 13, and the music video was released on May 9. Trainor said she did ask the music video producers to make some small edits here and there, but she never requested that her waist look smaller.
“I asked them like, ‘Hey, can you hide my mustache and take off my mole hair?’ Like the peach-fuzz, up close and personal, those close-ups, you never know,” she explained. “So I just asked them to do that, but I never said, ‘Cut off my rib.’ So I saw screenshots that the fans were taking on Instagram, and I was like, ‘Why are the fans messing with my waist?’ But then I was like, ‘Oh my God, that’s not the fans, that’s my video, and I must’ve not even seen it.”
Trainor has been known to pen songs that include themes discussing body image, so this didn’t sit well with her, and she immediately moved to have the video taken down.
“I called every head of label,” she said. “L.A. Reid, Sylvia Rhone, I called all of them up and said, ‘Take this video down. I don’t care what it takes, take it down.'”
She continued, “I’m the poster child for no Photoshop. That is my thing! I was skinnier than those dancers, who were also very skinny. So when you do that, everybody knows that’s not real.”
Trainor said she has never been obsessed with her weight, and her label heads haven’t ever pressured her to look a certain way.
“I work out nowadays just to stay healthy, that’s the only thing keeping me alive so far. But I haven’t fluctuated since high school … I’ve had no complaints to stop eating, I’ve even gotten [compliments] like, ‘Wow, you look slim.'”
