Name: Meghan Trainor Reacts to Footage of Herself Singing with Her Soca Band at Age 13
Uploaded: 2020-03-07T16:12:58.000Z
Duration: 6 min 7 s
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Modal verbs - A2

-This dress is so tight, but it's so worth it!

Oh, my gosh. It is worth -- It looks gorgeous.

-Thank you. -We did some research on you,

and we found out that you do -- you actually are used to

I want to say, do you remember a band called Island Fusion.

but she's a soca queen. It's hilarious. She's great.

We would play, like, soca music, pop music,

and then I would go in and play my own original pop songs.

And I'm like 15, like -- -They were like,

Let's play some cover songs!" -I was like, let's not.

-Literally, I was like, "Can we cut my originals?

This is embarrassing. No one knows these songs."

That's what happened. -That's what happened.

-How many people -- How many people would be at these gigs?

-Seven and my nana. My nana -- my nana was like --

-Shout-out to the Chicken Box in Nantucket.

-It's a very small -- But it's an awesome place.

And there's chicken wire all over the back.

"Dude, you want to go and have drinks and whatever at --"

Because we were there and we were leaving.

It was probably like 11:30 or something in the morning.

It's not even open." They go, "Oh, it's open."

-Dude, this place is pretty real deal, man.

It's awesome. You're a legend over there, pal.

-I don't know. I haven't been in so long.

-Oh, you got to go back. You have to go back.

We sang a lot of the pop songs at that time.

So, like, Ne-Yo. -Did you ever do Pitbull?

-..."Give Me Everything." Take a look at this.

♪ For all we know, we might not get tomorrow ♪

-I mean, come on. [ Cheers and applause ]

-In the Chicken Box. -I have always been doing this.

-She was cute. You hear how nervous she was?

-Yeah. My dad actually taught music on Nantucket.

so all of my friends -- their parents would be, like,

"Your dad was my teacher," and I was like, "Oh, no."

-Yeah, dad would play, like, soul and funk,

and he thought he was James Brown for a while.

So I had the best -- And then, I would have my soca songs.