Meghan Trainor, Made You Look | Music Lifts 🎶 🏋

In the 45th edition of Music Lifts (2024), we’re uplifted by Grammy-winning pop artist Meghan Trainor performing, “Made You Look.”

Welcome to Music Lifts 🎶 🏋, a column highlighting songs that encourage, inspire, and uplift the spirit; songs exuding fortitude, positivity, and resolve, even in the face of adversity.  Featured songs aren’t genre-specific; songs may or may not be faith-based. The goal is for these songs to make you feel better – be LIFTED to new heights!  So, for the 45^th edition of Music Lifts 🎶 🏋 (2024), we highlight “Made You Look” as performed by Meghan Trainor.

“I could have my Gucci on / I could wear my Louis Vuitton / But even without nothin’ on / Bet I made you look (I made you look).” Woo! “Made You Look” is the second track from Takin’ It Back, the fifth studio album by Grammy-winning pop singer/songwriter Meghan Trainor. “Made You Look” continues to embrace the retro-pop stylings that Trainor has been known for. Trainor, Sean Douglas, and producer Federico Vindver penned it. The production is crisp and clean. The dynamic instrumental sounds include biting, articulated horns, warm strings, and a rhythm section. Another hit for Trainor, “Made You Look” just missed the top 10 on the pop charts, peaking at no. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100.

“Made You Look” benefits from rhythmic and tuneful melodies. Trainor infuses ample personality into her vocals.  She sings beautifully.  Her tone is distinct, and her ad-libs are non troppo and refined. Besides fabulous lead vocals, the vocal harmonies are super sweet.  Still, the big takeaway is empowerment – body positivity, confidence, and self-love.  “‘Cause I’m ‘bout to make a scene, double up that sunscreen,” she sings in the first verse, continuing, “I’m ‘bout to turn the heat up, gonna make your glasses steam / Ooh, tell me what you, what you, what you  gon’ do, ooh.” One of the lyrical gems occurs in the second verse, where Trainor asserts, “This ain’t that ordinary, this that 14 karat cake.” Noted! While some have accused Trainor of being narcissistic in the past (“Me Too” comes to mind), that doesn’t seem to be her intent.  This one is for the ladies to feel good about themselves.  “Made You Look”, hence, is a body-positive, uplifting pop bop. I bet it made you listen!

Meghan Trainor // Takin’ It Back // Epic // 2022

Meghan Trainor, Made You Look: Music Lifts 🎶 🏋 No. 45 (2024) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Epic; Monstera Production, Qamar Rehman, RDNE Stock Project, Thomas Ronveaux, Wolrider YURTSEVEN from Pexels; OpenClipart-Vectors, Quốc Hùng Hầu from Pixabay]