Meghan Trainor: ‘A Very Trainor Christmas,’ "Holidays," and Pregnancy | Apple Music

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wow man did you just go ahead and make like one of the most authentic like christmasy holiday sounding funk rick like it's serious like normally music comes around this time of year and it promises to be good but the

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message is great if the music is terrible this is really good really really good oh bless you i love you thank you yeah well i i knew like that earthquake fire was down they were down to um do a duet with me on this album and i was like i have

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to deliver above and beyond to make them like excited about it but also want to do a music video and like commit for the whole the whole way and it's got to be good it's got to be that good you put it through the ewf generator and came out with something that's like modern authentic it's crazy yeah it's like what do i want earthworm fire to do right now today it's like i want them to bring their hits back with like a september feel and then

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we brought it to the boy the guys and they said like they're gonna have their horn players on it and their bass player and like verdeen and the legends and we were like megan it's great to see you happy holidays sincere congratulations very belated i've been meaning to reach out to you and say congratulations so happy for you and the family and everybody else which is amazing oh my god [Music] preggy balm preggy ball

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thank you i keep forgetting to because everyone's like congratulations on the album but they they say just congrats and i'm like oh my baby my life that i'm working on it's been a year where i feel like everybody in their own

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ways had to find a way to hold on and it's been heavy going and you've been through a lot of change you know this year um you know from music right through to again becoming a mum finding that out um there's been a lot going on so at

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this time of the year megan what are you reflecting on the most this year was like super crazy and weird for every single person out there um i just like took this as a an opportunity of like oh my god we have forced time off or forced time to be in one location not traveling not getting sick and going everywhere all around the world and i was like this is a sign that we need to make our child now um i think everyone else got that memo

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too a lot of pregnant people right now yeah it's a new boom so as dark as like this year was um and still is um it's kind of nice to give good news out there like my grandparents are like this is the best thing we've heard all year

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and that's like the one thing i'm hearing about so like it's gonna be tough to tell my kid one year like you were made in the worst year ever but i know but exactly and you know hopefully i feel i still feel optimistic about

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this megan that there will be you know harvest at the end of this that your child and our children and the kids who are being conceived in this boom as you said will hopefully inherit something better yeah i think everyone's learning a lot right now i'm learning so much right now daryl and i have been reading a lot of books and we watched a lot of dr phil trying to study dude he's good with children he knows like what parents should not do

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around their kids he's like this he's like the sperm donor on a philosophical level right it's just there are so many dr phil's had so many kids all over the world just on the philosophy level bars he's got bars he's got these one-liners and i'm like oh my god what are some of the key and fundamental holiday traditions within the trainer family circle i realized we took one we um nowadays we all there's one person that dresses up as

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santa claus usually my older brother and we dress up as elves and we're all very festive and that the job of santa claus in my house is like to hand out the presents on christmas eve from family member to family member and make sure they have a moment to shine um so that's a tough job tough gig daryl my husband wants to take over that job this year oh so okay how's that how's that what are you uh black eyed peas where is the love

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um where were you how old were you when you heard the song why is it on your playlist what's the vibe i don't remember um but i just know it was like the song that everyone had to sing and it was like a beautiful message and it changed everyone's lives forever and it's that it's that thing that i can only pick in a few songs that's oh timeless also i miss my buddy well i am i i was on the uk the voice uk with him and they're all

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they're all back filming and i i can't go because it's just too dangerous for my baby and for myself so i wanted him to see this and be like i miss you hi abba dance and queen all right now we're getting there everyone's drunk now except you everyone else oh my god you're going to be the sober one this christmas you're gonna have to be there like just holding it down oh yeah and i'm gonna be large i'm gonna be like i'm gonna sit

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and y'all just dance around me but this song i always i put it in my set once for i did pride and i was like oh we gotta do dancing queen and the crowd went nuts so nuts that i was like yo we have to put this in every set i ever do

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and we did we started putting in every single show i did after that and it's the song it's like just as big as all about that bass like in my set i'm like and i always stick it near the end when they're getting tired i'm like

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oh you think this is over like and then i start so what are you thinking about doing now like now that you've kicked the door open and you know you've got the range and the ability to cross a lot of ground yeah i know you i know you've got other things on your mind but if you have any creative instinct in you at the minute what's it what's it circling um well next i know i've always my whole life i knew i would write because i play ukulele

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i would write like an adorable lullaby ep or album um for my baby so i know i want to pop out one of those real quick i think that'll be easy project and fun all right beyonce crazy and love featuring jay-z we've gone deep down to beyonce hall before um we know where she stands in your overall frame of things she's sort of in the middle front and center out front of everything else queen b queen b so crazy and love takes us to a

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point now where we finish this playlist with my kind of present um from a very trainer christmas and uh i guess we just say goodbye and say thank you for your time thank you for taking the time to do to do your radio show with us this year

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which is fantastic and man you are such a good you're such a good human and such a great artist and i wish you all the best during this holiday season i know it'll be a time to reflect for a lot of different reasons

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but um know that we love you here and we appreciate everything about you you're crazy man thank you so much for making my whole week and my whole year and yeah you're the best part of this year for me besides the baby oh dude getting to know you has been a real joy i'm i'm so glad that we're that we're in each other's lives i'm able to connect so let's stay in touch and it's great to see you megan see you later daryl take care guys you