Meghan Trainor hoping to connect with country songwriters at Billboard event
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Meghan Trainor reveals she'd like to have another baby in 2025
Meghan Trainor tells USA TODAY's Ralphie Aversa at iHeartRadio's Jingle Ball that she'd like to expand her family and write music in 2025.
The singer is being honored with the "Hitmaker Award" at the upcoming Billboard Women in Music Awards.
Trainor expressed her desire to collaborate with country artists like Megan Moroney and Mickey Guyton.
She is also promoting a partnership with Arm & Hammer while supporting her best friend Chris Olsen on tour.
Meghan Trainor is all about that bass, that family and those detergent sheets.
The mom of two is breathing a sigh of relief following her Timeless Tour that stretched across the U.S. last fall, visiting cities from Mansfield, Massachusetts, to Inglewood, California.
"It's like you've accomplished the hardest physical and emotional thing in two months," she says over Zoom. Her smile beams through the camera. " I can't imagine how people do it for years. I salute them. I think they're heroes."
Her husband, Daryl Sabara, and kids, Barry and Riley, joined her on the road. Trainor's one rule is she doesn't spend more than a week away from the loves of her life.
"Riley won't stop talking about the tour," she says. "Every day was an adventure. Every day we got in a new car and on a new bus to go to a museum or aquarium."
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Trainor is gearing up for her next event, hoping to rub elbows with fellow stars at the Billboard Women in Music Awards. She's being honored with the "Hitmaker Award."
"I'm trying to get back into writing with other artists," Trainor says, adding she would welcome the opportunity to work alongside Megan Moroney, Mickey Guyton or Tanner Adell. "I would love to write with these country artists. They're incredible. They're so cute. I've just been a fan. I can't wait to meet them and meet them in person and give them a big hug and say, 'We should write.'"
The YouTube Theater broadcast will air March 29 at 7 p.m. PT on VIZIO WatchFree+. This year's program will include: Becky G, Doechii, Glorilla, Gracie Abrams, Megan Moroney, Meghan Trainor, Muni Long, Mickey Guyton, Suki Waterhouse, Tanner Adell, Tyla and Zara Larsson. Laverne Cox is hosting.
In the meantime, Trainor is following her best friend Chris Olsen on tour with her brother Ryan Trainor and promoting her partnership with Arm & Hammer. She creatively ties together both.
"They're selling out venues, which is insane and I'm just so proud of them," she says. "It's funny watching them go through all the tour stuff, like doing laundry. That is the hardest part of tour, I think, and I wish I had Arm & Hammer Power Sheets when I was touring, you know what I'm saying?"
Olsen's tour is a 90-minute variety show that includes musical theater, stand-up comedy and covers of popular songs (Trainor recorded back-up vocals).
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