Music

Meghan Trainor bans her new video because her body was digitally altered

by Jeremy Mersereau

Retro-style pop singer and body-image evangelist Meghan Trainor’s second album, Thank You, is due out this Friday. A music video for the first single “Me Too” dropped yesterday… for a few precious hours, until it was pulled on Trainor’s orders. She accused the video’s producers of extensively digitally altering her body to make her appear skinnier throughout.

“They Photoshopped the crap out of me and I’m sick of it,” the singer said in a Snapchat video addressed to her fans, “My waist is not that teeny, I had a bomb waist that night, I don’t know why they didn’t like my waist.”

“I didn’t approve that video, and it went out to the world, so I’m embarrassed,” Trainor continued, saying that she told the video’s producers to remove any waist-editing “ASAP Rocky.” (ugh)

Trainor told USA Today that her fans were the first to notice the waist shrinkage, and then she “went to the video and was like, ‘Oh my god.’ I texted the editors like, ‘I never asked you to touch my waist. I want my waist back.”

I wonder what plug-in the video’s editor used? Just imagine the features Movie ReShape has after six years of development.

There’s no official word on when the re-un-edited “Me Too” video will hit the internet again, though it could be as early as today. Trainor says she plans to share comparison shots from the two versions of the video when it does, so look forward to that.

[h/t USA Today]