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The holidays are right around the corner, and pop singer Meghan Trainor is celebrating with some timely new music. Trainor is no stranger to the holiday music sphere; in 2020, she released A Very Trainor Christmas, an album packed with a mix of Christmas classics and original songs. This holiday season, the Grammy winner is back with more songs for the season, this time in the form of the one-off single “Gifts For Me.”
Though Trainor has been married to actor Daryl Sabara since 2018, this holiday season, she’s singing about going shopping for herself. “My sweet husband wasn’t the best at buying gifts for me last year, and I was like, ‘Screw it. This year, I’m gonna get me a gift,’” she told Fashion of the new track. The song harkens back to the classic doo-wop sound that accompanied her debut more than a decade ago on hits like “All About That Bass” and “Lips Are Movin’” and her 2023 holiday single “Wrap Me Up.”
“What do you get for the girl who’s got everything? / That’s what they say every year, but I don’t need nothing, babe / No, baby, baby, you got me all wrong / So I guess I’m playin’ Santa Claus,” she sings. “I made a list, but nobody checked it / I made a wish that you might get it right / But if you don’t, and I see something that I like / This year I’m buying gifts for me.”
“Gifts For Me” arrives as Trainor prepares to release another new album, Toy With Me, next spring. She gave a first taste of the project last week with the lead single “Still Don’t Care.” Much like “Gifts for Me,” the song is written from a perspective of independence and not letting others bog her down.
Toy With Me is set for release on April 24. The Get In Girl Tour in support of the album kicks off June 12 in Clarkston, Mississippi and wraps up Aug. 15 in Los Angeles.