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"Been Like This" is a song by American singer-songwriters Meghan Trainor and T-Pain from the former's sixth major-label studio album, Timeless (2024). They co-wrote the song with Kurt Thum, Trainor's brother Ryan, and its producers, Gian Stone and Grant Boutin. Epic Records released it as the album's lead single on March 14, 2024. A doo-wop song with contemporary influences, it incorporates a jazz intro and trumpet melody and has lyrics about confidence.
"Been Like This" reached numbers 15 and 24 on the Adult Pop Airplay and Pop Airplay charts in the US, respectively. The song also peaked at number 40 in the UK and number 51 in Ireland. Phillip R Lopez and Lauren Dunn directed its music video, which was choreographed by Charm La'Donna. It features Trainor alongside background dancers, performing a dance routine afront a space-themed background. She sang the song during the 22nd season of American Idol, on Today and Capital's Summertime Ball, and she included it on the set list of her 2024 concert tour, the Timeless Tour.
After rising to mainstream popularity, Meghan Trainor cited T-Pain as one of her biggest influences in a 2014 interview: "Everything is upbeat and happy; there's no ballads and it's catchy". After Trainor's popularity waned in the lead-up to the release of her third major-label studio album, Treat Myself (2020), she decided to return to the doo-wop sound of her song "Title" (2014) with her fifth major-label studio album, Takin' It Back (2022). The album included the single "Made You Look", which went viral on TikTok. It became Trainor's first song since 2016 to enter the top 40 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and reached the top 10 in several other countries.
Trainor had been a fan of T-Pain for years, which he reciprocated. T-Pain began seeking out the help of her husband, Daryl Sabara, and her manager, to bring about a meeting in 2023: "I worked with Meghan's husband and manager for months trying to surprise her for her birthday." Subsequently, Trainor wrote the song "Been Like This" with Faheem Najm, Kurt Thum, her brother Ryan, and its producers, Gian Stone and Grant Boutin. T-Pain described the song as "the collab you never knew you wanted but needed" and further reflected on its creation: "I think we came together in a way that's a perfect mesh of styles that will get everybody ready for us to work together again real soon." He later also appeared as a featured artist on Trainor's song "Love on Hold".
"Been Like This" is two minutes and 25 seconds long. Stone and Boutin produced the song and provided background vocals, and they programmed it with Thum. Trainor's brother Justin handled engineering. Tom Norris mixed the song, and Randy Merrill mastered it.
"Been Like This" begins with a jazz-influenced intro, which is contrasted by a "trumpet counter melody" through the rest of the song. Trainor combines retro musical styles with hip-hop beats and synthesizers. According to Uproxx's Derrick Rossignol, the song "brings vintage doo-wop sounds to present day in a poppy and fun way", and The Times's Ed Potton stated it "blends doo-wop with the Charleston". Mike DeWald of Riff likened the "memorable toe-tapping rhythm" of "Been Like This" to the work of Andy Grammer and believed T-Pain assumed a classic style that strayed from his usual music.
In the lyrics of "Been Like This", Trainor compliments herself and asserts her confidence: "She's cute and she's classy, thick, bold and sassy / She knows what she do when she moves". She references her 2014 single "All About That Bass" with the lyrics "Ooh-wee, she got that booty / That type of boom-boom, that bass that I like". T-Pain raps the second verse included in the song, describing himself as "filthy rich" and mentioning the Grammy Awards he has won.
Trainor and T-Pain released "Been Like This" as the lead single from the former's upcoming sixth major-label studio album, Timeless (2024), on March 14, 2024. Sony Music serviced the song for radio airplay in Italy on March 22. Following its release, Trainor bought a page-length advertisement in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, thanking T-Pain for being her "favorite artist of all time" and his musicality and lyricism. He uploaded a TikTok video expressing his elation and appreciation: "This is the craziest shit that anybody's ever done, period. Look, it's the actual fucking newspaper, bro!" Trainor performed "Been Like This" alongside "To the Moon" during the 22nd season of American Idol on May 5, 2024, and on Today on June 7, 2024. She reprised "Been Like This" on Capital's Summertime Ball and included it on the set list of her 2024 concert tour, the Timeless Tour. Trainor also sang it at the 2024 KIIS-FM Jingle Ball.
