editor’s pov

When I chatted with Meghan Trainor, I did something I wouldn’t recommend as an interview tactic: I told her that her new single “No” is annoying—annoyingly catchy, I meant! Instead of hanging up on me, she said that it made her glad: “My goal is to annoy people!” Trainor laughed, but I think that her response speaks volumes about the artist she is growing into: unapologetically entertaining and confident enough in her (immense) gifts to proudly court the career-making power of the earworm. sarah laing