“These songs are like, ‘Y’all, I’m struggling.

This is real, but we’re all in this together.

Who’s with me?'”

Meghan Trainor

Meghan Trainor.Lauren Dunn

These songs are like, ‘Y’all, I’m struggling.

This is real, but we’re all in this together.

Who’s with me?’

Meghan Trainor

Meghan Trainor’s new album, ‘Takin’ It Back’.

It’s just more real and raw."

It just kind of happened, and it was a great therapy session."

Show me love like my husband does.'

Or I’ll go in with, ‘Don’t I make it look easy?

Because this s— is not easy, but I make it look good, right?'"

Other countries get a whole year for both parents."

“I have my family literally living in my house with me, and everyone here.

But I think of single moms and single working moms and believe they are the actual heroes in life.

They are superheroes walking among us.”

She continues, “I can barely go pee and I have a husband and my mom is here.

I’m like, ‘How do they get all this done?’

I can’t fathom it.”

Motherhood has also taught her how “precious” life is.

“Like when he was a week old, I cried every time I thought anything bad could happen.

Everything is just extra important.

It’s a wake-up call.”

While Trainor will be hard at work promotingTakin’ It Backthis fall, touring isn’t in the cards.

Invoking the names of working-mom musicians like Pink and Beyonce (“I know!

She’s amazing, like a whole different breed!

Says Trainor, “Everyone keeps saying, ‘Just get pregnant, start your family.’

They ask me what success means to me.

That’s what I want.”