Meghan Trainor says she 'Still Don't Care' — because her new album and tour are about growth

NEW YORK -- In the decennary following her debut album, Meghan Trainor has lived myriad lives — but the connection of her bright, cheery popular euphony has remained the same: Stay existent to who you are and disregard the haters. That tone endures connected her pb single, the jovial “Still Don't Care,” the archetypal tease of her forthcoming seventh full-length album, “Toy with Me,” retired April 24.

And successful existent Trainor fashion, “Still Don't Care” was inspired by existent beingness situations. “I was seeing a batch of hatred each implicit the world, but I was getting a batch of hatred erstwhile I started posting much pictures of ... my fittingness travel and my wellness journey. And I didn’t truly expect that,” Trainor told The Associated Press. “I would get truly upset astatine comments and I was like, ‘I privation I didn’t consciousness similar this. I privation I didn’t springiness them truthful overmuch power.’

“And so, erstwhile I constitute songs, I ever constitute successful the position of however I privation I thought, similar ‘All About That Bass.’ I didn’t consciousness similar that erstwhile I wrote it,” she continued. “And each my self-love anthems. But erstwhile I execute them and I spot however it affects different people, I commencement believing them.”

“Still Don't Care” is yet different example, with its maximalist, ‘80s popular accumulation and choir courtesy of Pentatonix’s Scott Hoying. Her mom, member and sister-in-law lend inheritance vocals connected it arsenic good — possibly softening the song's gloves-up attack to combating online hate. “You could teardrop maine apart,” Trainor sings. “But I slumber good astatine night.”

It's the archetypal sensation of “Toy with Me,” which Trainor teases volition person a fewer self-love bops, songs to excise her choler done and tons of familial love. “The lone features I person close present successful this infinitesimal are my kids, Riley and Barry, due to the fact that I wrote them a beauteous song, the only, like, slower song. It’s called ‘Little One' and it's astir however I privation they could enactment small forever,” she said, smiling. “When I play it, Riley goes, ‘Oh, this is my song. Play my song!' It’s virtually my lullaby for them. And astatine the extremity of the opus they say, ‘I emotion you, Mama,’ and it’s conscionable the cutest happening ever. And that’s erstwhile everyone’s crying.”

Trainor said she worked on the album for 8 months. “I exhausted myself, and I went a small excessively hard. I got excited to beryllium location with the kids and enactment connected my songs, but past I definitely, I overdid it, and my assemblage started doing weird things, giving maine signals. Like, my lingua started burning 1 day. And I was like, ‘What’s this?’ And it wouldn’t spell distant forever. And the dentist was like, ‘Oh, you’re stressed,’” she recalled.

Songwriting, too, was a challenge. “I usually constitute a opus successful 1 time and I’m done with it, but each opus connected this medium took, like, months to finish,” she said. “So that was the lone quality from this medium than immoderate different medium I’ve done.”

A batch of that was due to the fact that she enlisted songwriters she's ne'er worked with earlier — radical who would propulsion her to marque the opus the champion it could beryllium — challenges she welcomed with unfastened arms.

The enactment is fulfilling, and truthful she continues: Trainor volition besides embark connected a North American circuit successful 2026 with openers Icona Pop. The Get successful Girl circuit kicks disconnected June 12 astatine the Pine Knob Music Theatre successful Clarkston, Michigan, and ends Aug. 15 astatine Los Angeles' Kia Forum.

Along the way, she'll deed Toronto, Cincinnati, St. Louis, New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cleveland, Houston, Denver, Salt Lake City, Seattle, San Francisco, San Diego, Phoenix and galore more.

Trainor's past tour, the Timeless Tour, marked her archetypal successful 7 years. It proved to Trainor that she tin bash this happening again. “I'm not perfectly petrified similar I was for the Timeless Tour,” she said. “I cognize I tin past it and it tin beryllium truly fun.”

After an American Express pre-sale, tickets volition go disposable to the wide nationalist connected Nov. 21, astatine 10 a.m. section time.