{"id":2448773,"date":"2019-09-16T07:30:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T13:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=884396"},"modified":"2019-09-16T07:30:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T13:30:18","slug":"meghan-trainor-preps-friends-theme-song-cover-for-shows-25th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/meghan-trainor-preps-friends-theme-song-cover-for-shows-25th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Trainor Preps \u2018Friends\u2019 Theme Song Cover for Show\u2019s 25th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

In honor of the upcoming 25th anniversary of Friends<\/a><\/em> on September 22nd, Meghan Trainor<\/a> will release a cover of the Rembrandts\u2019 \u201cI\u2019ll Be There For You,\u201d the show\u2019s beloved theme song. The pop star\u2019s rendition will drop on the 22nd at 8:30 p.m. ET on iHeart Radio\u2019s Z100 \u2014 the exact time the show debuted on NBC \u2014 and will coincide with an Empire State Building light-up of blue, yellow, and red, a reference to the colors of the show\u2019s logo.<\/p>\n

Warner Brothers approached Trainor, a self-described diehard Friends<\/em> fan,  to cover the theme song. \u201cI\u2019ve seen every episode multiple times now,\u201d she tells Rolling Stone.<\/em> \u201cI can\u2019t believe they even thought of me to sing this cover. It was a dream come true.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll Be There For You\u201d was co-written by the Rembrandts, Friends<\/em> creators Marta Kauffman<\/a> and David Crane, Kauffman\u2019s husband Michael Skloff and songwriter Alee Willis. With a guitar riff inspired by the Beatles and an intro that resembles the Monkees\u2019 \u201cPleasant Valley Sunday,\u201d<\/a> the theme song is notable for its energetic handclaps that occur between each line. \u201cI hope I make them proud,\u201d Trainor says, \u201cBecause they\u2019re the ones that wrote this beautiful song and they\u2019re legends.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trainor tried to make her cover sound exactly like the original. In order to do that, she asked her family to sing background with her. \u201cI actually cut the vocals in my backyard in my studio, with my little brother, my older brother, my husband, and my best friend. And we were just all laughing and in disbelief. Like, \u2018How is this really happening?\u2019 It was a big party, the best night.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Oddly enough, Trainor\u2019s husband Daryl Sabara (best known for his role as Juni Cortez in Spy Kids<\/em>) appeared as a guest star in the show\u2019s 10th and final season. He plays Owen, the child Chandler accidentally tells he\u2019s adopted.<\/a> \u201cWhen he showed me that episode and I remembered it was him, I freaked out,\u201d Trainor says. \u201cIt plays on airplanes when we travel, and we always pop it on and we still scream every time.\u201d Sabara takes the phone from Trainor to share his memories of the show. \u201cI remember everyone being super nice,\u201d he says. \u201cThey\u2019d take off Friday nights and they brought In-N-Out to the set. I remember watching Brad Pitt eat a burger. Everyone was a huge family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trainor\u2019s favorite Friends<\/em> episodes are the ones that feature Ross and Rachel\u2019s on-and-off-again relationship. \u201cI sound like everybody,\u201d she prefaces, \u201cBut when Ross and Rachel finally get together [in Season 2] and then they break up [in Season 3] and then she writes that whole essay, the 18 pages front and back of her confession to Ross [in Season 4] and Ross was too tired to read it. I\u2019m always a Ross and Rachel fan, and I always wanted them to get back together.\u201d<\/p>\n

She isn\u2019t sure why so many millennials are increasingly attracted to Friends<\/em>, but she expects it\u2019s the show\u2019s comforting, relatable nature. \u201cOn all levels \u2014 relationship levels, personal levels \u2014 it\u2019s so relatable and it makes you feel good watching it,\u201d she explains. \u201cYou can laugh and cry. It\u2019s just a perfect show.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last week, Trainor dropped \u201cGenetics,\u201d<\/a> a buoyant track featured in the new Netflix film Tall Girl.<\/em> \u201cIt\u2019s all about loving yourself because you came from beautiful parents,\u201d she says. \u201cBut it\u2019s also a dance bop!\u201d The song will be released off Trainor\u2019s third LP Treat Myself<\/em>, which is expected to be out early next year.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In honor of the upcoming 25th anniversary of Friends on September 22nd, Meghan Trainor will release a cover of the Rembrandts\u2019 \u201cI\u2019ll Be There For You,\u201d the show\u2019s beloved theme song. The pop star\u2019s rendition will drop on the 22nd at 8:30 p.m. ET on iHeart Radio\u2019s Z100 \u2014 the exact time the show debuted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 20:30:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}