"I am your mother, you listen to me!" Meghan Trainor's latest track opens, and instead of blossoming into the vaguely queer anthem it sets out to be, it's giving iPad baby with behavioural issues watching Cocomelon at full volume inside Jack Astor's.
After getting torn to shreds on the internet for the snippet of "Mother" she shared in hopes of TikTok virality, Trainor's threats to release the song in full have come to fruition, with both the track and the music video dropping today.
Set to an interpolation of Pat Ballard's "Mr. Sandman," she uses the 1954's main vocal melody to both call a hypothetical mansplainer a "bum," while urging us to shake our own "bums."
While taking down entitled men would be a noble topic for a song on its own, the message of "Mother" is weighed down by its cheap use of AAVE slang adopted by the LGBTQ community — if anybody is "mother," it's definitely not a rich straight woman.
Sure, "Mother" is catchy, but in the same way that an overproduced, cheap-to-acquire pop song rattling in your skull while you get overstimulated at the grocery store is. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all the retail workers who are inevitably going to hear this track in their nightmares.
And who else would be fit to star in the "Mother" music video but the world's most rancid momager? Was Kris Jenner shimmying her hips and pantomiming the song's abysmal lyrics worth the millions of dollars it likely cost to book her for the shoot? We think not. Watch the atrocity below.
After getting torn to shreds on the internet for the snippet of "Mother" she shared in hopes of TikTok virality, Trainor's threats to release the song in full have come to fruition, with both the track and the music video dropping today.
Set to an interpolation of Pat Ballard's "Mr. Sandman," she uses the 1954's main vocal melody to both call a hypothetical mansplainer a "bum," while urging us to shake our own "bums."
While taking down entitled men would be a noble topic for a song on its own, the message of "Mother" is weighed down by its cheap use of AAVE slang adopted by the LGBTQ community — if anybody is "mother," it's definitely not a rich straight woman.
Sure, "Mother" is catchy, but in the same way that an overproduced, cheap-to-acquire pop song rattling in your skull while you get overstimulated at the grocery store is. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all the retail workers who are inevitably going to hear this track in their nightmares.
And who else would be fit to star in the "Mother" music video but the world's most rancid momager? Was Kris Jenner shimmying her hips and pantomiming the song's abysmal lyrics worth the millions of dollars it likely cost to book her for the shoot? We think not. Watch the atrocity below.
