Draft:To the Moon (Meghan Trainor song)

"To the Moon" is an upcoming song by American singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor from her forthcoming sixth major-label studio album, Timeless (2024). Epic Records is scheduled to release it as the album's second single on May 3, 2024. It will serve as the follow-up to the lead single, "Been Like This" (2024), which was released in March 2024.

Background
After rising to mainstream popularity, Meghan Trainor cited T-Pain as one of her biggest influences in a 2014 interview: "Everything is upbeat and happy; there's no ballads and it's catchy". After Trainor's popularity waned in the lead-up to the release of her third major-label studio album, Treat Myself (2020), she decided to return to the doo-wop sound of her song "Title" (2014) with her fifth major-label studio album, Takin' It Back (2022). The album included the single "Made You Look", which went viral on TikTok. It became Trainor's first song since 2016 to enter the top 40 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and reached the top 10 in several other countries.

Trainor had been a fan of T-Pain for years, which he reciprocated. T-Pain began seeking out the help of her husband, Daryl Sabara, and her manager, to bring about a meeting in 2023: "I worked with Meghan's husband and manager for months trying to surprise her for her birthday." Subsequently, Trainor wrote the song "Been Like This" with Faheem Najm, Kurt Thum, her brother Ryan, and its producers, Gian Stone and Grant Boutin. T-Pain described the song as "the collab you never knew you wanted but needed" and further reflected on its creation: "I think we came together in a way that's a perfect mesh of styles that will get everybody ready for us to work together again real soon." After teasing her upcoming sixth major-label studio album, Timeless (2024), in the lead-up to 2024, Trainor and T-Pain released "Been Like This" as a single on March 14, 2024. In the outro of its music video, another song was teased. On April 5, 2024, Trainor revealed that the song is titled "To the Moon". It will be released as the second single from the album on May 3, 2024.

Credits and personnel
Credits adapted from Tidal.
 * Federico Vindver – producer, engineer, songwriter, programming, keyboards
 * Jacob Kasher Hindlin – songwriter
 * Meghan Trainor – songwriter
 * Justin Trainor – engineer
 * Randy Merrill – mastering
 * Tom Norris – mixing