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Takin' It Back
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Takin' It Back is the fifth major-label studio album by American singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor. Epic Records released it on October 21, 2022. Trainor worked with producers including Federico Vindver and Gian Stone, and featured artists like Teddy Swims and Natti Natasha. Takin' It Back is a doo-wop and bubblegum pop album about motherhood and self-acceptance, which Trainor conceived as a return to the sound of her album Title (2015) after its title track went viral on TikTok. Trainor promoted the former with televised performances and two singles, "Bad for Me" and "Made You Look". The latter peaked at number 11 in the US, and reached the top 10 in several other countries. Reviewers thought Takin' It Back showcased Trainor's maturity, growth, and musicality, but they were divided on whether it was a progression from her earlier work. The album debuted at number 16 on the US Billboard 200. Its deluxe edition was supported by the single "Mother". (This article is part of two featured topics: Takin' It Back and Meghan Trainor albums.) (Full article...)
- Most recent similar article(s): Weezer's Pinkerton is scheduled for September 24.
- Main editors: MaranoFan
- Promoted: June 11, 2023
- Reasons for nomination: 2nd anniversary of release. The album shares its release date with Midnights, which I expect to get the date next year, so that is why I am interested in getting it to run this year. It feels fair at a five-month gap from the last Trainor TFA and it is not feasible to space these out by a year.
- Support as nominator. NØ 20:21, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support - Unfortunate that Red and this album have release anniversaries within 1 day of each other (albeit 10 years apart)! Still going to support as you're both the author and nominator, and of course on the basis that this is a great body of work. Decision of promotion will ultimately be at the discretion of the coordinators, but I thought it'd be worth it to back this regardless. joeyquism (talk) 20:36, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose - 2nd Anniversary is nothing special, plus and there's already been two Megan Trainor albums on TFA already this year . Recent pop-culture articles are more likely to have a fanbase to make FA and to get them onto TFA versus older music which might be forgotten. That represents a systematic bias towards recent events and pop-culture, which we should be aware of and try to counter-act by balancing out recent pop-culture against the greater history of pop-culture. Albums should aim for 10th, 20th, 30th, etc anniversaries which also naturally help space articles out and balance them out more. Harizotoh9 (talk) 06:10, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
- We allow articles to re-run after five years but albums should wait for 10 years to go on the main page for the first time...? There is something wrong with that and it seriously disincentivizes improvement of pop culture content. Should they just never re-run then? Are you going to oppose Pinkerton already scheduled in September, which literally already ran in 2011?--NØ 07:22, 31 July 2024 (UTC)