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. Inspired by the sound of her album Title (2015) after its title track went viral on TikTok, Takin' It Back is a doo-wop and bubblegum-pop album about motherhood and self-acceptance. Trainor promoted the latter 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.).

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1867:

The first and second of three treaties were signed near Medicine Lodge, Kansas, between the United States federal government and several Native American tribes in the Great Plains, requiring them to relocate to areas in present-day western Oklahoma. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_Lodge_Treaty

1941:

World War II: German soldiers massacred nearly 2,800 Serbs in Kragujevac in reprisal for insurgent attacks in the district of Gornji Milanovac. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kragujevac_massacre

1968:

At the height of the Japanese university protests, protesters occupied Shinjuku Station in Tokyo and clashed violently with police. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinjuku_riot

1994:

In Seoul, South Korea, 32 people were killed and 17 others injured when a span of the Seongsu Bridge collapsed (pictured). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seongsu_Bridge_disaster

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

apple: 1. A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus. 2. The fruit of the tree Malus domestica, chiefly with a green, red, or yellow skin, cultivated in temperate climates for cidermaking, cooking, and eating. 3. Often with a qualifying word: any fruit or vegetable, or any other thing (such as a cone or gall) produced by a plant, especially if from a tree and similar to the fruit of Malus domestica (sense 1.1). 4. Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica (sense 1.1) in shape (such as a ball, breast, or globe) or colour. 5. Short for Adam's apple (“the lump in the throat, usually more noticeable in men than in women; the laryngeal prominence”). 6. Short for apple-green (“a bright green colour with a light tint of yellow, like that of a Granny Smith apple”). apple: 7. (historical) Short for apple of the eye (“the pupil, or pupil and iris, of the eye, originally believed to be spherical; also, the eyeball”). 8. (informal) The round, fleshy part of a cheek between the eye and the corner of the mouth when a person is smiling. 9. (geometry) The surface of revolution of a circular arc of an angle greater than 180° rotated about the straight line passing through the arc's two endpoints. 10. (smoking) In full apple bowl: a round bowl of a tobacco pipe; also, a tobacco pipe with such a bowl. 11. (obsolete, baseball, slang) In full old apple: a baseball. 12. (Christianity) According to postbiblical Christian tradition, the fruit of the tree of knowledge which was eaten by Adam and Eve despite God commanding them not to do so; the forbidden fruit. 13. (obsolete, botany) Synonym of pome (“a type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels”) 14. 15. A tree of the genus Malus; especially Malus domestica which is cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree. 16. Synonym of applewood (“the wood of the apple tree”) [...] 17. (transitive) To make (something) appear like an apple (noun sense 1.1). 18. (intransitive) 19. To become like an apple. 20. (UK, dialectal, rare) To collect fir-cones. 21. (obsolete except UK, dialectal) Of a flower bud or vegetable (especially a root vegetable): to grow into the shape of an apple. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apple

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

True myth may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake one is. You look at it and it vanishes. You look at the Blond Hero — really look — and he turns into a gerbil. But you look at Apollo, and he looks back at you. The poet Rilke looked at a statue of Apollo about fifty years ago, and Apollo spoke to him. “You must change your life,” he said. When true myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.   --Ursula K. Le Guin https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin