--- title: All About That Bass by Meghan Trainor Without Any Treble: Video description: All About That Bass does not sound nearly as good without any treble canonical: https://time.com/3393370/all-about-that-bass-without-treble/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-17T14:58:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:13:15.821Z og:title: Here's What 'All About That Bass' Sounds Like Without Any Treble og:description: Hint: pretty terrible og:url: https://time.com/3393370/all-about-that-bass-without-treble/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8ff6646d1e7f870d/6986a3c63bc9992a7e1a556a/screen-shot-2014-09-17-at-10-33-09-am.png?branch=production&width=995&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 995 og:image:height: 560 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-09-17 at 10.33.09 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's What 'All About That Bass' Sounds Like Without Any Treble twitter:description: Hint: pretty terrible twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8ff6646d1e7f870d/6986a3c63bc9992a7e1a556a/screen-shot-2014-09-17-at-10-33-09-am.png?branch=production&width=995&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'All About That Bass' Actually Sounds Really Terrible Without Any Treble > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Sep 17, 2014 2:58 PM UTC  by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Sep 17, 2014 2:58 PM UTC You’ve probably heard “All About That Bass” — Meghan Trainor’s total earworm of a late-summer jam — plenty of times by now, so you might have noticed her assertion that she’s “all about that bass — no treble.” Well, one musician (who goes by the name [Here Comes Brooklyn](https://www.youtube.com/user/herecomesbrooklyn)) took that assertion literally and decided to see what the song would sound like if Trainor were indeed against including any treble. As it turns out, the track sounds pretty awful without it. This is why we shouldn’t speak in absolutes. The song does, however, sound pretty great played [on an upright bass](http://time.com/3309856/all-about-that-bass-performed-on-a-bass/): ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3393370/all-about-that-bass-without-treble/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3393370/all-about-that-bass-without-treble/"},"headline":"'All About That Bass' Actually Sounds Really Terrible Without Any Treble","datePublished":"2014-09-17T14:58:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:13:15.821Z","description":"Looks like Meghan Trainor isn't ALL about that bass after all","url":"https://time.com/3393370/all-about-that-bass-without-treble/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","Music","meghan trainor"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8ff6646d1e7f870d/6986a3c63bc9992a7e1a556a/screen-shot-2014-09-17-at-10-33-09-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8ff6646d1e7f870d/6986a3c63bc9992a7e1a556a/screen-shot-2014-09-17-at-10-33-09-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-09-17 at 10.33.09 AM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3393370/all-about-that-bass-without-treble/","name":"'All About That Bass' Actually Sounds Really Terrible Without Any Treble"}}]}] ```