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Been Like This
"Been Like This" is a song by American singer-songwriters Meghan Trainor and T-Pain from the former's sixth major-label studio album, Timeless (2024). They co-wrote the song with Kurt Thum, Trainor's brother Ryan, and its producers, Gian Stone and Grant Boutin. Epic Records released it as the album's lead single on March 14, 2024. A doo-wop song with contemporary influences, it incorporates a jazz intro and trumpet melody and has lyrics about confidence.
"Been Like This" reached numbers 15 and 24 on the Adult Pop Airplay and Pop Airplay charts in the US, respectively. The song also peaked at number 40 in the UK and number 51 in Ireland. Phillip R Lopez and Lauren Dunn directed its music video, which was choreographed by Charm La'Donna. It features Trainor alongside background dancers, performing a dance routine afront a space-themed background. She sang the song during the 22nd season of American Idol, on Today and Capital's Summertime Ball, and she included it on the set list of her 2024 concert tour, the Timeless Tour.
After rising to mainstream popularity, Meghan Trainor cited T-Pain as one of her biggest influences in a 2014 interview: "Everything is upbeat and happy; there's no ballads and it's catchy". After Trainor's popularity waned in the lead-up to the release of her third major-label studio album, Treat Myself (2020), she decided to return to the doo-wop sound of her song "Title" (2014) with her fifth major-label studio album, Takin' It Back (2022). The album included the single "Made You Look", which went viral on TikTok. It became Trainor's first song since 2016 to enter the top 40 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and reached the top 10 in several other countries.
Trainor had been a fan of T-Pain for years, which he reciprocated. T-Pain began seeking out the help of her husband, Daryl Sabara, and her manager, to bring about a meeting in 2023: "I worked with Meghan's husband and manager for months trying to surprise her for her birthday." Subsequently, Trainor wrote the song "Been Like This" with Faheem Najm, Kurt Thum, her brother Ryan, and its producers, Gian Stone and Grant Boutin. T-Pain described the song as "the collab you never knew you wanted but needed" and further reflected on its creation: "I think we came together in a way that's a perfect mesh of styles that will get everybody ready for us to work together again real soon." He later also appeared as a featured artist on Trainor's song "Love on Hold".
"Been Like This" is two minutes and 25 seconds long. Stone and Boutin produced the song and provided background vocals, and they programmed it with Thum. Trainor's brother Justin handled engineering. Tom Norris mixed the song, and Randy Merrill mastered it.
"Been Like This" begins with a jazz-influenced intro, which is contrasted by a "trumpet counter melody" through the rest of the song. Trainor combines retro musical styles with hip-hop beats and synthesizers. According to Uproxx's Derrick Rossignol, the song "brings vintage doo-wop sounds to present day in a poppy and fun way", and The Times's Ed Potton stated it "blends doo-wop with the Charleston". Mike DeWald of Riff likened the "memorable toe-tapping rhythm" of "Been Like This" to the work of Andy Grammer and believed T-Pain assumed a classic style that strayed from his usual music.
In the lyrics of "Been Like This", Trainor compliments herself and asserts her confidence: "She's cute and she's classy, thick, bold and sassy / She knows what she do when she moves". She references her 2014 single "All About That Bass" with the lyrics "Ooh-wee, she got that booty / That type of boom-boom, that bass that I like". T-Pain raps the second verse included in the song, describing himself as "filthy rich" and mentioning the Grammy Awards he has won.
Trainor and T-Pain released "Been Like This" as the lead single from the former's upcoming sixth major-label studio album, Timeless (2024), on March 14, 2024. Sony Music serviced the song for radio airplay in Italy on March 22. Following its release, Trainor bought a page-length advertisement in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, thanking T-Pain for being her "favorite artist of all time" and his musicality and lyricism. He uploaded a TikTok video expressing his elation and appreciation: "This is the craziest shit that anybody's ever done, period. Look, it's the actual fucking newspaper, bro!" Trainor performed "Been Like This" alongside "To the Moon" during the 22nd season of American Idol on May 5, 2024, and on Today on June 7, 2024. She reprised "Been Like This" on Capital's Summertime Ball and included it on the set list of her 2024 concert tour, the Timeless Tour. Trainor also sang it at the 2024 KIIS-FM Jingle Ball.