Nice to Meet Ya (Meghan Trainor song)

"Nice to Meet Ya" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor from her third major-label studio album, Treat Myself (2020), featuring the Trinidadian-born rapper Nicki Minaj.

Trainor and Minaj wrote it with the songwriter Scott Harris and Raul Cubina and Mark Williams from its production duo, Ojivolta.

Mathew Cullen directed the music video for "Nice to Meet Ya", which was inspired by Working Girl (1988), and featured Trainor performing dance routines with her female co-workers, and a pink-haired Minaj.

Meghan Trainor began recording songs for her third major-label studio album, Treat Myself (2020), while still recovering from her second vocal cord surgery in 2017.

After completing four albums worth of material in an attempt to adapt to changing trends in the music industry, she conceived the final version of Treat Myself as a "pop record that feel[s] relevant in an era when hip-hop reigns".

[2] Trainor wrote "Nice to Meet Ya" with Raul Cubina, Mark Williams, Scott Harris, and Nicki Minaj.

[4] Regarding Minaj featuring on "Nice to Meet Ya", Trainor recalled being a fan of hers since middle school and stated that it was "the coolest thing of all times".

[16] Writing for The Arts Desk, Russ Coffey stated that "Nice to Meet Ya" pulls off outrageous hip-hop beats through its sheer chutzpah.

[19] Pitchfork's Dani Blum named the song as the "most tolerable track" on Treat Myself, stating that it is engineered to be a banger but its "whisper of a chorus" is "harsh and irritating" and Minaj's verse is "mediocre".

[28][29] Trainor described the experience of the music video shoot, which was inspired by the American film Working Girl (1988),[29] as "[her] moment", stating that it made her more nervous than being at the Grammys.

Idolator's Mike Nied wrote that the video is brimming with bold costumes, a bit of choreography and so much personality, adding that it makes the song "even better".

[14] Writing for Billboard, Heran Mamo stated that "Trainor Industries", the fictitious workplace in the music video, stayed booked and busy for the successful shoot.

[33] The performance featured a choreographed office space routine, where a group of backup dancers joined the singer to mirror the music video for "Nice to Meet Ya".