Made You Look (Meghan Trainor song)

(pictured in 2022), inspired some lyrics for "Made You Look".|alt=Daryl Sabara in a cap, t-shirt, and jacket, looking towards his right side Trainor achieved commercial success with her debut major-label studio album, Title (2015), which produced three top-10 singles on the US Billboard Hot 100. She struggled while creating her third album on a label, Treat Myself (2020), rewriting it four times in an attempt to respond to market shifts in the music industry after the preceding singles underperformed. After the song "Title" attained viral popularity on video-sharing service TikTok in 2021, Trainor announced her intention to pivot to its doo-wop sound on her fifth major-label studio album. She stated that the elevated emotions and strength from her pregnancy helped her build trust in her songwriting instincts. TikTok was highly influential on Trainor's creative process for the album, and she began writing material that would resonate with audiences on it. She gained popularity on the platform while regularly sharing clips and other content with influencer Chris Olsen. Trainor released the single "Bad for Me" in June 2022. Trainor wrote "Made You Look" alongside songwriter Sean Douglas and its producer, Federico Vindver. Trainor came up with the lines "I'll make you double take / Soon as I walk away / Call up your chiropractor just in case your neck break", as a reference to how her husband, Daryl Sabara, bends his neck to look at her when she leaves a room. Other lyrics were inspired by the things he does to treat her well. Wanting to create another "self-confident banger that [she] always do[es] on [her] albums", Trainor studied the relatability of her song "All About That Bass" (2014) while writing the track. "Made You Look" was serviced to hot adult contemporary radio stations in the United States, as the second single from ''Takin' It Back'' (2022), on October 31, 2022. "Made You Look" was supported by a Joel Corry remix on December 31, 2022, and its instrumental and sped-up versions in January 2023. Petras added new ad libs and high notes during her verse on it. She recorded her vocals in Trainor's home studio, and recalled the experience: "I had 'Made You Look' stuck in my head for months, [...] then when I got asked to jump on it, I was really, really excited. I've never worked with an artist who wanted to track me and comp my vocals and do it all together." ==Composition and lyrics==

"Made You Look" is two minutes and 14 seconds long. Vindver produced, programmed, and engineered the song. He plays the keyboards and percussion, Jesse McGinty plays the baritone saxophone and trombone, and Mike Cordone plays the trumpet. Jeremie Inhaber mixed the song, and Randy Merrill mastered it at Sterling Sound in New York City. Vindver incorporated horns into the song's instrumentation to achieve the style. "Made You Look" has a call and response hook; Peter Piatkowski of PopMatters described it as a "spiritual sequel" to "All About That Bass" due to their shared "pouty, surly delivery and the girl group arrangement". The lyrics of "Made You Look" discuss the theme of self-love; Trainor encourages her female listeners to champion their natural beauty and confidence. Trainor declares that onlookers would find her walk jaw-dropping and become obsessed with her once they "get a taste"; she also uses the slang term "14-karat cake" to refer to her backside. ==Critical reception==

Music critics compared "Made You Look" to Trainor's past songs. AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine cited the song's inclusion of fashion house names as an example of moments on ''Takin' It Back where her devotion to bringing back Titles spirit means "that the attitude and melody can occasionally seem preserved in amber". Rolling Stone'' placed it at number 69 on their list of 2022's best songs, and Tomás Mier positively compared it to Trainor's previous work and praised the "unforgettable lyrics and catchy production". The flirtatious approach of "Made You Look" was discussed by critics. Martina Inchingolo of the Associated Press thought Trainor sounded "loud[er] and sexier" on the song. Writing for Renowned for Sound, Max Akass believed she displayed a "cheeky, flirty attitude" on it, which made for uncomplicated but efficacious pop music. Mier wrote that Petras delivered a "welcome sexy verse" on her remix of "Made You Look". ==Commercial performance==

"Made You Look" was Trainor's highest-charting single in years, which some media outlets referred to as a "comeback" for her. The song debuted at number 95 on the US Billboard Hot 100 issued for November 5, 2022. It earned 9.3 millions streams in its second tracking week and entered the Streaming Songs chart at number 49, Trainor's first entry since "Me Too" (2016). It peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became her first song to enter its top 40 also since "Me Too". In Canada, "Made You Look" reached number seven on the Canadian Hot 100 and was certified 4× Platinum by Music Canada. It received a double Platinum certification in the United Kingdom from the British Phonographic Industry. number seven in Norway, and number eight in Malaysia. The song also charted at number 11 in Hungary, number 13 in Croatia and the Netherlands, number 15 in Paraguay, number 16 in Austria, and number 19 in Switzerland. It received a Diamond certification in Brazil, 2× Platinum in Hungary, Platinum in Austria, Denmark, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain, and Switzerland, and Gold in Belgium, France, Portugal, and Sweden. ==Music video and promotion==

The music video for "Made You Look" was released on October 20, 2022, exclusive to Candy Crush Saga for 24 hours, followed by a wide release the following day. Trainor stated that she wanted to achieve a superior and more saturated version of the video for "All About That Bass" by employing vivid and ebullient colors in it. It depicts her showing outfits at a press conference, driving in a car, and dancing in a room. Cameos include TikTok influencers Hoying, JoJo Siwa, Drew Afualo, and Olsen as dancers, and Sabara as the car driver. An alternate version of the video featuring only Trainor's dance sequence was later released, titled "Made You Look (Again)". An online dance challenge choreographed by TikTok users Brookie and Jessie set to "Made You Look" became a trend on the platform, following which around two million user-generated videos also used the song. Three days later, Trainor reprised the song on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. She sang it as a medley with "Here Comes Santa Claus" for The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration on November 27, 2022. On December 13, 2022, Trainor performed "Made You Look" on The Drew Barrymore Show. She reprised the song during the eighth season of Australian Idol on February 27, 2023. In 2024, Trainor sang it for The Today Shows Citi concert series and Capital's Summertime Ball, and she included it as the last song on the set list of her concert tour, the Timeless Tour, as the encore. ==Credits and personnel==

Credits are adapted from the liner notes of ''Takin' It Back''. • Federico Vindver – producer, songwriter, programming, engineering, keyboards, percussion • Meghan Trainor – songwriter • Sean Douglas – songwriter • Jesse McGinty – baritone saxophone, trombone • Mike Cordone – trumpet • Randy Merrill – mastering • Jeremie Inhaber – mixing ==Charts==

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