Meghan Trainor & T-Pain, Been Like This | Song Review 🎵

Meghan Trainor enlists fellow Grammy winner, T-Pain, for the silly but irresistible and infectious, “Been Like This,” the lead single from her sixth LP, Timeless. 

“Ooh-wee, she got that booty / That type of boom-boom, that bass that I like.” Meghan Trainor is… one of a kind.  Once more, the Grammy-winning, pop artist hearkens back to the past with her retro-pop song, “Been Like This”. “Been Like This” serves as the lead single for her sixth studio album, Timeless (arrives June 14, 2024). It should be noted that the “All About That Bass” singer brings along a fellow Grammy-winner, T-Pain, along for this tongue in cheek, retro-pop ride.  Trainor penned “Been Like This” while it is produced by Gian Stone and Grant Boutin. The slick production work makes the jazzy vibes come alive in the 2020s.

Even as “Been Like This” embraces the pop of the past, it’s chocked-full of gimmickry and modern pop trickery. If you’ve heard many a Meghan Trainor songs, you’ll catch the drift the second that “Been Like This” begins to play.  Following Meghan’s verse with plenty of tongue in cheekiness, T-Pain appears in the second verse. He delivers exuberant vocals, intact with his beloved autotune.  An example of what T-Pain serves: “Baby, I would do the (Ooh), shake a little (Ooh) / Make it jiggle (Ooh) with a thang in the middle / For makin’ it bizzle (Ooh) / Jiggle when it’s just the way I like.” Word. The chorus is tuneful, easily getting stuck in your head for better or worse:

“But I been like this, I been like this

Run your mouth, but I’m on your lips

Ain’t nothin’ new, still that bitch.”

Make of “Been Like This” what you will.  If you find Meghan The Trainor annoying, this song won’t change your mind.  If you find her songs irresistibly catchy, then you’ll think the same of this song too. I have mixed feelings regarding her but “Been Like This,” as silly as it is, is also catchy as albeit.

Meghan Trainor // Timeless // Epic // 6.14.24

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