--- title: Jimmy Kimmel Live: Meghan Trainor Performs Thanksgiving Songs description: Meghan Trainor sings new Thanksgiving classics on "Jimmy Kimmel Live." canonical: https://time.com/3607763/jimmy-kimmel-meghan-trainor-thanksgiving-songs/ author: Eliza Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-26T17:32:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:14:51.980Z og:title: Watch Meghan Trainor Perform Hilarious Thanksgiving-Themed Carols on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' og:description: “Whoa — Why Did Linda Bring Kevin?” is sure to become a new holiday classic og:url: https://time.com/3607763/jimmy-kimmel-meghan-trainor-thanksgiving-songs/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Meghan Trainor Perform Hilarious Thanksgiving-Themed Carols on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' twitter:description: “Whoa — Why Did Linda Bring Kevin?” is sure to become a new holiday classic twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Meghan Trainor Performs New Thanksgiving Classic Songs on _Jimmy Kimmel Live_ > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-brief-2026q3/newsletters?i=0c65a8db-9757-4643-88bb-6ecdde8a55dd&cr=time-nl-brief-2026q3-v1)  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Nov 26, 2014 5:32 PM UTC  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Nov 26, 2014 5:32 PM UTC Last night, Jimmy Kimmel rightly pointed out the serious lack of songs about Thanksgiving, despite the existence of an entire genre of Christmas music. To fill this gap, he invited Meghan Trainor — whose number one single “All About That Bass” is finally seeing the [last](http://time.com/3536701/all-about-that-bass/) of its [parodies](http://time.com/3309856/all-about-that-bass-performed-on-a-bass/) — to create some brand new turkey day classics. Dressed in her best autumn sweater, Trainor tackles many of the subjects that make Thanksgiving a memorable day, if not always in a good way: travel delays, racist family members, politics at the dinner table, and other holiday plights that only a heaping helping of mashed potatoes can begin to compensate for. As the faux-infomercial unveils more song titles, including the spot-on “I Would Like to Leave (To Get Drunk with My Friends),” it becomes apparent that Thanksgiving is perhaps best enjoyed sans music. 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